About
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,...
Known for
Western von gesternSeries • 1978
Mr. Deeds Goes to TownMovie • 1936
Tall in the SaddleMovie • 1944
In Old OklahomaMovie • 1943
Love Me TonightMovie • 1932
The Man from UtahMovie • 1934
Dark CommandMovie • 1940
Return of the Bad MenMovie • 1948
The PlainsmanMovie • 1936
The Texas RangersMovie • 1936
Blue SteelMovie • 1934
The Lucky TexanMovie • 1934
'Neath the Arizona SkiesMovie • 1934
West of the DivideMovie • 1934
The Lawless FrontierMovie • 1934
The Cariboo TrailMovie • 1950
Randy Rides AloneMovie • 1934
The Star PackerMovie • 1934
Texas TerrorMovie • 1935
Riders of DestinyMovie • 1933
The Stolen JoolsMovie • 1931
AlbuquerqueMovie • 1948
Rainbow ValleyMovie • 1935