Cast
George 'Gabby' Hayes
Acting
Cast
George 'Gabby' Hayes
Known for
Acting
Born
1885-05-06
From
Wellsville, New York, USA
Died
1969-02-09
Also known as George Francis Hayes, George Hayes, George Francis "Gabby" Hayes
Biography
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.
★6.6
MOVIE1932
Love Me Tonight
as Grocer (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1931
Dirigible
as Parade Official (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1932
Texas Buddies
as Si Haller
★5.8
MOVIE1939
Wall Street Cowboy
as Gabby
★5.5
MOVIE1938
Heart of Arizona
as Windy Halliday
★4.6
MOVIE1946
Song of Arizona
as Gabby Whittaker
★7.5
MOVIE1945
Along the Navajo Trail
as Gabby Whittaker
★6.2
MOVIE1943
In Old Oklahoma
as Despirit Dean
★6.0
MOVIE1932
Riders of the Desert
as Hashknife Brooks
★6.5
MOVIE1935
Hop-a-long Cassidy
as Uncle Ben
★5.3
MOVIE1936
Heart of the West
as Windy Jenkins
★6.0
MOVIE1942
Sunset on the Desert
as Gabby Whittaker
★8.0
MOVIE1933
The Devil's Mate
as Collins
★7.0
MOVIE1987
It's Howdy Doody Time: A 40-Year Celebration
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE1932
A Slip at the Switch
as Deputy Smoot
★9.0
MOVIE1942
The Sons of the Pioneers
as Gabby Whittaker
★5.7
MOVIE1935
Ladies Crave Excitement
as McCloskey
★9.0
MOVIE1943
Overland Mail Robbery
as Gabby
★7.5
MOVIE1936
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
as Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1938
Gold Is Where You Find It
as Enoch
★6.8
MOVIE1931
Big Business Girl
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1941
Red River Valley
as Gabby Whittaker
★8.0
MOVIE1931
The Nevada Buckaroo
as Cherokee Williams
★9.0
MOVIE1935
Justice of the Range
as John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson
★4.8
MOVIE1934
'Neath the Arizona Skies
as Matt Downing
★5.1
MOVIE1934
House of Mystery
as David Fells
★6.2
MOVIE1946
Heldorado
as Gabby Whittaker
★5.8
MOVIE1935
$1,000 a Minute
as New Deal Watson
★7.5
MOVIE1942
Ridin' Down the Canyon
as Gabby
★6.7
MOVIE1939
Saga of Death Valley
as Gabby
★8.0
MOVIE1932
The Night Rider
as Altoonie
★5.5
MOVIE1936
The Lawless Nineties
as Major Carter
★6.3
MOVIE1944
The Big Bonanza
as Hap Selby
★6.4
MOVIE1950
The Cariboo Trail
as Grizzly
★5.9
MOVIE1934
Monte Carlo Nights
as Inspector Nick Gunby
★4.8
MOVIE1934
The Lawless Frontier
as Dusty
★6.0
MOVIE1949
El Paso
as Pesky Tees
★6.8
MOVIE1936
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
as Windy Halliday
MOVIE1934
Rodeo Rocketeers
as Marshall George
★5.1
MOVIE1939
Days of Jesse James
as Gabby
★7.5
MOVIE1933
Trailing North
as Flash Ryan
★6.8
MOVIE1939
Let Freedom Ring
as Pop Wilkie
★6.3
MOVIE1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
★6.3
MOVIE1948
Return of the Bad Men
as John Pettit
★6.3
MOVIE1940
Dark Command
as Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
★6.6
MOVIE1946
Home in Oklahoma
as Gabby Whittaker
★6.2
MOVIE1940
Melody Ranch
as Pop Laramie
★6.5
MOVIE1936
The Plainsman
as Breezy
★5.6
MOVIE1931
The Stolen Jools
as Projectionist
★6.0
MOVIE1937
Mountain Music
as Granpappy Burnside
★5.4
MOVIE1932
Winner Take All
as Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1939
In Old Monterey
as Gabby Whittaker
MOVIE1934
Next Of Kin
as 'Dusty'
★5.1
MOVIE1933
The Sphinx
as Detective Casey
★6.7
MOVIE1938
In Old Mexico
as Windy Halliday
★6.6
MOVIE1944
Tall in the Saddle
as Dave
★4.8
MOVIE1934
The Man from Utah
as Marshal George Higgins
★4.8
MOVIE1934
Blue Steel
as Sheriff Jake Withers
★7.5
MOVIE1946
Under Nevada Skies
as Gabby Whittaker
★6.1
MOVIE1939
The Arizona Kid
as Gabby Whittaker
★6.5
MOVIE1947
Trail Street
as Billy Jones
MOVIE1934
The Shadow Gang
as Matt Matlock
★6.5
MOVIE1938
Pride of the West
as Windy Halliday
★5.6
MOVIE1939
Man of Conquest
as Lannie Upchurch
★5.8
MOVIE1934
In Old Santa Fe
as Cactus
★5.0
MOVIE1942
South of Santa Fe
as Gabby Whittaker
★6.4
MOVIE1947
Wyoming
as Windy Gibson
★6.2
MOVIE1935
The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Lucas
★10.0
MOVIE1936
Silverspurs
as Drag Harlan
★6.4
MOVIE1940
Colorado
as Gabby
★5.8
MOVIE1938
The Frontiersmen
as Windy Halliday
★8.0
MOVIE1944
Hidden Valley Outlaws
as Gabby Hayes
★9.0
MOVIE1943
Bordertown Gun Fighters
as Gabby Hayes
★6.2
MOVIE1940
The Carson City Kid
as Gabby Whittaker
★6.0
MOVIE1936
Three on the Trail
as Windy Halliday
★7.3
MOVIE1934
Beggars in Ermine
as Joe Wilson
★6.5
MOVIE1942
Romance on the Range
as Gabby
★5.3
MOVIE1936
Trail Dust
as Windy Halliday
★5.8
MOVIE1945
Don't Fence Me In
as Gabby Whittaker
★6.3
MOVIE1946
Roll on Texas Moon
as Gabby Whittaker
★5.7
MOVIE1945
Sunset in El Dorado
as Gabby
★5.3
MOVIE1932
Klondike
as Tom Ross
★6.6
MOVIE1936
The Texas Rangers
as Judge Snow
★4.2
MOVIE1942
Heart of the Golden West
as Gabby
★7.0
MOVIE1935
Death Flies East
as Wotkyns
★5.8
MOVIE1936
Call of the Prairie
as Shanghai McHenry
★4.8
MOVIE1941
Jesse James at Bay
as Sheriff Gabby Whitaker
★6.7
MOVIE1937
North of the Rio Grande
as Windy Halliday
★10.0
MOVIE1932
Wild Horse Mesa
as Slack
★6.7
MOVIE1936
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
as Bearded Man
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Nevada City
as Gabby Chapman
★8.0
MOVIE1944
Tucson Raiders
as 'Gabby' Hopkins
★5.5
MOVIE1939
Southward Ho!
as Gabby
★9.0
MOVIE1943
Wagon Tracks West
as Gabby
★7.5
MOVIE1937
Borderland
as Windy Halliday
★5.6
MOVIE1944
Lights of Old Santa Fe
as Gabby Whittaker
★6.0
MOVIE1941
Robin Hood of the Pecos
as Gabriel Gabby Hornaday
★6.3
MOVIE1945
Man from Oklahoma
as Gabby Whittaker
★4.6
MOVIE1935
The Headline Woman
as Duffy
★6.0
MOVIE1939
In Old Caliente
as Gabby
★4.6
MOVIE1941
In Old Cheyenne
as Arapaho Brown
★5.2
MOVIE1934
West of the Divide
as 'Dusty'
★8.0
MOVIE1930
She Who Gets Slapped
as Poker Player
★4.5
MOVIE1929
Big News
as Hoffman
★7.8
MOVIE1935
Hitch Hike Lady
as Miner
★7.5
MOVIE1936
Valley of the Lawless
as Grandpaw Jenkins
★6.2
MOVIE1942
Sunset Serenade
as Gabby
★5.5
MOVIE1945
Utah
as Gabby Whittaker
★8.5
MOVIE1976
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
as (archive footage)
★5.3
MOVIE1936
I Married a Doctor
as Train Station Agent
★7.5
MOVIE1943
Death Valley Manhunt
as Gabby Hayes
★4.5
MOVIE1934
The Star Packer
as Matt Matlock
★4.7
MOVIE1944
Mojave Firebrand
as Gabby Hayes
★7.3
MOVIE1946
Rainbow Over Texas
as Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker
★4.9
MOVIE1935
Rainbow Valley
as George Hale
★5.0
MOVIE1939
Renegade Trail
as Windy Halliday
★6.2
MOVIE1945
Bells of Rosarita
as Gabby Whittake
★6.7
MOVIE1935
Bar 20 Rides Again
as Windy Halliday
★5.3
MOVIE1933
Riders of Destiny
as Charlie Denton
★6.3
MOVIE1946
Badman's Territory
as Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid
★4.6
MOVIE1940
Young Buffalo Bill
as Gabby Whittaker
★6.3
MOVIE1939
Sunset Trail
as Windy Halliday
★9.0
MOVIE1935
The Outlaw Tamer
as Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)
MOVIE1934
Claim Jumpers
as Jake Benson
★5.5
MOVIE1934
City Limits
as Charlie Carter
★7.2
MOVIE1941
Sheriff of Tombstone
as Gabby
★4.7
MOVIE1934
Mystery Liner
as Joe, the Watchman
★5.4
MOVIE1938
Bar 20 Justice
as Windy Halliday
★7.3
MOVIE1940
The Ranger and the Lady
as Gabby Whittaker
★6.8
MOVIE1948
Albuquerque
as Juke
★8.0
MOVIE1942
Man from Cheyenne
as Gabby Whittaker
★5.3
MOVIE1930
For the Defense
as Ben (the waiter)
★5.0
MOVIE1934
The Lucky Texan
as Jake 'Grandy' Benson
★7.5
MOVIE1933
The Return of Casey Jones
as Timothy Shine
★7.5
MOVIE1932
Hidden Valley
as Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat
★8.0
MOVIE1944
Marshal of Reno
as Gabby
★5.0
MOVIE1930
Playing Around
as Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited)
MOVIE1934
The Drifter
as Marvin Black
★5.0
MOVIE1937
Hills of Old Wyoming
as Windy Halliday
★9.0
MOVIE1929
Smiling Irish Eyes
as Taxi Driver
★5.3
MOVIE1941
Bad Man of Deadwood
as Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone
★5.0
MOVIE1940
The Border Legion
as Honest John Whittaker
★5.0
MOVIE1932
Broadway to Cheyenne
as Walrus
★10.0
MOVIE1929
Rainbow Man
as Bill
★6.3
MOVIE1943
Calling Wild Bill Elliott
as Gabby Hayes
★7.5
MOVIE1943
The Man from Thunder River
as Gabby Whittaker
★6.3
MOVIE1937
Hopalong Rides Again
as Windy Halliday
★10.0
MOVIE1919
The House Without Children
as Archibald Ponsonby
★9.0
MOVIE1931
Oklahoma Jim
as Crooked Gambler
★8.0
MOVIE1933
Galloping Romeo
as Grizzly
★5.8
MOVIE1935
The Eagle's Brood
as Spike
★4.3
MOVIE1935
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
as Pearson (as George Hayes)
★5.8
MOVIE1933
Skyway
as George Taylor
★5.1
MOVIE1933
The Phantom Broadcast
as Police Lieutenant
★6.2
MOVIE1931
Dragnet Patrol
as Private Detective
★5.5
MOVIE1933
Crashing Broadway
as J. Talbot Thorndyke
MOVIE1934
Bandits of the Badlands
as Sheriff Jake Withers
★3.8
MOVIE1933
Ship of Wanted Men
as Crewman
★5.1
MOVIE1931
Cavalier of the West
as Sheriff Bill Ryan
★7.0
MOVIE1933
Breed of the Border
as Chuck Wiggins
★10.0
MOVIE1932
Self Defense
as Jury Foreman
★4.8
MOVIE1935
Texas Terror
as Sheriff Ed Williams
★10.0
MOVIE1935
Thunder Mountain
as Foley
★5.8
MOVIE1935
Honeymoon Limited
as Pinkham
★8.0
MOVIE1932
Sally of the Subway
as Police Lieutenant Paxton
★5.0
MOVIE1934
Randy Rides Alone
as - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute
★5.0
MOVIE1932
Play Girl
as Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1940
Wagons Westward
as Hardtack
★6.0
MOVIE1932
Border Devils
as Squint Sanders
★5.8
MOVIE1934
The Brand of Hate
as Bill Larkins
★10.0
MOVIE1933
Ranger's Code
as Baxter (as George Hayes)
★6.5
MOVIE1948
The Untamed Breed
as Windy Lucas
★5.5
MOVIE1946
My Pal Trigger
as Gabby Kendrick
★5.8
MOVIE1936
Song of the Trail
as Dan Hobson
★5.4
MOVIE1940
Young Bill Hickok
as 'Gabby' Whitaker
★5.8
MOVIE1937
Rustlers' Valley
as Windy Halliday
★7.0
MOVIE1939
Fighting Thoroughbreds
as Gramps Montrose
★5.7
MOVIE1934
The Man from Hell
as Banker Colonel Campbell
★5.8
MOVIE1935
The Lost City
as Butterfield
★6.5
MOVIE1932
The Man from Hell's Edges
as Shamrock Cassidy
★6.3
MOVIE1937
Texas Trail
as Windy Halliday
★3.3
MOVIE1934
Bedlam of Beards
★5.5
MOVIE1935
Tombstone Terror
as Soupy Baxter
★7.0
MOVIE1932
The Boiling Point
as George Duncan
★6.0
MOVIE1935
Smokey Smith
as Blaze Bart
★9.0
MOVIE1933
The Gallant Fool
as Dad Denton
★9.0
MOVIE1933
Fighting Texans
as Pop Martin
★6.7
MOVIE1932
The Fighting Champ
as Pete
MOVIE1934
Vengence is Mine
as Dusty
★7.5
MOVIE1935
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
as Dr. Parker
★6.5
MOVIE1939
Silver on the Sage
as Windy Halliday
★8.0
MOVIE1931
God's Country and the Man
as Stingaree Kelly
MOVIE1958
The Western: A Lost TV Special
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE1930
Top Speed
as Western Union Clerk
★7.0
MOVIE1935
The Throwback
as Ford Cruze
★8.0
MOVIE1933
The Fugitive
as Judge Tyler
★8.0
MOVIE1935
Swifty
as Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)