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.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	3.72
Birthday	1885-05-06
Place of Birth	Wellsville, New York, USA
Also Known As	George Francis Hayes, George Hayes, George Francis "Gabby" Hayes,

My Pal Trigger

Riders of Destiny

Randy Rides Alone

Texas Terror

The Lucky Texan

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

West of the Divide

Dark Command

In Old Oklahoma

Albuquerque

Tall in the Saddle

The Star Packer

The Hoosier Schoolmaster

The Lost City

Bad Man of Deadwood

Badman's Territory

Colorado

The Carson City Kid

The Lawless Frontier

Silver Spurs

The Throwback

The Texas Rangers

The Frontiersmen

The Eagle's Brood

Pride of the West

In Old Mexico

Silver on the Sage

Bar 20 Justice

Renegade Trail

Sunset Trail

Three on the Trail

Hopalong Rides Again

Hopalong Cassidy Returns

North of the Rio Grande

Hop-a-long Cassidy

Rustlers' Valley

Heart of the West

Call of the Prairie

Bar 20 Rides Again

Borderland

Texas Trail

Heart of Arizona

Hills of Old Wyoming

Trail Dust

Home in Oklahoma

Lights of Old Santa Fe

Sheriff of Tombstone

Sunset Serenade

Bells of Rosarita

Heldorado

Roll on Texas Moon

The Border Legion

Young Bill Hickok

Under Nevada Skies

The Man from Utah

Rainbow Valley

Blue Steel

Rainbow Man

Trail Street

The Lawless Nineties

Sunset in El Dorado

In Old Cheyenne

Young Buffalo Bill

Border Devils

Bandits of the Badlands

The Shadow Gang

Next Of Kin

The Arizona Kid

Rainbow Over Texas

The Big Bonanza

Red River Valley

Ridin' Down the Canyon

Southward Ho!

Heart of the Golden West

The Ranger and the Lady

Man from Cheyenne

Sunset on the Desert

South of Santa Fe

Klondike

The Night Rider