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(197)
Self
1950
Gabby Whittaker (archive footage)
1978
Self
1956
Himself
1950
Narrator
1956
Self (archive footage)
1975
Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)
1936
Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid
1946
Grizzly
1950
Dusty
1934
Dave
1944
Gabby Whittaker
1940
Pesky Tees
1949
Gabby Whittaker
1940
Detective Casey
1933
Matt Matlock
1934
Charlie Denton
1933
Despirit Dean
1943
Marshal George Higgins
1934
Enoch
1938
'Dusty'
1934
Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
1940
Breezy
1936
Gabby
1942
Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone
1941
Gabby Whittaker
1945
Grocer (uncredited)
1932
Sheriff Jake Withers
1934
Billy Jones
1947
Sheriff Gabby Whitaker
1941
Gabby Whittaker
1946
- Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute
1934
Gabby Whittaker
1940
Joe, the Watchman
1934
Collins
1933
Gabby Whittaker
1941
John Pettit
1948
Gabby
1939
Gabby
1940
Gabby
1939
Windy Halliday
1938
Major Carter
1936
George Hale
1935
David Fells
1934
Judge Snow
1936
Windy Halliday
1937
Arapaho Brown
1941
Matt Downing
1934
Lucas
1935
Gabby
1939
Gabriel Gabby Hornaday
1941
'Gabby' Whitaker
1940
Projectionist
1931
Gabby Whittaker
1944
Gabby Kendrick
1946
Gabby Whittaker
1942
Blaze Bart
1935
Juke
1948
Gabby
1939
Gabby
1941
Windy Halliday
1937
Jake 'Grandy' Benson
1934
Gabby Whittaker
1942
Spike
1935
Gabby Whittaker
1946
Windy Halliday
1938
Parade Official (uncredited)
1931
Pop Laramie
1940
Pearson (as George Hayes)
1935
Hoffman
1929
Gabby Whittaker
1946
Gabby Whittaker
1946
Pop Wilkie
1939
Sheriff Ed Williams
1935
Gabby
1939
Train Station Agent
1936
Honest John Whittaker
1940
Gabby Hayes
1943
Gabby Whittaker
1939
Windy Halliday
1936
Gabby Hayes
1944
Windy Halliday
1937
New Deal Watson
1935
Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)
1932
Dad Denton
1933
Windy Halliday
1935
Gabby
1942
Uncle Ben
1935
Windy Lucas
1948
Windy Halliday
1939
Western Union Clerk
1930
Dr. Parker
1935
Windy Halliday
1936
Windy Halliday
1939
Gabby
1943
Bearded Man
1936
Miner
1935
Gabby Hayes
1943
Windy Gibson
1947
Ford Cruze
1935
Windy Halliday
1936
Windy Halliday
1937
Windy Halliday
1939
Joe Wilson
1934
Gabby Whittaker
1945
Shanghai McHenry
1936
Foley
1935
Butterfield
1935
Stingaree Kelly
1931
Altoonie
1932
Gabby Whittake
1945
Gabby
1942
Gabby Whittaker
1942
Lannie Upchurch
1939
Windy Halliday
1938
Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker
1946
Gabby
1942
Hap Selby
1944
George Duncan
1932
Gabby Whittaker
1939
Gabby Hayes
1943
Windy Halliday
1938
'Dusty'
1934
Gabby
1944
Gabby Whittaker
1946
Windy Halliday
1938
(archive footage)
1976
Timothy Shine
1933
Dan Hobson
1936
Gabby Hayes
1944
Gabby Whittaker
1943
Granpappy Burnside
1937
Gabby Whittaker
1945
Bill Larkins
1934
Hashknife Brooks
1932
Cactus
1934
Police Lieutenant
1933
Inspector Nick Gunby
1934
Soupy Baxter
1935
Cherokee Williams
1931
Gabby
1943
Gabby Whittaker
1942
Windy Halliday
1937
Chuck Wiggins
1933
Ben (the waiter)
1930
Gabby Chapman
1941
Drag Harlan
1936
Si Haller
1932
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1931
Windy Halliday
1937
Wotkyns
1935
'Gabby' Hopkins
1944
Poker Player
1930
Bill
1929
Gabby
1945
John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson
1935
Shamrock Cassidy
1932
George Taylor
1933
Gramps Montrose
1939
Windy Jenkins
1936
Banker Colonel Campbell
1934
Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited)
1930
Jury Foreman
1932
Squint Sanders
1932
Sheriff Bill Ryan
1931
Hardtack
1940
Duffy
1935
Grandpaw Jenkins
1936
Tom Ross
1932
Pinkham
1935
Judge Tyler
1933
Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)
1935
Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)
1935
Police Lieutenant Paxton
1932
Crooked Gambler
1931
Pete
1932
Charlie Carter
1934
Slack
1932
Gabby Whittaker
1945
Walrus
1932
Crewman
1933
J. Talbot Thorndyke
1933
Taxi Driver
1929
Private Detective
1931
Pop Martin
1933
Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat
1932
McCloskey
1935
Sheriff Jake Withers
1934
Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)
1932
1934
Flash Ryan
1933
Grizzly
1933
Matt Matlock
1934
Baxter (as George Hayes)
1933
Jake Benson
1934
Deputy Smoot
1932
Archibald Ponsonby
1919