George 'Gabby' Hayes
Acting
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.
Born: May 6, 1885
Place of Birth: Wellsville, New York, USA
Known For
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features.
She Who Gets Slapped
A meek husband takes lessons on how to take control of his dominating wife.
Red River Valley
To bring water to their valley, ranchers have raised money to build a dam. When that money is stolen, Allison suggests the ranchers sell their stock to a friend of his thereby getting the money needed to complete the dam. Roy has a clue that Allison was involved in the robbery and is out to get control of the valley. So Roy and the boys try to delay the sale of the stock while they look for proof against Allison.
Western von gestern
Western von gestern is a German television series.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Man from Cheyenne
Roy is a government man assigned to a case of cattle rustling in the part of the country where he grew up, unaware that the leader of the gang is a woman, in fact an old flame.
Ridin' Down the Canyon
Roy Rogers takes on crooked wartime profiteers in the musical western Ridin' Down the Canyon. Posing as solid citizens, the crooks spend their evening hours stealing horses from local ranchers, then selling the steeds to the government at exorbitant prices. The head of the bad guys runs a dude ranch where Rogers and his pals (The Sons of the Pioneers) are employed.
Marshal of Reno
One of two towns will be selected to be the County Seat and Editor Palmer has a gang working to make sure his town is chosen. Investigating the lawlessness, Red Ryder poses as an outlaw to get into the gang hoping to find out who the boss is. But Palmer knows Red and exposes his true identity when he arrives and Red and Gabby then find themselves prisoners of the gang. [Written by Maurice Van Auken]
What's My Line?
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
Gold Is Where You Find It
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
Filmography
as Gabby Whittaker (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Narrator
as Himself
as Grizzly
as Self
as Pesky Tees
as Windy Lucas
as John Pettit
as Juke
as Windy Gibson
as Billy Jones
as Gabby Whittaker
as Gabby Whittaker
as Gabby Whittaker
as Gabby Whittaker
as Gabby Kendrick
as Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker
as Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid
as Gabby Whittaker
as Gabby Whittaker
as Gabby
as Gabby Whittaker
as Gabby Whittaker
as Gabby Whittake
as Gabby Whittaker
as Hap Selby
as Gabby Whittaker
as Dave
as Gabby
as 'Gabby' Hopkins
as Gabby Hayes
as Gabby Hayes
as Despirit Dean
as Gabby Hayes
as Gabby
as Gabby
as Gabby Hayes
as Gabby Whittaker
as Gabby Hayes
as Gabby
as Gabby
as Gabby
as Gabby Whittaker
as Gabby
as Gabby Whittaker
as Gabby Whittaker
as Gabby Whittaker
as Gabby Whittaker
as Sheriff Gabby Whitaker
as Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone
as Gabby Chapman
as Gabby
as Arapaho Brown
as Gabriel Gabby Hornaday
as Honest John Whittaker
as 'Gabby' Whitaker
as Pop Laramie
as Gabby
as Gabby Whittaker
as Gabby Whittaker
as Hardtack
as Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
as Gabby Whittaker
as Gabby
as Gabby
as Gabby Whittaker
as Gabby Whittaker
as Gabby
as Windy Halliday
as Gabby
as Lannie Upchurch
as Windy Halliday
as Gabby
as Pop Wilkie
as Windy Halliday
as Windy Halliday
as Windy Halliday
as Windy Halliday
as Windy Halliday
as Windy Halliday
as Enoch
as Windy Halliday
as Windy Halliday
as Windy Halliday
as Windy Halliday
as Granpappy Burnside
as Windy Halliday
as Windy Halliday
as Windy Halliday
as Breezy
as Windy Halliday
as Bearded Man
as Judge Snow
as Train Station Agent
as Windy Halliday
as Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)
as Dan Hobson
as Shanghai McHenry
as Windy Jenkins
as Major Carter
as Drag Harlan
as Grandpaw Jenkins
as Miner
as Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)
as Windy Halliday
as Spike
as New Deal Watson
as Sheriff Ed Williams
as Ford Cruze
as Foley
as Dr. Parker
as Uncle Ben
as Lucas
as Pinkham
as McCloskey
as John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson
as Duffy
as Pearson (as George Hayes)
as Soupy Baxter
as Blaze Bart
as George Hale
as Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)
as Butterfield
as Wotkyns
as Matt Downing
as Dusty
as Dusty
as Cactus
as Bill Larkins
as Banker Colonel Campbell
as Matt Matlock
as Marvin Black
as - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute
as Sheriff Jake Withers
as Matt Matlock
as 'Dusty'
as Inspector Nick Gunby
as Marshal George Higgins
as Marshall George
as Sheriff Jake Withers
as Charlie Carter
as David Fells
as Joe, the Watchman
as Joe Wilson
as 'Dusty'
as Jake 'Grandy' Benson
as Jake Benson
as Charlie Denton
as Crewman
as George Taylor
as Collins
as Baxter (as George Hayes)
as Grizzly
as Judge Tyler
as Pop Martin
as Detective Casey
as J. Talbot Thorndyke
as Dad Denton
as Timothy Shine
as Flash Ryan
as Police Lieutenant
as Chuck Wiggins
as Pete
as Jury Foreman
as Slack
as Si Haller
as Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat
as Walrus
as Tom Ross
as Altoonie
as Grocer (uncredited)
as Deputy Smoot
as Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)
as George Duncan
as Shamrock Cassidy
as Hashknife Brooks
as Squint Sanders
as Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)
as Police Lieutenant Paxton
as Private Detective
as Sheriff Bill Ryan
as Crooked Gambler
as Cherokee Williams
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
as Stingaree Kelly
as Projectionist
as Parade Official (uncredited)
as Western Union Clerk
as Ben (the waiter)
as Poker Player
as Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited)
as Hoffman
as Taxi Driver
as Bill
as Archibald Ponsonby