George 'Gabby' Hayes
Born May 06, 1885 (Age: 140)
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Wellsville, New York, USA
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.
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.
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Filmography
The Western: A Lost TV Special
1958
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as Self
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Age: 73
Ridin' Down the Canyon
1942
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as Gabby
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Age: 57
Heart of the Golden West
1942
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as Gabby
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Age: 57
Sunset Serenade
1942
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as Gabby
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Age: 57
Sons of the Pioneers
1942
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as Gabby Whittaker
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Age: 57
Romance on the Range
1942
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as Gabby
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Age: 57
Sunset on the Desert
1942
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as Gabby Whittaker
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Age: 56
South of Santa Fe
1942
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as Gabby Whittaker
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Age: 56
Man from Cheyenne
1942
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as Gabby Whittaker
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Age: 56
Red River Valley
1941
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as Gabby Whittaker
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Age: 56
Jesse James at Bay
1941
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as Sheriff Gabby Whitaker
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Age: 56
Bad Man of Deadwood
1941
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as Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone
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Age: 56
Nevada City
1941
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as Gabby Chapman
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Age: 56
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941
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as Gabby
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Age: 56
In Old Cheyenne
1941
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as Arapaho Brown
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Age: 55
Robin Hood of the Pecos
1941
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as Gabriel Gabby Hornaday
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Age: 55
The Fighting Champ
1932
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as Pete
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Age: 47
Self Defense
1932
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as Jury Foreman
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Age: 47
Wild Horse Mesa
1932
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as Slack
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Age: 47
Texas Buddies
1932
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as Si Haller
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Age: 47
Hidden Valley
1932
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as Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat
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Age: 47
Broadway to Cheyenne
1932
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as Walrus
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Age: 47
Klondike
1932
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as Tom Ross
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Age: 47
The Night Rider
1932
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as Altoonie
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Age: 47
Love Me Tonight
1932
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as Grocer (uncredited)
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Age: 47
No Image
A Slip at the Switch
1932
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as Deputy Smoot
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Age: 47
Winner Take All
1932
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as Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)
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Age: 47
The Boiling Point
1932
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as George Duncan
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Age: 47
The Man from Hell's Edges
1932
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as Shamrock Cassidy
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Age: 46
Riders of the Desert
1932
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as Hashknife Brooks
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Age: 46
Border Devils
1932
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as Squint Sanders
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Age: 46
Play Girl
1932
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as Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)
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Age: 46
Sally of the Subway
1932
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as Police Lieutenant Paxton
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Age: 46
Oklahoma Jim
1931
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as Crooked Gambler
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Age: 46
God's Country and the Man
1931
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as Stingaree Kelly
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Age: 45