George 'Gabby' Hayes
1885-05-06 ( 139 years old ) in 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. 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.

Movies

El Paso 1949-03-22
Albuquerque 1948-02-20
Wyoming 1947-07-28
Trail Street 1947-02-19
Heldorado 1946-12-15
My Pal Trigger 1946-07-10
Utah 1945-03-21
Tucson Raiders 1944-05-14
Nevada City 1941-06-19
Colorado 1940-09-15
Melody Ranch 1940-09-15
Dark Command 1940-04-15
Renegade Trail 1939-07-25
Southward Ho! 1939-03-19
Sunset Trail 1939-02-24
In Old Mexico 1938-09-09
Bar 20 Justice 1938-06-24
Texas Trail 1937-11-26
Mountain Music 1937-06-18
Borderland 1937-02-26
Trail Dust 1936-12-11
The Plainsman 1936-11-16
Silver Spurs 1936-01-29
Swifty 1935-12-12
Texas Terror 1935-10-17
The Throwback 1935-10-01
Smokey Smith 1935-04-01
Rainbow Valley 1935-03-15
The Lost City 1935-03-06
Next Of Kin 1934-06-01
Blue Steel 1934-05-10
City Limits 1934-04-14
Mystery Liner 1934-03-15
Claim Jumpers 1934-01-22
Skyway 1933-08-29
Ranger's Code 1933-08-14
The Fugitive 1933-07-15
The Sphinx 1933-06-01
Trailing North 1933-05-15
Self Defense 1932-12-15
Texas Buddies 1932-10-18
Hidden Valley 1932-10-10
Klondike 1932-08-29
Border Devils 1932-04-03
Play Girl 1932-03-12
Dragnet Patrol 1931-12-14
Oklahoma Jim 1931-10-10
Dirigible 1931-02-01
Top Speed 1930-08-24
Playing Around 1930-01-10
Big News 1929-09-06
Rainbow Man 1929-05-16