George '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.
Pride of the West
(1938)
Caldwell and Nixon have their men rob the stage and then critcize the Sheriff for not catching the robbers. With her father the Sheriff under pressure, Mary sends for Hoppy who finds the stolen money and sets a trap to bring in the entire gang. (more)
Caldwell and Nixon have their men rob the stage and then critcize the Sheriff for not catching the robbers. With her father the Sheriff under pressure, Mary sends for Hoppy who finds the stolen money and sets a trap to bring in the entire gang. (more)
Texas Trail
(1937)
The U.S. Army needs more horses for the Spanish-American War. Hoppy must turn his Bar 20 cowhands into Rough Riders to gather up the horses, and of course bad guys try to sabotage the operation. (more)
The U.S. Army needs more horses for the Spanish-American War. Hoppy must turn his Bar 20 cowhands into Rough Riders to gather up the horses, and of course bad guys try to sabotage the operation. (more)
Borderland
(1937)
Rustlers' Valley (1937)
Bordertown Gun Fighters (1943)
Cameo Shelby is running a crooked lottery out of El Paso and treasury agent Bill Elliott has been sent to break it up. When Bill intercepts a shipment of tickets to New Mexico he forces Shelby to send incriminating papers in the next shipment. Bill captures these ... (more)
Cameo Shelby is running a crooked lottery out of El Paso and treasury agent Bill Elliott has been sent to break it up. When Bill intercepts a shipment of tickets to New Mexico he forces Shelby to send incriminating papers in the next shipment. Bill captures these ... (more)
The Texas Rangers
(1936)
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw. (more)
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw. (more)
The Night Rider (1932)
Officer John Brown is after the outlaw known as the Night Rider. Posing as Jim Blake he takes a job on the Rogers ranch. He finds the secret passage from the Rogers mine to the Rogers house used by the Night Rider and also a note written by the Night Rider to his ... (more)
Officer John Brown is after the outlaw known as the Night Rider. Posing as Jim Blake he takes a job on the Rogers ranch. He finds the secret passage from the Rogers mine to the Rogers house used by the Night Rider and also a note written by the Night Rider to his ... (more)
The Cariboo Trail (1950)
A cattleman fights to establish a ranch in the middle of gold country. (more)
A cattleman fights to establish a ranch in the middle of gold country. (more)
Monte Carlo Nights
(1934)
A man wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of the real killer. The problem is that he only has one clue to go on. (more)
A man wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of the real killer. The problem is that he only has one clue to go on. (more)
Tall in the Saddle (1944)
When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been murdered. He is out to solve the murder and thwart the scheming to take the ranch from its rightful owner. (more)
When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been murdered. He is out to solve the murder and thwart the scheming to take the ranch from its rightful owner. (more)
Mountain Music (1937)
Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her enthusiasm offsets that small deficit. (more)
Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her enthusiasm offsets that small deficit. (more)
Ladies Crave Excitement (1935)
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures. (more)
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures. (more)
Sally of the Subway (1932)
Con artists use a member of a European royal family to swindle a major jewelry company. (more)
Con artists use a member of a European royal family to swindle a major jewelry company. (more)
El Paso (1949)
Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas to get the signature of Susan's father, Judge Jeffers, on a legal document. Once ... (more)
Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas to get the signature of Susan's father, Judge Jeffers, on a legal document. Once ... (more)
Galloping Romeo
(1933)
Money is mysteriously disappearing from a locked trunk atop the stage even though the trunk arrives still locked. When pals Bob Rivers and Grizzly get the jop driving the stage, the same thing happens. (more)
Money is mysteriously disappearing from a locked trunk atop the stage even though the trunk arrives still locked. When pals Bob Rivers and Grizzly get the jop driving the stage, the same thing happens. (more)
Big Business Girl (1931)
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band. (more)
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band. (more)
Big News
(1929)
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit. (more)
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit. (more)
Dragnet Patrol (1931)
A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime. (more)
A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime. (more)
In Old Monterey
(1939)
The U.S. Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who live and work there. (more)
The U.S. Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who live and work there. (more)
The Man from Hell (1934)
A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough western town where he finds trouble everywhere. (more)
A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough western town where he finds trouble everywhere. (more)