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.

Filmography

Title	Character	Year	Rating
Albuquerque	Juke	1948	6.8
My Pal Trigger	Gabby Kendrick	1946	5.545
Badman's Territory	Honest Jim Badger / The …	1946	6.0
Tall in the Saddle	Dave	1944	6.569
In Old Oklahoma	Despirit Dean	1943	6.222
Bad Man of Deadwood	Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone	1941	5.3
Dark Command	Andrew 'Doc' Grunch	1940	6.353
The Carson City Kid	Gabby Whittaker	1940	6.2
Colorado	Gabby	1940	6.4
Renegade Trail	Windy Halliday	1939	5.0
Silver on the Sage	Windy Halliday	1939	6.5
Sunset Trail	Windy Halliday	1939	6.333
Bar 20 Justice	Windy Halliday	1938	5.4
The Frontiersmen	Windy Halliday	1938	5.75
In Old Mexico	Windy Halliday	1938	6.667
Pride of the West	Windy Halliday	1938	6.5
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town	Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)	1936	7.542
Silver Spurs	Drag Harlan	1936	10.0
The Texas Rangers	Judge Snow	1936	6.595
Texas Terror	Sheriff Ed Williams	1935	4.786
The Hoosier Schoolmaster	Pearson (as George Hayes)	1935	4.333
The Lost City	Butterfield	1935	5.813
The Throwback	Ford Cruze	1935	7.0
The Eagle's Brood	Spike	1935	5.8
Randy Rides Alone	- Marvin Black aka Mat …	1934	5.029
The Lucky Texan	Jake 'Grandy' Benson	1934	4.984
West of the Divide	'Dusty'	1934	5.155
The Star Packer	Matt Matlock	1934	4.474
The Lawless Frontier	Dusty	1934	4.727
Riders of Destiny	Charlie Denton	1933	5.242

Known for	Acting
Credits	30
Born	1885
From	Wellsville, New York, …

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