
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.

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

Sons of the Pioneers

Along the Navajo Trail

She Who Gets Slapped

Red River Valley

Western von gestern

オペラハット

Man from Cheyenne

Ridin' Down the Canyon

Marshal of Reno

What's My Line?

Gold Is Where You Find It

Albuquerque

Sheriff of Tombstone

Hitch Hike Lady

Trailing North

Love Me Tonight

Tall in the Saddle

The Ranger and the Lady

The Gabby Hayes Show

The Texas Rangers

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

Trail Street

The Plainsman

Dark Command

Return of the Bad Men

Beggars in Ermine

The Cariboo Trail

In Old Oklahoma

Home in Oklahoma

Tumbling Tumbleweeds

Saga of Death Valley

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

The Farmer Takes a Wife

Hopalong Cassidy Returns

Roll on Texas Moon

Rainbow Over Texas

The Return of Casey Jones

Let Freedom Ring

Top Speed

Sally of the Subway

Wagons Westward

Man from Oklahoma

Calling Wild Bill Elliott

Big Business Girl

Wyoming

Texas Buddies

Hidden Valley

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

The Gabby Hayes Show

Monte Carlo Nights

The Arizona Kid

Sunset on the Desert

Melody Ranch

Badman's Territory

Romance on the Range

El Paso

$1,000 a Minute

Heldorado

The Stolen Jools

Colorado

The Carson City Kid

Hopalong Rides Again

North of the Rio Grande

Sunset Serenade

The Big Bonanza

The Fighting Champ

My Pal Trigger

Bells of Rosarita

Honeymoon Limited

Mountain Music

Hop-a-long Cassidy

Rustlers' Valley

In Old Monterey

Border Devils

Don't Fence Me In

Lights of Old Santa Fe

The Lawless Nineties

Dragnet Patrol

Skyway

Riders of Destiny

Sunset in El Dorado

The Lost City

West of the Divide

Sunset Trail

Bar 20 Rides Again

Borderland

Texas Trail

Heart of Arizona

Under Nevada Skies

In Old Santa Fe

Utah

Man of Conquest

Robin Hood of the Pecos

Nevada City

Death Flies East

Smokey Smith

Death Valley Manhunt

In Old Caliente

Dirigible

The Untamed Breed

Song of the Trail

The Man from Thunder River

Young Bill Hickok

The Lucky Texan

Randy Rides Alone

For the Defense

Cavalier of the West

The Eagle's Brood

The Sphinx

Blue Steel

Bar 20 Justice

Call of the Prairie

Rainbow Valley

Klondike

Days of Jesse James

The Brand of Hate

Wall Street Cowboy

I Married a Doctor

Winner Take All

House of Mystery

'Neath the Arizona Skies

Texas Terror

The Lawless Frontier

The Man from Utah

Three on the Trail

South of Santa Fe

Ladies Crave Excitement

Riders of the Desert

The Man from Hell

Play Girl

The Star Packer

Bad Man of Deadwood

The Border Legion

Broadway to Cheyenne

Song of Arizona

The Phantom Broadcast

Playing Around

Jesse James at Bay

Big News

Young Buffalo Bill

Mystery Liner

In Old Cheyenne

The Frontiersmen

Pride of the West

Renegade Trail

Heart of the West

Trail Dust

Southward Ho!

The Boiling Point

The Man from Hell's Edges

Tombstone Terror

City Limits

The Headline Woman

Crashing Broadway

The Hoosier Schoolmaster

In Old Mexico

Silver on the Sage

Hills of Old Wyoming

Mojave Firebrand

Ship of Wanted Men

Heart of the Golden West

Bedlam of Beards

Silver Spurs

The Throwback

Rainbow Man

Bandits of the Badlands

The Shadow Gang

Next Of Kin

The Night Rider

Galloping Romeo

Tucson Raiders

The Nevada Buckaroo

Justice of the Range

Bordertown Gun Fighters

Hidden Valley Outlaws

Ranger's Code

The Gallant Fool

Swifty

Valley of the Lawless

The Outlaw Tamer

Wagon Tracks West

Thunder Mountain

Claim Jumpers

Overland Mail Robbery

Wild Horse Mesa

Breed of the Border

God's Country and the Man

Oklahoma Jim

Self Defense

Fighting Texans

The Fugitive

The Devil's Mate

The House Without Children

Smiling Irish Eyes

Rodeo Rocketeers

Vengence is Mine

The Drifter

The Western: A Lost TV Special