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George Francis "Gabby" Hayes (7 May 1885 – 9 February 1969) was an American actor. He began as something of a leading man and a character player, but he was best known for his numerous appearances in B- Western film series as the bewhiskered, cantankerous, but ever-loyal and brave comic sidekick of the cowboy stars Roy Rogers and John Wayne .
American character actor, the most famous of Western-movie sidekicks of the 1930s and 1940s. He was born May 7, 1885, the third of seven children, in the Hayes Hotel (owned by his father) in the tiny hamlet of Stannards, New York, on the outskirts of Wellsville, New York.
American character actor, the most famous of Western-movie sidekicks of the 1930s and 1940s. He was born May 7, 1885, the third of seven children, in the Hayes Hotel (owned by his father) in the tiny hamlet of Stannards, New York, on the outskirts of Wellsville, New York.
He is best remembered for his appearances in Western films as the colorful eccentric sidekick to the leading man. His career in radio, film, and television spanned from the late 1920s into the 1950s.
George 'Gabby' Hayes was a famous character actor in movies during the 1930's and 1940's and later on television. He made his name in Western movies playing the sidekick to stars like Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry.
George Francis Hayes was born in Wellsville, N.Y., on May 7, 1885. As a youth, he ran away from home and joined a traveling road show. He was in vaudeville for many years and...
The life and death of classic sidekick and character actor George "Gabby" Hayes, from his birth in his father's hotel to his time as a Shakespearian great, to his beloved roles as sidekick to...
As a young man, George Hayes worked in a circus and played semi-pro baseball while a teenager. He ran away from home at 17, in 1902, and joined a touring stock company. He married Olive Ireland in 1914 and the pair became quite successful on the vaudeville circuit.
George Francis “Gabby” Hayes, the most famous Western sidekick, was born May 7, 1885, in the Hayes Hotel, owned by his father, in the tiny hamlet of Stannards, NY, on the outskirts of Wellsville, NY. As a young man he played semi-pro baseball while a teenager.
May 7 is the birthday of George “Gabby” Hayes (1885-1969). Hayes was a favorite performer of my father. He’s always been interesting to me as well as a little elusive. There were probably a good two to three dozen famous western sidekicks on movie screens back in the classic studio era.