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George 'Gabby' Hayes
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…
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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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1987
It's Howdy Doody Time: A 40-Year Celebration
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1978
Western von gestern
TV show Gabby Whittaker (archive footage)
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1976
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Movie (archive footage)
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1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1958
The Western: A Lost TV Special
Movie Self
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1956
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV show Self
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1956
The Gabby Hayes Show
TV show Narrator
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1950
The Gabby Hayes Show
TV show Himself
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1950
The Cariboo Trail
Movie Grizzly
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1950
What's My Line?
TV show Self
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1949
El Paso
Movie Pesky Tees
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1948
The Untamed Breed
Movie Windy Lucas
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1948
Return of the Bad Men
Movie John Pettit
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1948
Albuquerque
Movie Juke
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1947
Wyoming
Movie Windy Gibson
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1947
Trail Street
Movie Billy Jones
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1946
Heldorado
Movie Gabby Whittaker
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1946
Home in Oklahoma
Movie Gabby Whittaker
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1946
Roll on Texas Moon
Movie Gabby Whittaker
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1946
Under Nevada Skies
Movie Gabby Whittaker
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1946
My Pal Trigger
Movie Gabby Kendrick
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1946
Rainbow Over Texas
Movie Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker
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1946
Badman's Territory
Movie Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid
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1946
Song of Arizona
Movie Gabby Whittaker
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1945
Don't Fence Me In
Movie Gabby Whittaker
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1945
Sunset in El Dorado
Movie Gabby
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1945
Along the Navajo Trail
Movie Gabby Whittaker
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1945
Man from Oklahoma
Movie Gabby Whittaker
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1945
Bells of Rosarita
Movie Gabby Whittake
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1945
Utah
Movie Gabby Whittaker
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1944
The Big Bonanza
Movie Hap Selby
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1944
Lights of Old Santa Fe
Movie Gabby Whittaker
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1944
Tall in the Saddle
Movie Dave
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1944
Marshal of Reno
Movie Gabby
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1944
Tucson Raiders
Movie 'Gabby' Hopkins
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1944
Hidden Valley Outlaws
Movie Gabby Hayes
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1944
Mojave Firebrand
Movie Gabby Hayes
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1943
In Old Oklahoma
Movie Despirit Dean
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1943
Death Valley Manhunt
Movie Gabby Hayes
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1943
Overland Mail Robbery
Movie Gabby
