George 'Gabby' Hayes
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.
Acting
Movie
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
as Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)
1936
Movie
Love Me Tonight
as Grocer (uncredited)
1932
Movie
Tall in the Saddle
as Dave
1944
Movie
Dark Command
as Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
1940
Movie
In Old Oklahoma
as Despirit Dean
1943
Movie
Return of the Bad Men
as John Pettit
1948
Movie
Blue Steel
as Sheriff Jake Withers
1934
Movie
The Star Packer
as Matt Matlock
1934
Movie
'Neath the Arizona Skies
as Matt Downing
1934
Movie
The Plainsman
as Breezy
1936
Movie
Texas Terror
as Sheriff Ed Williams
1935
Movie
Randy Rides Alone
as - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute
1934
Movie
The Lawless Frontier
as Dusty
1934
Movie
Riders of Destiny
as Charlie Denton
1933
Movie
The Stolen Jools
as Projectionist
1931
Movie
The Lucky Texan
as Jake 'Grandy' Benson
1934
Movie
West of the Divide
as 'Dusty'
1934
Movie
The Man from Utah
as Marshal George Higgins
1934
TV
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
Movie
Rainbow Valley
as George Hale
1935
Movie
The Cariboo Trail
as Grizzly
1950
Movie
The Texas Rangers
as Judge Snow
1936
Movie
Albuquerque
as Juke
1948
Movie
El Paso
as Pesky Tees
1949