George 'Gabby' Hayes
from Wellsville, New York, USA
from 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.
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Grizzly
Pesky Tees
Juke
John Pettit
Windy Lucas
Billy Jones
Windy Gibson
Gabby Whittaker
Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid
Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker
Gabby Kendrick
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Gabby Hayes
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'Gabby' Hopkins
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Dave
Gabby Whittaker
Hap Selby
Gabby Hayes
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Despirit Dean
Gabby Whittaker
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Gabriel Gabby Hornaday
Arapaho Brown
Gabby
Gabby Chapman
Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone
Sheriff Gabby Whitaker
Gabby Whittaker
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Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
Hardtack
Gabby Whittaker
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Pop Laramie
Gabby
'Gabby' Whitaker
Honest John Whittaker
Gramps Montrose
Pop Wilkie
Windy Halliday
Gabby
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Lannie Upchurch
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Gabby Whittaker
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Enoch
Windy Halliday
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Granpappy Burnside
Windy Halliday
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Grandpaw Jenkins
Drag Harlan
Major Carter
Windy Jenkins
Shanghai McHenry
Dan Hobson
Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)
Windy Halliday
Train Station Agent
Judge Snow
Bearded Man
Windy Halliday
Breezy
Windy Halliday
Wotkyns
Butterfield
Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes)
George Hale
Blaze Bart
Soupy Baxter
Pearson (as George Hayes)
Duffy
John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson
McCloskey
Pinkham
Lucas
Uncle Ben
Dr. Parker
Foley
Ford Cruze
Sheriff Ed Williams
New Deal Watson
Spike
Windy Halliday
Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes)
Miner
Jake Benson
Jake 'Grandy' Benson
'Dusty'
Joe Wilson
Joe, the Watchman
David Fells
(Unknown)
Charlie Carter
Sheriff Jake Withers
Marshall George
Marshal George Higgins
Inspector Nick Gunby
Sheriff Jake Withers
Matt Matlock
'Dusty'
- Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute
Marvin Black
Matt Matlock
Banker Colonel Campbell
Bill Larkins
Cactus
Dusty
Dusty
Matt Downing
Chuck Wiggins
Police Lieutenant
Flash Ryan
Timothy Shine
Dad Denton
Detective Casey
J. Talbot Thorndyke
Pop Martin
Judge Tyler
Grizzly
Baxter (as George Hayes)
Collins
George Taylor
Crewman
Charlie Denton
Police Lieutenant Paxton
Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)
Squint Sanders
Hashknife Brooks
Shamrock Cassidy
George Duncan
Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited)
A Slip at the Switch
Deputy Smoot
Grocer (uncredited)
Altoonie
Tom Ross
Walrus
Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat
Si Haller
Slack
Jury Foreman
Pete
Parade Official (uncredited)
Projectionist
Stingaree Kelly
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Cherokee Williams
Crooked Gambler
Sheriff Bill Ryan
Private Detective
Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited)
Poker Player
Ben (the waiter)
Western Union Clerk
Bill
Taxi Driver
Hoffman
Archibald Ponsonby