9.0
9.0
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976
as (archive footage)
George 'Gabby' Hayes
Also known as: George Francis Hayes, Gabby Hayes
Acting
Born:May 6, 1885
Died:February 9, 1969(aged 83)
Birthplace:Wellsville, New York, USA
Nationality:United States
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CommunityBiography
George Hayes is an American character actor, the most famous of Western-movie sidekicks of the 1930s and 1940s. He worked in a circus and played semi-pro baseball while a teenager. In 1914, he married Olive Ireland and the pair became successful on the vaudeville circuit. Retired in his forties, he lost much of his money in the 1929 stock market crash and was forced to return to work. He played scores of roles in Westerns and non-Westerns alike, finally in the mid-1930s settling in to an almost exclusively Western career. He gained fame as Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick Windy Halliday in films between 1936 and 1939. Leaving the Cassidy films in a salary dispute, he was legally precluded from using the Windy nickname, and so took on the sobriquet Gabby, and was so billed from about 1940. In his early films, he alternated between whiskered comic-relief sidekicks and clean-shaven bad guys, but by the later 1930s, he worked almost exclusively as a Western sidekick to stars such as John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and Randolph Scott. After his last film in 1950, he starred as the host of The Gabby Hayes Show. He died on February 9, 1969.
Filmography (191 movies)
8.0
8.0
She Who Gets Slapped
1930
as Poker Player
7.7
7.7
Red River Valley
1941
as Gabby Whittaker
7.5
7.5
Man from Cheyenne
1942
as Gabby Whittaker
7.0
7.0
Marshal of Reno
1944
as Gabby
7.0
7.0
Ridin' Down the Canyon
1942
as Gabby
6.9
6.9
Gold Is Where You Find It
1938
as Enoch
6.8
6.8
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941
as Gabby
6.8
6.8
Albuquerque
1948
as Juke
6.8
6.8
Hitch Hike Lady
1935
as Miner
6.7
6.7
Trailing North
1933
as Flash Ryan
6.5
6.5
Love Me Tonight
1932
as Grocer (uncredited)
6.5
6.5
Tall in the Saddle
1944
as Dave
6.4
6.4
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936
as Bearded Man
6.4
6.4
Trail Street
1947
as Billy Jones
6.4
6.4
The Cariboo Trail
1950
as Grizzly
6.3
6.3
Dark Command
1940
as Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
6.3
6.3
The Plainsman
1936
as Breezy
6.3
6.3
Return of the Bad Men
1948
as John Pettit
6.3
6.3
Beggars in Ermine
1934
as Joe Wilson
6.3
6.3
The Texas Rangers
1936
as Judge Snow
6.2
6.2
In Old Oklahoma
1943
as Despirit Dean
6.2
6.2
Home in Oklahoma
1946
as Gabby Whittaker
6.2
6.2
Saga of Death Valley
1939
as Gabby
6.2
6.2
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
1935
as Dr. Parker
6.0
6.0
Hidden Valley
1932
as Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat
6.0
6.0
The Return of Casey Jones
1933
as Timothy Shine
6.0
6.0
Wagons Westward
1940
as Hardtack
6.0
6.0
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
1936
as Windy Halliday
6.0
6.0
Big Business Girl
1931
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
6.0
6.0
Calling Wild Bill Elliott
1943
as Gabby Hayes
6.0
6.0
Let Freedom Ring
1939
as Pop Wilkie
6.0
6.0
Roll on Texas Moon
1946
as Gabby Whittaker
6.0
6.0
Top Speed
1930
as Western Union Clerk
6.0
6.0
Texas Buddies
1932
as Si Haller
6.0
6.0
Sally of the Subway
1932
as Police Lieutenant Paxton
6.0
6.0
Wyoming
1947
as Windy Gibson
5.9
5.9
Monte Carlo Nights
1934
as Inspector Nick Gunby
5.8
5.8
Melody Ranch
1940
as Pop Laramie
5.8
5.8
Sunset on the Desert
1942
as Gabby Whittaker
5.8
5.8
The Arizona Kid
1939
as Gabby Whittaker
5.8
5.8
$1,000 a Minute
1935
as New Deal Watson
5.7
5.7
El Paso
1949
as Pesky Tees
5.7
5.7
Badman's Territory
1946
as Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid
5.7
5.7
Romance on the Range
1942
as Gabby
5.6
5.6
Heldorado
1946
as Gabby Whittaker
5.5
5.5
Colorado
1940
as Gabby
5.5
5.5
The Carson City Kid
1940
as Gabby Whittaker
5.5
5.5
The Fighting Champ
1932
as Pete
5.5
5.5
Sunset Serenade
1942
as Gabby
5.5
5.5
North of the Rio Grande
1937
as Windy Halliday
5.5
5.5
The Big Bonanza
1944
as Hap Selby
5.5
5.5
Hopalong Rides Again
1937
as Windy Halliday
5.4
5.4
My Pal Trigger
1946
as Gabby Kendrick
5.4
5.4
Bells of Rosarita
1945
as Gabby Whittake
5.3
5.3
Honeymoon Limited
1935
as Pinkham
5.3
5.3
Mountain Music
1937
as Granpappy Burnside
5.3
5.3
Hop-a-long Cassidy
1935
as Uncle Ben
5.3
5.3
In Old Monterey
1939
as Gabby Whittaker
5.3
5.3
Rustlers' Valley
1937
as Windy Halliday
5.3
5.3
Border Devils
1932
as Squint Sanders
5.2
5.2
Riders of Destiny
1933
as Charlie Denton
5.2
5.2
Skyway
1933
as George Taylor
5.2
5.2
The Lawless Nineties
1936
as Major Carter
5.2
5.2
Lights of Old Santa Fe
1944
as Gabby Whittaker
5.2
5.2
Dragnet Patrol
1931
as Private Detective
5.1
5.1
The Lost City
1935
as Butterfield
5.0
5.0
The Ranger and the Lady
1940
as Gabby Whittaker
5.0
5.0
In Old Santa Fe
1934
as Cactus
5.0
5.0
The Untamed Breed
1948
as Windy Lucas
5.0
5.0
Smokey Smith
1935
as Blaze Bart
5.0
5.0
Under Nevada Skies
1946
as Gabby Whittaker
5.0
5.0
Nevada City
1941
as Gabby Chapman
5.0
5.0
In Old Caliente
1939
as Gabby
5.0
5.0
Man of Conquest
1939
as Lannie Upchurch
5.0
5.0
Dirigible
1931
as Parade Official (uncredited)
5.0
5.0
West of the Divide
1934
as 'Dusty'
5.0
5.0
Death Valley Manhunt
1943
as Gabby Hayes
5.0
5.0
Death Flies East
1935
as Wotkyns
5.0
5.0
Robin Hood of the Pecos
1941
as Gabriel Gabby Hornaday
5.0
5.0
Utah
1945
as Gabby Whittaker
5.0
5.0
Sunset Trail
1939
as Windy Halliday
5.0
5.0
The Man from Thunder River
1943
as Gabby Whittaker
5.0
5.0
Texas Trail
1937
as Windy Halliday
5.0
5.0
Borderland
1937
as Windy Halliday
5.0
5.0
Bar 20 Rides Again
1935
as Windy Halliday
5.0
5.0
Heart of Arizona
1938
as Windy Halliday
5.0
5.0
Song of the Trail
1936
as Dan Hobson
4.9
4.9
The Lucky Texan
1934
as Jake 'Grandy' Benson
4.8
4.8
Randy Rides Alone
1934
as - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute
4.8
4.8
For the Defense
1930
as Ben (the waiter)
4.8
4.8
Cavalier of the West
1931
as Sheriff Bill Ryan
4.7
4.7
Winner Take All
1932
as Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)
4.7
4.7
Days of Jesse James
1939
as Gabby
4.7
4.7
Wall Street Cowboy
1939
as Gabby
4.7
4.7
Blue Steel
1934
as Sheriff Jake Withers
4.7
4.7
Bar 20 Justice
1938
as Windy Halliday
4.7
4.7
Rainbow Valley
1935
as George Hale
4.7
4.7
The Eagle's Brood
1935
as Spike
4.7
4.7
House of Mystery
1934
as David Fells
4.7
4.7
Call of the Prairie
1936
as Shanghai McHenry
4.7
4.7
Klondike
1932
as Tom Ross
4.6
4.6
The Lawless Frontier
1934
as Dusty
4.6
4.6
Texas Terror
1935
as Sheriff Ed Williams
4.6
4.6
The Man from Utah
1934
as Marshal George Higgins
4.5
4.5
Ladies Crave Excitement
1935
as McCloskey
4.5
4.5
Riders of the Desert
1932
as Hashknife Brooks
4.5
4.5
Young Bill Hickok
1940
as 'Gabby' Whitaker
4.5
4.5
The Sphinx
1933
as Detective Casey
4.5
4.5
Three on the Trail
1936
as Windy Halliday
4.5
4.5
South of Santa Fe
1942
as Gabby Whittaker
4.5
4.5
'Neath the Arizona Skies
1934
as Matt Downing
4.5
4.5
Play Girl
1932
as Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)
4.5
4.5
The Brand of Hate
1934
as Bill Larkins
4.5
4.5
The Man from Hell
1934
as Banker Colonel Campbell
4.4
4.4
The Border Legion
1940
as Honest John Whittaker
4.4
4.4
The Star Packer
1934
as Matt Matlock
4.4
4.4
Bad Man of Deadwood
1941
as Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone
4.3
4.3
Broadway to Cheyenne
1932
as Walrus
4.3
4.3
The Phantom Broadcast
1933
as Police Lieutenant
4.3
4.3
Song of Arizona
1946
as Gabby Whittaker
4.3
4.3
Don't Fence Me In
1945
as Gabby Whittaker
4.3
4.3
Playing Around
1930
as Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited)
4.2
4.2
Big News
1929
as Hoffman
4.2
4.2
Jesse James at Bay
1941
as Sheriff Gabby Whitaker
4.2
4.2
Sunset in El Dorado
1945
as Gabby
4.1
4.1
In Old Cheyenne
1941
as Arapaho Brown
4.1
4.1
Mystery Liner
1934
as Joe, the Watchman
4.0
4.0
Trail Dust
1936
as Windy Halliday
4.0
4.0
Heart of the West
1936
as Windy Jenkins
4.0
4.0
Man from Oklahoma
1945
as Gabby Whittaker
4.0
4.0
City Limits
1934
as Charlie Carter
4.0
4.0
Renegade Trail
1939
as Windy Halliday
4.0
4.0
Pride of the West
1938
as Windy Halliday
4.0
4.0
Crashing Broadway
1933
as J. Talbot Thorndyke
4.0
4.0
The Man from Hell's Edges
1932
as Shamrock Cassidy
4.0
4.0
Tombstone Terror
1935
as Soupy Baxter
4.0
4.0
The Frontiersmen
1938
as Windy Halliday
4.0
4.0
The Boiling Point
1932
as George Duncan
4.0
4.0
The Headline Woman
1935
as Duffy
4.0
4.0
Rainbow Over Texas
1946
as Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker
4.0
4.0
Southward Ho!
1939
as Gabby
3.8
3.8
Young Buffalo Bill
1940
as Gabby Whittaker
3.6
3.6
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1935
as Pearson (as George Hayes)
3.0
3.0
Hills of Old Wyoming
1937
as Windy Halliday
3.0
3.0
Silver on the Sage
1939
as Windy Halliday
3.0
3.0
In Old Mexico
1938
as Windy Halliday
3.0
3.0
Mojave Firebrand
1944
as Gabby Hayes
1.7
1.7
Ship of Wanted Men
1933
as Crewman
1.5
1.5
Heart of the Golden West
1942
as Gabby
1.0
1.0
Bedlam of Beards
1934
The Shadow Gang
1934
as Matt Matlock
Next Of Kin
1934
as 'Dusty'
Claim Jumpers
1934
as Jake Benson
The House Without Children
1919
as Archibald Ponsonby
Silver Spurs
1936
as Drag Harlan
Wild Horse Mesa
1932
as Slack
Galloping Romeo
1933
as Grizzly
Bordertown Gun Fighters
1943
as Gabby Hayes
Overland Mail Robbery
1943
as Gabby
A Slip at the Switch
1932
as Deputy Smoot
Tucson Raiders
1944
as 'Gabby' Hopkins
Sons of the Pioneers
1942
as Gabby Whittaker
Along the Navajo Trail
1945
as Gabby Whittaker
Hidden Valley Outlaws
1944
as Gabby Hayes
Rodeo Rocketeers
1934
as Marshall George
Vengence is Mine
1934
as Dusty
Breed of the Border
1933
as Chuck Wiggins
The Drifter
1934
as Marvin Black
Ranger's Code
1933
as Baxter (as George Hayes)
The Gallant Fool
1933
as Dad Denton
Swifty
1935
as Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)
The Western: A Lost TV Special
1958
as Self
Valley of the Lawless
1936
as Grandpaw Jenkins
The Outlaw Tamer
1935
as Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)
Thunder Mountain
1935
as Foley
Fighting Thoroughbreds
1939
as Gramps Montrose
Self Defense
1932
as Jury Foreman
The Devil's Mate
1933
as Collins
The Nevada Buckaroo
1931
as Cherokee Williams
Rainbow Man
1929
as Bill
Wagon Tracks West
1943
as Gabby
Smiling Irish Eyes
1929
as Taxi Driver
Justice of the Range
1935
as John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson
Oklahoma Jim
1931
as Crooked Gambler
God's Country and the Man
1931
as Stingaree Kelly
Fighting Texans
1933
as Pop Martin
The Fugitive
1933
as Judge Tyler
The Throwback
1935
as Ford Cruze
The Night Rider
1932
as Altoonie
Bandits of the Badlands
1934
as Sheriff Jake Withers
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