Date of birth: 1885-05-06
Place of birth: Wellsville, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: George Francis Hayes, George Hayes, George Francis "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.

1946-07-10
Gabby doesn't want to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy's. When Sovereign and Roy's hors

1933-10-10
James Kincaid controls the local water supply and plans to do away with the other ranchers. Governme

1934-06-05
Bandits lead by Matt the Mute enter a bar and kill multiple people. Randy Bowers comes to town and i

1935-10-17
Sheriff John Higgins quits and goes into prospecting after he thinks he has killed his best friend i

1934-01-22
Jerry Mason, a young Texan, and Jake Benson, an old rancher, become partners and strike it rich with

1936-04-09
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and

1934-02-15
Ted Hayden impersonates a wanted man and joins Gentry's gang only to learn later that Gentry was the

1940-04-15
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place,

1943-12-06
Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklah

1948-02-20
Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar

1944-09-29
When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been

1934-07-30
John Travers and Yak, his faithful Indian sidekick, pick up where a murdered sheriff leaves off, and

1935-05-14
Right after the Civil War, an ex-Union soldier sets out to become a schoolmaster in his small town,

1935-03-06
An evil scientist invents a earthquake machine and plots to take over the world from his base in Afr

1941-09-05
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.

1946-05-04
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a

1940-09-15
Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke

1940-07-01
The Carson City Kid and partner Laramie are outlaws. When his partner is caught the Kid, his identit

1934-11-22
Tobin is after the bandit Zanti who killed his parents. He finds him just as Zanti is about to kill

1936-01-29
Janet Allison witnesses Art Holden and his gang hold up the Station Agent. When she identifies Holde

1935-10-01
When Buck is young his cattle stealing father is killed. Now grown Buck returns home still carrying

1936-08-28
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to

1938-12-16
The local school is causing Hoppy problems. First Bar 20 cattle are stolen when Hoppy investigates a

1935-10-25
When the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy's life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson.

1938-07-07
Caldwell and Nixon have their men rob the stage and then critcize the Sheriff for not catching the r

1938-09-09
Escaped criminal "The Fox" hates Hoppy and a Rurales colonel for imprisoning him and lures Cassidy t

1939-03-31
Hoppy goes undercover as a gambler from the East when Bar 20 cattle are stolen by unknown rustlers.

1938-06-24
Hoppy's friend Dennis owns a rich gold mine. Frazier who owns the adjoining mine and wants the Denni

1939-07-25
Hoppy goes to town to help Marshal Windy with some rustlers and winds up helping the widow Joyce whe

1939-02-24
Disguising himself as a milquetoast Easterner who writes Western novels, Hoppy enrolls in a dude ran

1936-04-14
An evil gang is involved in both cattle rustling and the robbing of stagecoaches. Hoppy must stop th

1937-08-20
On a cattle drive Hoppy, camp cook Windy, companion Lucky, and young Artie Peters encounter an eccen

1936-10-16
A crusading newspaper editor recruits his old friend Hoppy to take the job of Marshall in a town rif

1937-06-28
Hoppy's brother has been murdered and he is on the trail of the murderers. To get them he makes hims

1935-08-23
An evil ranch foreman tries to provoke a range war by playing two cattlemen against each other while

1937-07-23
Hoppy clears Lucky on a charge of bank robbery and foils the plot of a crooked lawyer to rustle a he

1936-02-24
Problems come in the form of one of Hopalong Cassidy's neighbors, but the matter is settled when Hop

1936-03-06
Hoppy returns to find Johnny in trouble. Buck Peters has been shot by Porter who made it look like J

1935-12-06
Cattle rustler Nevada dreams of living like an emperor in the West. Hoppy and the Bar 20 boys aim to

1937-02-26
Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) t

1937-11-26
The U.S. Army needs more horses for the Spanish-American War. Hoppy must turn his Bar 20 cowhands in

1938-04-22
Belle Starr has returned from time in prison only to face a hail of bullets, along with rescue by Ho

1937-04-16
An evil deputy is using Indian half-breeds to rustle cattle. This causes trouble between the cattlem

1936-12-11
Hoppy, Johnny and Windy are fighting a malicious gang trying to stop a cattle drive from reaching a

1946-10-18
In this Roy Rogers entry, featuring a song written by Oklahoma Governor Roy J. Turner (making him an

1944-11-06
Sandwiched in between the numerous musical numbers, the Gabby Whittaker and Madden rodeo's are compe

1941-05-07
The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the

1942-09-14
Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward.

1945-06-19
Sue Farnum inherits a circus, but her dead father's partner is trying to take it away from her. Roy

1946-12-15
Roy Rogers, a Nevada State Ranger Captain in charge of the Rangers Reclamation Service, makes a trip

1946-09-12
To get the Delaney ranch Cole's henchman Anders has started a phony range war between the cattlemen

1940-12-05
Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an ou

1940-10-21
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are tryi

1946-08-26
Rodeo star Roy Rogers returns home to find that his old friend Tom Craig has been murdered after he

1934-05-15
The Marshal sends John Weston to a rodeo to see if he can find out who is killing the rodeo riders w

1935-03-15
John Martin is a government agent working under cover. Leading citizen Morgan calls in gunman Galt w

1934-05-10
When Sheriff Jake sees a man at the safe and then finds the payroll gone, he trails him. Just as he

1929-05-16
The Rainbow Man is a 1929 black and white American musical film.

1947-02-19
Bat Masterson's old friend Billy Burns convinces him to become marshal of Liberal, Kansas and help t

1936-02-15
Federal Agents Tipton and Bridger have been sent to Wyoming where the vote on statehood is imminent.

1945-09-29
The story involves a rather odd flashback by Dale who is visiting El Dorado, home of her grandmother

1941-04-04
Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapaho

1940-04-11
It's 1860 and the old Spanish land grants are being surveyed. Montez is after part of Don Regas' ran

1932-04-03
Jim Gray is looking for the gang leader known as the General. When Neil Denham is murdered, Jim assu

1934-06-01
A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'Blue Ste

1934-06-01
A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'The Star

1934-06-01
A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'West of

1939-09-28
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outla

1946-05-09
Roy visits his home town while on a personal appearance tour. While there he enters a pony express r

1944-12-30
Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton es

1941-12-12
To bring water to their valley, ranchers have raised money to build a dam. When that money is stolen

1942-12-30
Roy Rogers takes on crooked wartime profiteers in the musical western Ridin' Down the Canyon. Posing

1939-03-19
Roy and Gabby return to Gabby's Texas ranch, after fighting with the Confederate military during the

1942-11-16
Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to

1940-07-30
While Sam Houston in in the nation's capital trying to get Texas into the Union, his aide is trying

1942-01-16
Roy is a government man assigned to a case of cattle rustling in the part of the country where he gr

1942-04-01
Judge Kirby is being blackmailed and forced to let outlaws go free. He was once the partner of Roy's

1942-02-17
To get the three needed business men to visit the Stevens mine, Roy stages a ride with the Vacaros a

1932-08-29
Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient

1932-08-22
Officer John Brown is after the outlaw known as the Night Rider. Posing as Jim Blake he takes a job

1932-07-15
Jimmy's uncle gives him 30 days probation on Kirk's ranch to control his temper or lose his inherita

1933-08-04
Money is mysteriously disappearing from a locked trunk atop the stage even though the trunk arrives

1934-11-15
Gangster Chandler and his accomplice Tracy arrive at a dude ranch. Cowboy Kentucky arrives at the sa

1933-05-24
Jimmy, a young boy, idolizes famed train engineer Casey Jones and is devastated when his hero is kil

1934-05-20
A man wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of the real killer. The prob

1945-03-21
A singing ranch foreman (Roy Rogers) and his friend (George "Gabby" Hayes) urge a chorus-girl heires

1948-07-17
US Marshall Vance is assigned to rid the Oklahoma Territory of outlaws.

1939-05-15
The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republ

1944-07-02
One of two towns will be selected to be the County Seat and Editor Palmer has a gang working to make

1941-10-17
When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for t

1935-06-21
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.

1939-12-20
Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank ro

1944-05-14
In Elliot's initial appearance as Red Ryder, he finds himself framed for murder. Little Beaver then

1946-03-08
Roy Rogers rides to the rescue when a bank robber's orphaned son (Tommy Cook), who is living at a ra

1941-01-14
Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Fol

1942-05-18
Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Ro

1935-09-05
Traveling with Doc Parker's medicine show, Gene finds his old friend Harry Brooks wounded and the Sh

1939-02-24
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.

1931-07-28
When the Nevada Kid gets caught in a stage robbery, the gang leader Cherokee gets him released by fo

1932-04-23
The Rangers in New Mexico are being disbanded but Bob Houston gets them to make one more ride. They

1935-07-01
A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walk

1942-07-02
A singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solv

1949-03-22
Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan
1932-08-08
Charles 'Chic' Sale gets in the middle of a train robbery!

1950-08-01
A cattleman fights to establish a ranch in the middle of gold country.

1939-11-17
When Tasker kills Roy Rogers he takes one of his young sons. Fifteen years later the other son Roy a

1930-07-19
William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks

1931-12-14
A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime

1976-05-01
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features.

1939-08-14
The U.S. Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who l

1941-06-19
The conflict between a railroader and a stage line owner is being aggravated by bad guys who are sab

1932-05-05
A man escapes from prison, then joins up with a gang of stage robbers while at the same time working

1934-11-02
Trouble starts when Bill Larkins and his two sons move in with his brother Joe. They start rustling

1938-02-12
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a

1935-05-25
The McLean and Brennan ranches are both losing cattle to rustlers and each blames the other when cat

1935-12-28
Brit Amelia Blake travels to America to join her son Alfred. Fate forces her to hitchhike to Califor

1931-11-15
Burgess and Greeley are rustling horses and shooting Indians. When they kill Manual they frame Lieut

1930-01-10
New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich play

1935-02-28
Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decid

1933-08-29
A cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where her

1936-11-16
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

1929-09-06
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he did

1930-08-24
An order clerk poses as a millionaire.

1935-04-24
Jimmy Dixon, pursued by a band of Mexicans, changes clothes with a tramp, who takes off on his horse

1945-09-15
U.S. Deputy Marshal Roy investigates the disappearance of a government agent who has come to Dale's

1939-08-06
When his ranch falls on hard times, Cowboy Roy Roger has trouble making his mortgage payment and he

1935-04-01
The parents (Horace B. Carpenter)(Vane Calvert) of Smokey Smith (Bob Steele) are murdered while trav

1934-04-14
The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of b

1943-11-25
Unknown to oil company president Ross, his man Quinn is pulling a swindle on the independent driller

1943-07-08
Cameo Shelby is running a crooked lottery out of El Paso and treasury agent Bill Elliott has been se

1936-10-06
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after

1944-04-01
Lawyer Leland is using land rights to kick the ranchers off their land. When Wild Bill and Gabby arr

1934-08-28
A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough west

1939-06-19
Americans come west to California in the hope of peaceful settlement. Roy and Gabby sing a duet: "We

1932-01-15
Con artists use a member of a European royal family to swindle a major jewelry company.

1931-02-01
Dirigible commander Jack Braden and Navy pilot 'Frisky' Pierce fight over the glory associated with

1933-08-14
When his Ranger father is shot down and seriously wounded by rustlers, young Bob Baxter is given a R

1933-05-28
The circus arrives in Great Shows. Rainey Big Ben and Kit Denton, the star of the show, are informed

1935-12-12
Swifty is framed for the murder of Alec MeNiel by the Lawyer Cheevers and the stepson Price. Then th

1945-10-20
Wildcat Kelly has been dead and buried for years. Or has he? Dale is a reporter for an Eastern magaz

1940-06-19
David Cook and twin brother Tom are poles apart in disposition and traits. When their father dies, T

1933-05-15
As Powers is dying he tells Lee to look for a man with a girl named Mitzi. Heading north by dog sled

1936-01-25
Johnny Mack Brown goes in search of a treasure map tattooed on the chest of a man who once betrayed

1935-03-15
A masked bandit being chased by a posse is wounded but manages to lose them. He is taken in by a fem

1945-07-01
The feuding Lanes and Whittakers are brought together with the help of Roy Rogers, when a business t

1943-08-18
Cowboys side with an Indian doctor against crooks and bad water.

1935-09-27
Gold mining cowboy western romantic melodrama (based on the story by Zane Grey) about a pair of cowb

1948-10-20
A cowboy sets out to capture an escaped Brahma bull that is terrorizing local ranchers. Based on a s

1932-12-15
Steele gets into a fight with a ranch foreman, knocking the foreman out. The foreman was supposed to

1935-10-21
Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend

1943-04-30
When territorial governor Steven Nichols (Herbert Heyes) terrorizes the population with violence and
1939-01-06
A prize-winning stallion breeds off-guard with a mare owned by his rival. The colt is trained to rac

1933-09-08
A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws

1936-03-15
A cowboy realizes too late that his girlfriend's father had been cheated out of everything in a croo

1931-04-04
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to ra

1934-01-22
Claim jumpers originally released as Lucky Texan in 1934 by Monogram Pictures Corp

1936-04-25
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the towns

1931-06-12
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfrie

1940-09-15
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Ce

1932-07-16
Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peg

1934-03-15
Police try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.

1943-06-11
In this western, a cowboy and his pals must stop outlaws from stealing a cache of gold ore. Action e

1933-06-01
A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. Howeve

1930-05-15
A meek husband takes lessons on how to take control of his dominating wife.

1943-11-20
The Hartley--Goodrich stage line suffers a double blow when its founders, Frank Hartley and Marcus G

1944-03-19
In this western, a crusty old sourdough finally finds the silver mine of his dreams only to find his

1932-11-25
Chane Weymer, an Arizona rancher, goes after a gang that is trapping wild horses by the use of barbe

1947-07-28
Small ranchers battle against a land baron trying to take their spreads.

1933-03-01
Joe has Cowboy-Race Driver Brent drive him to the border where his men slug Brent, and he shoots Sta

1932-03-12
A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.

1932-10-18
Kincade and Blake cause a mail plane carrying a payroll to make a forced landing in the desert. When

1975-08-06
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent

1932-08-18
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess livi

1934-04-13
A pair of barbers attempt to solve a kidnapping.

1934-03-30
Out of the Mystic Temples of Old India crept this terrible Monster to wreak vengeance of the Hindu G

1934-12-05
Chris Morrell, the guardian of half-Indian girl Nina, is helping her find her missing white father.

1937-06-18
Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows

1931-05-01
A government agent is sent to a tough frontier town to arrest & bring back one of the most ruthless

1935-05-14
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father'

1932-10-10
Cowboy is hired by an archaeologist to help find "Hidden Valley", where an Indian gold treasure is s

1931-10-10
A gambler sets out to help a pretty young woman save her trading post.

1932-12-15
Katy Devoux runs a gambling-drinking joint in British Columbia. She is a fair-playing business woman

1932-09-09
A cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket out

1933-03-14
A handsome radio singer has it all--fame, money, adoring fans--but what no one knows is that his acc

1933-06-15
Randolph Graves, a high-pressure haberdashery salesman, is fired for arguing with a customer and get

1933-06-01
When Tad Wallace's act flops on Broadway, he joins a troop heading west. In a small town, they run i

1933-07-15
A half a million dollars has been stolen and stashed away and prison inmate Dutch knows where it is.

1933-08-20
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name

1934-02-21
John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Desti

1919-08-10
A husband longs for children, but his wife has no desire for children.

1929-07-22
A pretty, young violinist who travels from Ireland to America to seek fame and fortune on Broadway f

1935-07-05
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.

1934-05-15
Edited version of The Man from Utah. In a horse-riding rodeo contest bad guys want John Weston to l

1934-11-22
Edited version of The Lawless Frontier. Mexican outlaw Zanti killed John Tobin's parents. John team

1934-06-18
Edited version of Randy Rides Alone. Jailed for murders he didn't commit, Randy escapes only to stu

1958-06-08
A 1958 TV special celebrating westerns featuring John Wayne, John Ford, Gary Cooper, Gene Autry, Gab