George 'Gabby' Hayes
Acting
🎂 1885-05-06
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.
Cast credits(201)
Self
1956
Self
1950
Gabby
1942
Gabby
1939
Dusty
1934
Gabby Whittaker (archive footage)
1978
Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)
1936
Gabby Hayes
1943
Honest John Whittaker
1940
Marshall George
1934
Bearded Man
1936
Windy Halliday
1936
Self (archive footage)
1975
Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
1940
Joe Wilson
1934
Gabby Whittaker
1945
Gabby
1943
Sheriff Jake Withers
1934
Crooked Gambler
1931
Dusty
1934
Jake Benson
1934
Dave
1944
Marvin Black
1934
Gabby Whittaker
1943
Gabby
1939
Billy Jones
1947
Miner
1935
Matt Downing
1934
John Pettit
1948
Matt Matlock
1934
'Gabby' Whitaker
1940
Gabby Whittaker
1940
Jake 'Grandy' Benson
1934
Gabby
1942
Gabby
1940
Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)
1932
Gabby Hayes
1944
Tom Ross
1932
Projectionist
1931
Gabby Whittake
1945
David Fells
1934
McCloskey
1935
Gabby Whittaker
1939
Gabriel Gabby Hornaday
1941
Sheriff Jake Withers
1934
Windy Gibson
1947
Gabby
1941
Despirit Dean
1943
Gabby Whittaker
1939
Gabby Whittaker
1946
Windy Lucas
1948
Gabby Whittaker
1946
Arapaho Brown
1941
- Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute
1934
Windy Halliday
1936
Pinkham
1935
Breezy
1936
Gabby Whittaker
1944
George Hale
1935
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1931
Judge Snow
1936
Charlie Denton
1933
Sheriff Ed Williams
1935
Gabby Whittaker
1942
Gabby Whittaker
1940
Windy Halliday
1938
Gabby
1944
Pesky Tees
1949
Enoch
1938
Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker
1946
Windy Halliday
1939
Gabby Whittaker
1942
Bill
1929
Windy Halliday
1936
Gabby
1939
Gabby Whittaker
1945
Grandpaw Jenkins
1936
Pop Wilkie
1939
'Dusty'
1934
Hap Selby
1944
Juke
1948
Lucas
1935
Gabby Hayes
1943
Pop Laramie
1940
Gabby Whittaker
1945
Windy Halliday
1937
Granpappy Burnside
1937
Sheriff Gabby Whitaker
1941
Gabby Hayes
1944
Windy Halliday
1937
Marshal George Higgins
1934
John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson
1935
Charlie Carter
1934
Spike
1935
Gabby Whittaker
1942
Dr. Parker
1935
'Dusty'
1934
Matt Matlock
1934
Duffy
1935
Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone
1941
Grizzly
1950
Gabby
1942
Gabby Whittaker
1946
Gabby Whittaker
1941
(archive footage)
1976
Taxi Driver
1929
Gabby Kendrick
1946
Jury Foreman
1932
Windy Halliday
1937
Windy Halliday
1937
Crewman
1933
Gabby
1945
Parade Official (uncredited)
1931
Shanghai McHenry
1936
Gabby
1939
Major Carter
1936
Gabby
1943
Windy Jenkins
1936
Wotkyns
1935
Lannie Upchurch
1939
Walrus
1932
Uncle Ben
1935
Train Station Agent
1936
Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)
1932
Gabby Chapman
1941
Dan Hobson
1936
Gabby Whittaker
1940
Gabby Whittaker
1942
Banker Colonel Campbell
1934
Windy Halliday
1938
Pearson (as George Hayes)
1935
Grocer (uncredited)
1932
Windy Halliday
1938
Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid
1946
Gabby
1939
Gabby Whittaker
1946
Windy Halliday
1939
Windy Halliday
1937
Detective Casey
1933
Collins
1933
Windy Halliday
1938
Slack
1932
Sheriff Bill Ryan
1931
Gabby Hayes
1943
Windy Halliday
1935
Gabby Whittaker
1946
Hoffman
1929
Gabby Whittaker
1945
Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited)
1930
Windy Halliday
1938
Foley
1935
Inspector Nick Gunby
1934
Windy Halliday
1937
Police Lieutenant Paxton
1932
Cactus
1934
Western Union Clerk
1930
Timothy Shine
1933
Altoonie
1932
Baxter (as George Hayes)
1933
'Gabby' Hopkins
1944
Gabby
1942
Gramps Montrose
1939
Windy Halliday
1939
Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)
1935
Squint Sanders
1932
Himself
1950
Narrator
1956
Pop Martin
1933
Butterfield
1935
New Deal Watson
1935
Joe, the Watchman
1934
Poker Player
1930
George Duncan
1932
Chuck Wiggins
1933
Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat
1932
Drag Harlan
1936
Soupy Baxter
1935
Grizzly
1933
Cherokee Williams
1931
Dad Denton
1933
Ben (the waiter)
1930
J. Talbot Thorndyke
1933
George Taylor
1933
Police Lieutenant
1933
Bill Larkins
1934
Archibald Ponsonby
1919
Pete
1932
Private Detective
1931
Stingaree Kelly
1931
Shamrock Cassidy
1932
Judge Tyler
1933
Si Haller
1932
Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)
1935
1934
Hashknife Brooks
1932
Ford Cruze
1935
Blaze Bart
1935
Flash Ryan
1933
Hardtack
1940
Deputy Smoot
1932
Self
1958