George 'Gabby' Hayes

Acting

May 6, 1885 – February 9, 1969 (died at 83)

Wellsville, New York, USA

Male

197 Movies

5 TV Shows

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.

Tall in the Saddle

1944 6.6

as Dave

Age 59 (now 83)

Dark Command

1940 6.4

as Andrew 'Doc' Grunch

Age 54 (now 83)

Return of the Bad Men

1948 6.3

as John Pettit

Age 63 (now 83)

In Old Oklahoma

1943 6.2

as Despirit Dean

Age 58 (now 83)

The Cariboo Trail

1950 6.4

as Grizzly

Age 65 (now 83)

Blue Steel

1934 4.8

as Sheriff Jake Withers

Age 49 (now 83)

The Star Packer

1934 4.5

as Matt Matlock

Age 49 (now 83)

Randy Rides Alone

1934 5.0

as - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute

Age 49 (now 83)

Albuquerque

1948 6.8

as Juke

Age 62 (now 83)

West of the Divide

1934 5.2

as 'Dusty'

Age 48 (now 83)

Rainbow Valley

1935 4.9

as George Hale

Age 49 (now 83)

Riders of Destiny

1933 5.3

as Charlie Denton

Age 48 (now 83)

The Lawless Frontier

1934 4.8

as Dusty

Age 49 (now 83)

The Lucky Texan

1934 5.0

as Jake 'Grandy' Benson

Age 48 (now 83)

The Man from Utah

1934 4.8

as Marshal George Higgins

Age 49 (now 83)

Texas Terror

1935 4.8

as Sheriff Ed Williams

Age 50 (now 83)

It's Howdy Doody Time: A 40-Year Celebration

1987 7.0

as Self (archive footage)

Age 102 (now 83)

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

1976 8.5

as (archive footage)

Age 90 (now 83)

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

1975 6.3

as Self (archive footage)

Age 90 (now 83)

The Western: A Lost TV Special

1958

as Self

Age 73 (now 83)

The Cariboo Trail

1950 6.4

as Grizzly

Age 65 (now 83)

El Paso

1949 6.0

as Pesky Tees

Age 63 (now 83)

The Untamed Breed

1948 6.5

as Windy Lucas

Age 63 (now 83)

Return of the Bad Men

1948 6.3

as John Pettit

Age 63 (now 83)

Albuquerque

1948 6.8

as Juke

Age 62 (now 83)

Wyoming

1947 6.5

as Windy Gibson

Age 62 (now 83)

Trail Street

1947 6.5

as Billy Jones

Age 61 (now 83)

Heldorado

1946 6.0

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 61 (now 83)

Home in Oklahoma

1946 6.6

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 61 (now 83)

Roll on Texas Moon

1946 6.3

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 61 (now 83)

Under Nevada Skies

1946 7.5

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 61 (now 83)

My Pal Trigger

1946 5.5

as Gabby Kendrick

Age 61 (now 83)

Rainbow Over Texas

1946 7.3

as Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker

Age 61 (now 83)

Badman's Territory

1946 6.3

as Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid

Age 60 (now 83)

Song of Arizona

1946 4.6

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 60 (now 83)

Don't Fence Me In

1945 5.8

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 60 (now 83)

Sunset in El Dorado

1945 5.7

as Gabby

Age 60 (now 83)

Along the Navajo Trail

1945 7.5

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 60 (now 83)

Man from Oklahoma

1945 6.3

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 60 (now 83)

Bells of Rosarita

1945 6.2

as Gabby Whittake

Age 60 (now 83)

Utah

1945 5.5

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 59 (now 83)

The Big Bonanza

1944 6.3

as Hap Selby

Age 59 (now 83)

Lights of Old Santa Fe

1944 5.6

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 59 (now 83)

Tall in the Saddle

1944 6.6

as Dave

Age 59 (now 83)

Marshal of Reno

1944 8.0

as Gabby

Age 59 (now 83)

Tucson Raiders

1944 8.0

as 'Gabby' Hopkins

Age 59 (now 83)

Hidden Valley Outlaws

1944 8.0

as Gabby Hayes

Age 58 (now 83)

Mojave Firebrand

1944 4.7

as Gabby Hayes

Age 58 (now 83)

In Old Oklahoma

1943 6.2

as Despirit Dean

Age 58 (now 83)

Death Valley Manhunt

1943 7.5

as Gabby Hayes

Age 58 (now 83)

Overland Mail Robbery

1943 9.0

as Gabby

Age 58 (now 83)

Wagon Tracks West

1943 9.0

as Gabby

Age 58 (now 83)

Bordertown Gun Fighters

1943 9.0

as Gabby Hayes

Age 58 (now 83)

The Man from Thunder River

1943 7.5

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 58 (now 83)

Calling Wild Bill Elliott

1943 6.3

as Gabby Hayes

Age 57 (now 83)

Ridin' Down the Canyon

1942 7.5

as Gabby

Age 57 (now 83)

Heart of the Golden West

1942 4.3

as Gabby

Age 57 (now 83)

Sunset Serenade

1942 6.2

as Gabby

Age 57 (now 83)

Sons of the Pioneers

1942 9.0

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 57 (now 83)

Romance on the Range

1942 6.5

as Gabby

Age 57 (now 83)

Sunset on the Desert

1942 6.0

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 56 (now 83)

South of Santa Fe

1942 5.0

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 56 (now 83)

Man from Cheyenne

1942 8.0

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 56 (now 83)

Red River Valley

1941 7.5

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 56 (now 83)

Jesse James at Bay

1941 4.8

as Sheriff Gabby Whitaker

Age 56 (now 83)

Bad Man of Deadwood

1941 5.3

as Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone

Age 56 (now 83)

Nevada City

1941 7.0

as Gabby Chapman

Age 56 (now 83)

Sheriff of Tombstone

1941 7.2

as Gabby

Age 56 (now 83)

In Old Cheyenne

1941 4.6

as Arapaho Brown

Age 55 (now 83)

Robin Hood of the Pecos

1941 6.0

as Gabriel Gabby Hornaday

Age 55 (now 83)

The Border Legion

1940 5.0

as Honest John Whittaker

Age 55 (now 83)

Young Bill Hickok

1940 5.4

as 'Gabby' Whitaker

Age 55 (now 83)

Melody Ranch

1940 6.2

as Pop Laramie

Age 55 (now 83)

Colorado

1940 6.4

as Gabby

Age 55 (now 83)

The Ranger and the Lady

1940 7.3

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 55 (now 83)

The Carson City Kid

1940 6.2

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 55 (now 83)

Wagons Westward

1940 6.5

as Hardtack

Age 55 (now 83)

Dark Command

1940 6.4

as Andrew 'Doc' Grunch

Age 54 (now 83)

Young Buffalo Bill

1940 4.6

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 54 (now 83)

Days of Jesse James

1939 5.1

as Gabby

Age 54 (now 83)

Saga of Death Valley

1939 6.7

as Gabby

Age 54 (now 83)

The Arizona Kid

1939 6.1

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 54 (now 83)

In Old Monterey

1939 6.3

as Gabby Whittaker

Age 54 (now 83)

Wall Street Cowboy

1939 5.8

as Gabby

Age 54 (now 83)

Renegade Trail

1939 5.0

as Windy Halliday

Age 54 (now 83)

In Old Caliente

1939 6.0

as Gabby

Age 54 (now 83)

Man of Conquest

1939 5.6

as Lannie Upchurch

Age 54 (now 83)

Silver on the Sage

1939 6.5

as Windy Halliday

Age 53 (now 83)

Southward Ho!

1939 5.5

as Gabby

Age 53 (now 83)

Let Freedom Ring

1939 6.8

as Pop Wilkie

Age 53 (now 83)

Sunset Trail

1939 6.3

as Windy Halliday

Age 53 (now 83)

Fighting Thoroughbreds

1939 7.0

as Gramps Montrose

Age 53 (now 83)

The Frontiersmen

1938 5.8

as Windy Halliday

Age 53 (now 83)

In Old Mexico

1938 6.7

as Windy Halliday

Age 53 (now 83)

Pride of the West

1938 6.5

as Windy Halliday

Age 53 (now 83)

Bar 20 Justice

1938 5.4

as Windy Halliday

Age 53 (now 83)

Heart of Arizona

1938 5.5

as Windy Halliday

Age 52 (now 83)

Gold Is Where You Find It

1938 7.0

as Enoch

Age 52 (now 83)

Texas Trail

1937 6.3

as Windy Halliday

Age 52 (now 83)

Hopalong Rides Again

1937 6.3

as Windy Halliday

Age 52 (now 83)

Rustlers' Valley

1937 5.8

as Windy Halliday

Age 52 (now 83)

North of the Rio Grande

1937 6.7

as Windy Halliday

Age 52 (now 83)

Mountain Music

1937 6.0

as Granpappy Burnside

Age 52 (now 83)

Hills of Old Wyoming

1937 5.0

as Windy Halliday

Age 51 (now 83)

Borderland

1937 7.5

as Windy Halliday

Age 51 (now 83)

Trail Dust

1936 5.3

as Windy Halliday

Age 51 (now 83)

The Plainsman

1936 6.5

as Breezy

Age 51 (now 83)

Hopalong Cassidy Returns

1936 6.8

as Windy Halliday

Age 51 (now 83)

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

1936 6.7

as Bearded Man

Age 51 (now 83)

The Texas Rangers

1936 6.6

as Judge Snow

Age 51 (now 83)

I Married a Doctor

1936 5.3

as Train Station Agent

Age 50 (now 83)

Three on the Trail

1936 6.0

as Windy Halliday

Age 50 (now 83)

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936 7.5

as Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)

Age 50 (now 83)

Song of the Trail

1936 5.8

as Dan Hobson

Age 50 (now 83)

Call of the Prairie

1936 5.8

as Shanghai McHenry

Age 50 (now 83)

Heart of the West

1936 5.3

as Windy Jenkins

Age 50 (now 83)

The Lawless Nineties

1936 5.5

as Major Carter

Age 50 (now 83)

Silverspurs

1936 10.0

as Drag Harlan

Age 50 (now 83)

Valley of the Lawless

1936 7.5

as Grandpaw Jenkins

Age 50 (now 83)

Hitch Hike Lady

1935 7.8

as Miner

Age 50 (now 83)

Swifty

1935 8.0

as Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)

Age 50 (now 83)

Bar 20 Rides Again

1935 6.7

as Windy Halliday

Age 50 (now 83)

The Eagle's Brood

1935 5.8

as Spike

Age 50 (now 83)

$1,000 a Minute

1935 5.8

as New Deal Watson

Age 50 (now 83)

Texas Terror

1935 4.8

as Sheriff Ed Williams

Age 50 (now 83)

The Throwback

1935 7.0

as Ford Cruze

Age 50 (now 83)

Thunder Mountain

1935 10.0

as Foley

Age 50 (now 83)

Tumbling Tumbleweeds

1935 7.5

as Dr. Parker

Age 50 (now 83)

Hop-a-long Cassidy

1935 6.5

as Uncle Ben

Age 50 (now 83)

The Farmer Takes a Wife

1935 6.2

as Lucas

Age 50 (now 83)

Honeymoon Limited

1935 5.8

as Pinkham

Age 50 (now 83)

Ladies Crave Excitement

1935 5.7

as McCloskey

Age 50 (now 83)

Justice of the Range

1935 9.0

as John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson

Age 50 (now 83)

The Headline Woman

1935 4.6

as Duffy

Age 50 (now 83)

The Hoosier Schoolmaster

1935 4.3

as Pearson (as George Hayes)

Age 50 (now 83)

Tombstone Terror

1935 5.5

as Soupy Baxter

Age 49 (now 83)

Smokey Smith

1935 6.0

as Blaze Bart

Age 49 (now 83)

Rainbow Valley

1935 4.9

as George Hale

Age 49 (now 83)

The Outlaw Tamer

1935 9.0

as Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)

Age 49 (now 83)

The Lost City

1935 5.8

as Butterfield

Age 49 (now 83)

Death Flies East

1935 7.0

as Wotkyns

Age 49 (now 83)

'Neath the Arizona Skies

1934 4.8

as Matt Downing

Age 49 (now 83)

The Lawless Frontier

1934 4.8

as Dusty

Age 49 (now 83)

Vengence is Mine

1934

as Dusty

Age 49 (now 83)

In Old Santa Fe

1934 5.8

as Cactus

Age 49 (now 83)

The Brand of Hate

1934 5.8

as Bill Larkins

Age 49 (now 83)

The Man from Hell

1934 5.7

as Banker Colonel Campbell

Age 49 (now 83)

The Star Packer

1934 4.5

as Matt Matlock

Age 49 (now 83)

The Drifter

1934

as Marvin Black

Age 49 (now 83)

Randy Rides Alone

1934 5.0

as - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute

Age 49 (now 83)

The Shadow Gang

1934

as Matt Matlock

Age 49 (now 83)

Next Of Kin

1934

as 'Dusty'

Age 49 (now 83)

Bandits of the Badlands

1934

as Sheriff Jake Withers

Age 49 (now 83)

Monte Carlo Nights

1934 5.9

as Inspector Nick Gunby

Age 49 (now 83)

The Man from Utah

1934 4.8

as Marshal George Higgins

Age 49 (now 83)

Rodeo Rocketeers

1934

as Marshall George

Age 49 (now 83)

Blue Steel

1934 4.8

as Sheriff Jake Withers

Age 49 (now 83)

City Limits

1934 5.5

as Charlie Carter

Age 48 (now 83)

Bedlam of Beards

1934 3.3

Age 48 (now 83)

House of Mystery

1934 5.1

as David Fells

Age 48 (now 83)

Mystery Liner

1934 4.7

as Joe, the Watchman

Age 48 (now 83)

Beggars in Ermine

1934 7.3

as Joe Wilson

Age 48 (now 83)

West of the Divide

1934 5.2

as 'Dusty'

Age 48 (now 83)

The Lucky Texan

1934 5.0

as Jake 'Grandy' Benson

Age 48 (now 83)

Claim Jumpers

1934

as Jake Benson

Age 48 (now 83)

Riders of Destiny

1933 5.3

as Charlie Denton

Age 48 (now 83)

Ship of Wanted Men

1933 3.8

as Crewman

Age 48 (now 83)

Skyway

1933 5.8

as George Taylor

Age 48 (now 83)

The Devil's Mate

1933 8.0

as Collins

Age 48 (now 83)

Ranger's Code

1933 10.0

as Baxter (as George Hayes)

Age 48 (now 83)

Galloping Romeo

1933 8.0

as Grizzly

Age 48 (now 83)

The Fugitive

1933 8.0

as Judge Tyler

Age 48 (now 83)

Fighting Texans

1933 9.0

as Pop Martin

Age 48 (now 83)

The Sphinx

1933 5.1

as Detective Casey

Age 48 (now 83)

Crashing Broadway

1933 5.5

as J. Talbot Thorndyke

Age 48 (now 83)

The Gallant Fool

1933 9.0

as Dad Denton

Age 48 (now 83)

The Return of Casey Jones

1933 7.5

as Timothy Shine

Age 48 (now 83)

Trailing North

1933 7.5

as Flash Ryan

Age 48 (now 83)

The Phantom Broadcast

1933 5.1

as Police Lieutenant

Age 47 (now 83)

Breed of the Border

1933 7.0

as Chuck Wiggins

Age 47 (now 83)

Self Defense

1932 10.0

as Jury Foreman

Age 47 (now 83)

The Fighting Champ

1932 6.7

as Pete

Age 47 (now 83)

Wild Horse Mesa

1932 10.0

as Slack

Age 47 (now 83)

Texas Buddies

1932 7.0

as Si Haller

Age 47 (now 83)

Hidden Valley

1932 7.5

as Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat

Age 47 (now 83)

Broadway to Cheyenne

1932 5.0

as Walrus

Age 47 (now 83)

Klondike

1932 5.3

as Tom Ross

Age 47 (now 83)

The Night Rider

1932 8.0

as Altoonie

Age 47 (now 83)

Love Me Tonight

1932 6.6

as Grocer (uncredited)

Age 47 (now 83)

A Slip at the Switch

1932

as Deputy Smoot

Age 47 (now 83)

Winner Take All

1932 5.4

as Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)

Age 47 (now 83)

The Boiling Point

1932 7.0

as George Duncan

Age 47 (now 83)

The Man from Hell's Edges

1932 6.5

as Shamrock Cassidy

Age 46 (now 83)

Riders of the Desert

1932 6.0

as Hashknife Brooks

Age 46 (now 83)

Border Devils

1932 6.0

as Squint Sanders

Age 46 (now 83)

Play Girl

1932 5.0

as Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)

Age 46 (now 83)

Sally of the Subway

1932 8.0

as Police Lieutenant Paxton

Age 46 (now 83)

Dragnet Patrol

1931 6.2

as Private Detective

Age 46 (now 83)

Cavalier of the West

1931 5.1

as Sheriff Bill Ryan

Age 46 (now 83)

Oklahoma Jim

1931 9.0

as Crooked Gambler

Age 46 (now 83)

The Nevada Buckaroo

1931 8.0

as Cherokee Williams

Age 46 (now 83)

Big Business Girl

1931 6.8

as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

Age 46 (now 83)

God's Country and the Man

1931 8.0

as Stingaree Kelly

Age 45 (now 83)

The Stolen Jools

1931 5.6

as Projectionist

Age 45 (now 83)

Dirigible

1931 5.5

as Parade Official (uncredited)

Age 45 (now 83)

Top Speed

1930 6.5

as Western Union Clerk

Age 45 (now 83)

For the Defense

1930 5.3

as Ben (the waiter)

Age 45 (now 83)

She Who Gets Slapped

1930 8.0

as Poker Player

Age 45 (now 83)

Playing Around

1930 5.0

as Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited)

Age 44 (now 83)

Big News

1929 4.5

as Hoffman

Age 44 (now 83)

Smiling Irish Eyes

1929 9.0

as Taxi Driver

Age 44 (now 83)

Rainbow Man

1929 10.0

as Bill

Age 44 (now 83)

The House Without Children

1919 10.0

as Archibald Ponsonby

Age 34 (now 83)