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Born · May 6, 1885
Died · February 9, 1969 (83 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Wellsville, New York, USA
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.
Gabby Whittaker (archive footage) · (1 episode)
7.5
1978
(archive footage)
9.0
1976
Self (archive footage)
5.7
1975
Self · (1 episode)
5.3
1956
Narrator · (12 episodes)
0.0
1956
Himself · (2 episodes)
6.5
1950
Grizzly
6.3
1950
Self · (1 episode)
6.8
1950
Pesky Tees
5.7
1949
Windy Lucas
5.0
1948
John Pettit
6.3
1948
Juke
6.8
1948
Windy Gibson
6.0
1947
Billy Jones
6.4
1947
Gabby Whittaker
5.5
1946
Gabby Whittaker
6.2
1946
Gabby Whittaker
6.0
1946
Gabby Whittaker
5.0
1946
Gabby Kendrick
5.9
1946
Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker
4.0
1946
Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid
5.8
1946
Gabby Whittaker
4.8
1946
Gabby Whittaker
4.3
1945
Gabby
4.2
1945
Gabby Whittaker
0.0
1945
Gabby Whittaker
4.0
1945
Gabby Whittake
5.5
1945
Gabby Whittaker
5.0
1945
Hap Selby
5.5
1944
Gabby Whittaker
5.2
1944
Dave
6.5
1944
Gabby
7.0
1944
'Gabby' Hopkins
0.0
1944
Gabby Hayes
0.0
1944
Gabby Hayes
3.0
1944
Despirit Dean
6.2
1943
Gabby Hayes
5.0
1943
Gabby
0.0
1943
Gabby
0.0
1943
Gabby Hayes
0.0
1943
Gabby Whittaker
5.0
1943
Gabby Hayes
6.0
1943
Gabby
7.0
1942
Gabby
2.0
1942
Gabby
5.5
1942
Gabby Whittaker
0.0
1942
Gabby
5.7
1942
Gabby Whittaker
5.8
1942
Gabby Whittaker
5.2
1942
Gabby Whittaker
7.5
1942
Gabby Whittaker
7.7
1941
Sheriff Gabby Whitaker
5.0
1941
Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone
4.4
1941
Gabby Chapman
5.0
1941
Gabby
6.8
1941
Arapaho Brown
4.1
1941
Gabriel Gabby Hornaday
5.0
1941
Honest John Whittaker
5.2
1940
'Gabby' Whitaker
4.4
1940
Gabby
5.5
1940
Pop Laramie
5.5
1940
Gabby Whittaker
5.0
1940
Gabby Whittaker
5.5
1940
Hardtack
6.0
1940
Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
6.3
1940
Gabby Whittaker
3.8
1940
Gabby
5.5
1939
Gabby
6.2
1939
Gabby Whittaker
5.8
1939
Gabby Whittaker
5.3
1939
Gabby
6.5
1939
Windy Halliday
5.0
1939
Gabby
5.0
1939
Lannie Upchurch
5.2
1939
Windy Halliday
0.0
1939
Gabby
7.0
1939
Windy Halliday
6.0
1939
Pop Wilkie
6.0
1939
Gramps Montrose
0.0
1939
Windy Halliday
5.0
1938
Windy Halliday
0.0
1938
Windy Halliday
0.0
1938
Windy Halliday
5.0
1938
Windy Halliday
5.5
1938
Enoch
6.9
1938
Windy Halliday
5.5
1937
Windy Halliday
7.0
1937
Windy Halliday
6.0
1937
Windy Halliday
6.0
1937
Granpappy Burnside
6.5
1937
Windy Halliday
0.0
1937
Windy Halliday
0.0
1937
Windy Halliday
4.0
1936
Breezy
6.3
1936
Windy Halliday
6.3
1936
Bearded Man
6.3
1936
Judge Snow
6.4
1936
Train Station Agent
4.7
1936
Windy Halliday
5.0
1936
Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)
7.5
1936
Dan Hobson
5.0
1936
Shanghai McHenry
5.0
1936
Windy Jenkins
4.5
1936
Major Carter
5.2
1936
Drag Harlan
0.0
1936
Grandpaw Jenkins
0.0
1936
Miner
6.8
1935
Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)
0.0
1935
Windy Halliday
6.0
1935
Spike
5.0
1935
New Deal Watson
5.6
1935
Sheriff Ed Williams
4.7
1935
Ford Cruze
0.0
1935
Foley
0.0
1935
Dr. Parker
6.2
1935
Uncle Ben
6.0
1935
Lucas
6.1
1935
Pinkham
6.0
1935
McCloskey
4.5
1935
John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson
0.0
1935
Pearson (as George Hayes)
4.2
1935
Duffy
5.0
1935
Soupy Baxter
4.0
1935
Blaze Bart
5.0
1935
George Hale
4.8
1935
Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)
0.0
1935
Butterfield
5.1
1935
Wotkyns
5.0
1935
Matt Downing
4.5
1934
Dusty
4.7
1934
Cactus
5.0
1934
Bill Larkins
4.5
1934
Banker Colonel Campbell
4.5
1934
Matt Matlock
4.5
1934
- Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute
4.9
1934
Sheriff Jake Withers
0.0
1934
Matt Matlock
0.0
1934
'Dusty'
0.0
1934
Inspector Nick Gunby
5.9
1934
Marshal George Higgins
4.7
1934
Sheriff Jake Withers
4.8
1934
Charlie Carter
4.0
1934
1.0
1934
David Fells
4.7
1934
Joe, the Watchman
4.6
1934
Joe Wilson
6.3
1934
'Dusty'
5.0
1934
Jake 'Grandy' Benson
4.9
1934
Jake Benson
0.0
1934
Charlie Denton
5.2
1933
Crewman
2.0
1933
George Taylor
5.2
1933
Collins
0.0
1933
Baxter (as George Hayes)
0.0
1933
Grizzly
0.0
1933
Judge Tyler
0.0
1933
Pop Martin
0.0
1933
Detective Casey
4.8
1933
J. Talbot Thorndyke
4.0
1933
Dad Denton
0.0
1933
Timothy Shine
6.0
1933
Flash Ryan
6.7
1933
Police Lieutenant
4.8
1933
Chuck Wiggins
0.0
1933
Pete
5.5
1932
Jury Foreman
0.0
1932
Slack
0.0
1932
Si Haller
6.0
1932
Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat
6.0
1932
Walrus
4.2
1932
Tom Ross
5.3
1932
Altoonie
0.0
1932
Grocer (uncredited)
6.6
1932
Deputy Smoot
0.0
1932
Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)
5.3
1932
George Duncan
4.0
1932
Shamrock Cassidy
4.0
1932
Hashknife Brooks
4.5
1932
Squint Sanders
5.3
1932
Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)
5.2
1932
Police Lieutenant Paxton
6.0
1932
Private Detective
5.2
1931
Sheriff Bill Ryan
4.8
1931
Crooked Gambler
0.0
1931
Cherokee Williams
0.0
1931
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
5.5
1931
Stingaree Kelly
0.0
1931
Projectionist
5.6
1931
Parade Official (uncredited)
5.6
1931
Western Union Clerk
6.0
1930
Ben (the waiter)
4.8
1930
Poker Player
8.0
1930
Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited)
4.7
1930
Hoffman
4.6
1929
Taxi Driver
0.0
1929
Bill
0.0
1929
Archibald Ponsonby
0.0
1919