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George 'Gabby' Hayes

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
Tall in the Saddle

Tall in the Saddle

1944 6.6

as Dave

Age 59 (now 83)
Dark Command
Dark Command

Dark Command

1940 6.4

as Andrew 'Doc' Grunch

Age 54 (now 83)
Return of the Bad Men
Return of the Bad Men

Return of the Bad Men

1948 6.3

as John Pettit

Age 63 (now 83)
In Old Oklahoma
In Old Oklahoma

In Old Oklahoma

1943 6.2

as Despirit Dean

Age 58 (now 83)
The Cariboo Trail
The Cariboo Trail

The Cariboo Trail

1950 6.4

as Grizzly

Age 65 (now 83)
Blue Steel
Blue Steel

Blue Steel

1934 4.8

as Sheriff Jake Withers

Age 49 (now 83)
The Star Packer
The Star Packer

The Star Packer

1934 4.5

as Matt Matlock

Age 49 (now 83)
Randy Rides Alone
Randy Rides Alone

Randy Rides Alone

1934 5.0

as - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute

Age 49 (now 83)
Albuquerque
Albuquerque

Albuquerque

1948 6.8

as Juke

Age 62 (now 83)
West of the Divide
West of the Divide

West of the Divide

1934 5.2

as 'Dusty'

Age 48 (now 83)
Rainbow Valley
Rainbow Valley

Rainbow Valley

1935 4.9

as George Hale

Age 49 (now 83)
Riders of Destiny
Riders of Destiny

Riders of Destiny

1933 5.3

as Charlie Denton

Age 48 (now 83)
The Lawless Frontier
The Lawless Frontier

The Lawless Frontier

1934 4.8

as Dusty

Age 49 (now 83)
The Lucky Texan
The Lucky Texan

The Lucky Texan

1934 5.0

as Jake 'Grandy' Benson

Age 48 (now 83)
The Man from Utah
The Man from Utah

The Man from Utah

1934 4.8

as Marshal George Higgins

Age 49 (now 83)
Texas Terror
Texas Terror

Texas Terror

1935 4.8

as Sheriff Ed Williams

Age 50 (now 83)