George 'Gabby' Hayes

Acting

George 'Gabby' Hayes

Born 1885-05-06 Wellsville, New York, USA 197 films

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…

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Filmography

197 films
Southward Ho! poster

Roy and Gabby return to Gabby's Texas ranch, after fighting with the Confederate military during th…

Southward Ho!

★ 5.5 1939

Sunset Trail poster

Disguising himself as a milquetoast Easterner who writes Western novels, Hoppy enrolls in a dude ra…

Sunset Trail

★ 6.3 1939

In Old Mexico poster

Escaped criminal "The Fox" hates Hoppy and a Rurales colonel for imprisoning him and lures Cassidy…

In Old Mexico

★ 6.7 1938

Bar 20 Justice poster

Hoppy's friend Dennis owns a rich gold mine. Frazier who owns the adjoining mine and wants the Denn…

Bar 20 Justice

★ 5.4 1938

Texas Trail poster

The U.S. Army needs more horses for the Spanish-American War. Hoppy must turn his Bar 20 cowhands i…

Texas Trail

★ 6.3 1937