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George "Gabby" Hayes
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George "Gabby" Hayes
Hayes in 1953
Born George Francis Hayes
May 7, 1885
Stannards, New York, U.S.
Died February 9, 1969 (aged 83)
Burbank, California, U.S.
Occupation Actor
Years active 1902-1956
Spouse(s) Olive E. Ireland (m. 1914-1957)
George Francis "Gabby" Hayes (May 7, 1885 - February 9, 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, woman-hating, but ever-loyal and brave comic sidekick of the cowboy star.
Contents
1 Early years
2 Film career
3 Death
4 Honors
5 Popular culture
6 Partial filmography
7 Comic book appearances
8 References
9 External links
Early years[edit]
Hayes was born the third of seven children in his father's hotel, the Hayes Hotel, in Stannards, New York, a hamlet just outside Wellsville, New York. (Hayes always gave Wellsville as his birthplace, but legally he was born in Stannards).[1][2] He was the son of Elizabeth Morrison and Clark Hayes. His uncle, on his mother's side of the family, was George F. Morrison, vice president of General Electric.[citation needed] Despite his later association with westerns, Hayes did not come from a cowboy background; he did not know how to ride a horse until he was in his forties and had to learn for film roles.
His father, Clark Hayes, operated the Hayes Hotel in Stannards and was also involved in oil production. George Hayes grew up in Stannards and attended Stannards School.[2] He played semiprofessional baseball while in high school. He ran away from home in 1902, at 17, joined a stock company, apparently traveled for a time with a circus, and became a successful vaudevillian.
Hayes married Olive E. Ireland, the daughter of a New Jersey glass finisher, on March 4, 1914. She joined him in vaudeville, performing under the name Dorothy Earle (not to be confused with film actress and writer Dorothy Earle). Hayes had become so successful that by 1928, at age 43, he was able to retire to a home on Long Island in Baldwin, New York. He lost all his savings the next year in the 1929 stock-market crash. Olive persuaded her husband to try his luck in films, and the couple moved to Los Angeles. They remained together until her death on July 5, 1957. The couple had no children.
His siblings included his brothers, William W. Hayes, Morrison Hayes, Clark B. Hayes, and his sisters, Nellie Elizabeth Hayes Ebeling and Harriet "Hattie" Elizabeth Hayes Allen.[3] His brother, Morrison Hayes, a Corporal in the United States Army, was killed in action on July 19, 1918, during World War I in France and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions during the war. [4]
Film career[edit]
Hayes in The Carson City Kid, 1940
After his move to Los Angeles, according to later interviews, Hayes had a chance meeting with the producer Trem Carr (originally Tremlet C. Carr), who liked his look and gave him 30 roles over the next six years. In his early career, Hayes was cast in a variety of roles, including villains, and occasionally played two roles in a single film. He found a niche in the growing genre of Western films, many of which were series with recurring characters. Ironically, Hayes would admit he had never been a big fan of Westerns.[citation needed]
Hayes, in real life an intelligent, well-groomed and articulate man, was often cast as a grizzled codger who uttered phrases such as "consarn it", "yer durn tootin'", "dadgummit", "durn persnickety female", and "young whippersnapper."
From 1935 to 1939, Hayes played the part of Windy Halliday, the sidekick to Hopalong Cassidy (played by William Boyd). In 1939, Hayes left Paramount Pictures in a dispute over his salary and moved to Republic Pictures. Paramount held the rights to the name Windy Halliday, so the nickname Gabby was created for Hayes's character. As Gabby Whitaker, he appeared in more than 40 films between 1939 and 1946, usually with Roy Rogers (44 times), but also with Gene Autry (7) and Wild Bill Elliott (14), often working under the directorship of Joseph Kane (34).
Hayes was also repeatedly cast as a sidekick of the Western stars Randolph Scott (six times) and John Wayne (15 times, some as straight or villainous characters). Hayes played Wayne's sidekick in Raoul Walsh's Dark Command (1940), which featured Roy Rogers in a supporting role. Hayes became a popular performer and consistently appeared among the 10 favorite actors in polls taken of moviegoers of the period. He appeared in either one or both the Motion Picture Herald and Boxoffice Magazine lists of Top Ten Money-Making Western Stars for 12 straight years and a 13th time in 1954, four years after his last film.
The Western film genre declined in the late 1940s, and Hayes made his last film appearance in The Cariboo Trail (1950). He moved to television and hosted The Gabby Hayes Show, a Western series, from 1950 to 1954 on NBC and, in a new version in 1956, on ABC. He introduced the show, often while whittling on a piece of wood, and would sometimes throw in a tall tale. Halfway through the show, he would say something else, and at the end of the show, also, but he did not appear as an active character in the stories. When the series ended, Hayes retired from show business. He lent his name to a comic book series, "Gabby Hayes Western" comics, published by Fawcett Publications from November 1948 until January 1957, and to a children's summer camp in New York.
Death[edit]
Hayes's grave of at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills
Following his wife's death on July 5, 1957, Hayes lived in and managed a 10-unit apartment building he owned in North Hollywood, California. At the beginning of 1969, he entered Saint Joseph Hospital in Burbank, California, for treatment of cardiovascular disease. He died there on February 9, 1969, at the age of 83. He was interred in the Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Honors[edit]
Two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame commemorate Hayes's work in the entertainment industry: one for his contribution to radio, at 6427 Hollywood Boulevard, and one for his contribution to television, at 1724 Vine Street. In 2000, he was posthumously inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Popular culture[edit]
Homage was paid to Hayes in a different way in the 1974 satirical Western Blazing Saddles. The actor and director Jack Starrett, credited as Claude Ennis Starrett, Jr., played a Hayes-like character. In keeping with a running joke in the movie, the character is called Gabby Johnson. After Johnson delivers a rousing, though partially unintelligible speech to the townspeople, David Huddleston's character stands up to say, "Now, who can argue with that?!", and proclaims it "authentic frontier gibberish."[5]
In the animated film Toy Story 2, the character Stinky Pete the Prospector, voiced by Kelsey Grammer, is modeled after Hayes.[6] In the film's fictional universe, he is a toy version of a character on the marionette television western Woody's Roundup, where he is a colorful comic relief character. In contrast, the toy is intelligent and well spoken, a reference to Hayes's contrasting real-life and film personas.
Hayes inspired the Doppio Rhum character in Captain Miki, an Italian comic series.[citation needed] Hayes has also been portrayed in impressions by Fred LaBour (Too Slim), during Riders in the Sky performances.[citation needed] In a Mighty Carson Art Players sketch on The Tonight Show, Johnny Carson impersonated Gabby Hayes in a sketch with Roy Rogers. This sketch has appeared on Carson's syndicated series Carson's Comedy Classics, which features highlights from his years as The Tonight Show host.
Hayes was mentioned in The Simpsons episode "Radioactive Man", in which Milhouse becomes Radioactive Man's sidekick, Fallout Boy; the director of the film comments that Milhouse is "going to be big, Gabby Hayes big!"[7]
Every year in early July, from 1983 through 1989, "Gabby Hayes Days" were celebrated in Wellsville, New York. The event featured a street sale, square dancing, and Hayes look-alike contests for adults and children. This celebration was eventually merged into the mid-July Wellsville Balloon Rally and gradually disappeared. A street is also named after him in Wellsville, Gabby Hayes Lane.[2][8][9]
Since April, 1969, every year a band of fishermen has traveled to Kettle Creek, Potter County, Pennsylvania on opening day of trout season for the "Gabby Hayes Memorial Trout Fishing Tournament". These men, known as Gabby Guys, have gathered annually to celebrate the opening day of trout fishing and the memory of Hayes. In April 2019, they will celebrate their fifty year anniversary, which will also mark 50 years since Hayes' passing.[10]
The famous Manhattan restaurant Danny's Hideaway, at 151 East 45th Street, called one of its main dining areas the Gabby Hayes Room in honor of the friendship between the owner, Dante "Danny" Stradella, and Hayes.[11]
Gabby Hayes: King of the Cowboy Comics is a biographical book by Bobby J. Copeland and Richard B. Smith III, published by Empire Publishing, Inc.in 2008. [12][13]
Partial filmography[edit]
Big News (1929) as Hoffman - Reporter
Rainbow Man (1929) as Bill
Smiling Irish Eyes (1929) as Taxi Driver
Top Speed (1930) as Western Union Clerk (uncredited)
For the Defense (1930) as Ben - Waiter (uncredited)
Playing Around (1930) as Railroad Ticket Seller (uncredited)
She Who Gets Slapped (1930) as Poker Player (uncredited), short film
Cavalier of the West (1931) as Sheriff Bill Ryan
Freighters of Destiny (1931) as Jim
Oklahoma Jim (1931) as Crooked Gambler (uncredited)
The Nevada Buckaroo (1931) as Cherokee Williams
Pleasure (1931) as Motorcycle Cop
Big Business Girl (1931) as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
God's Country and the Man (1931) as Stingaree Kelly
Dirigible (1931) as Parade Official (uncredited)
The Stolen Jools (1931) as Projectionist (as George Hayes)
Dragnet Patrol (1931) as Private Detective
Play Girl (1932) as Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited)
Love Me Tonight (1932) as Grocer (uncredited)
Winner Take All (1932) as Intern at Rosario Ranch
Ghost Valley (1932) as Dave (uncredited)
The Man from Hell's Edges (1932) as Shamrock Cassidy
The Boiling Point (1932) as George Duncan
Riders of the Desert (1932) as Hashknife Brooks
Border Devils (1932) as Dude Sanders
Wild Horse Mesa (1932) as Slack
Sally of the Subway (1932) as Police Lieutenant Paxton (uncredited)
Texas Buddies (1932) as Si Haller
Hidden Valley (1932) as Henchman Gavin - Black Hat
Broadway to Cheyenne (1932) as Walrus
Klondike (1932) as Tom Ross
The Night Rider (1932) as Altoonie
The Fighting Champ (1932) as Pete
Crashin' Broadway (1932) as J. Talbot Thorndyke
Self Defense (1932) as Jury Foreman
Ship of Wanted Men (1933) as Crewman
Ranger's Code (1933) as Baxter
Skyway (1933) as George Taylor
Galloping Romeo (1933) as Grizzly
The Fugitive (1933) as Judge Taylor
Fighting Texans (1933) as Pop Martin
The Sphinx (1933) as Det. Casey
Breed of the Border (1933) as Chuck Wiggins
Devil's Mate (1933) as Collins
Riders of Destiny (1933) as Charlie Denton (The first of a series of John Wayne Lone Star Westerns)
The Gallant Fool (1933) as Dad Denton
The Return of Casey Jones (1933) as Timothy Shine
Trailing North (1933) as Flash Ryan
The Phantom Broadcast (1933) as Police Lieutenant
The Brand of Hate (1934) as Bill Larkins
Monte Carlo Nights (1934) as Inspector Nick Gunby
The Lucky Texan (1934) as Jake Benson
West of the Divide (1934) as Dusty
Blue Steel (1934) as Sheriff Jake Withers
Randy Rides Alone (1934) as Marvin Black aka Matt the Mute
The Star Packer (1934) as Matt Matlock
The Lawless Frontier (1934) as Dusty
The Man from Utah (1934) as Marshal George Higgins
'Neath the Arizona Skies (1934) as Matt Downing (uncredited)
In Old Santa Fe (1934) as Cactus (Gene Autry's screen debut)
The Man from Hell (1934) as Col. Campbell - Banker
City Limits (1934) as Charlie Carter
House of Mystery (1934) as David Fells
The Lost Jungle (1934) as Doctor - Dirigible Passenger
Mystery Liner (1934) as Joe, the Watchman
Beggars in Ermine (1934) as Joe Wilson
The Lost City (1935) as Butterfield
Texas Terror (1935) as Sheriff Ed Williams
Rainbow Valley (1935) as George Hole
Smokey Smith (1935) as Blaze Bart
Tombstone Terror (1935) as Soupy Baxter
The Headline Woman (1935) as Police Desk Sgt. Duffy
Hitch Hike Lady (1935) as Miner
Swifty (1935) as Sheriff Dan Hughes
Bar 20 Rides Again (1935) as Windy
The Eagle's Brood (1935) as Bartender Spike
1000 Dollars a Minute (1935) as "New Deal" Watson
The Throwback (1935) as Ford Cruze
Thunder Mountain (1935) as Foley
Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935) as Dr. Parker
Welcome Home (1935) as Charles Rogers (uncredited)
The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935) as Lucas (uncredited)
Hop-a-Long Cassidy (1935) as Uncle Ben
Honeymoon Limited (1935) as Jasper Pinkham
Ladies Crave Excitement (1935) as Dan McCloskey
Justice of the Range (1935) as John Coffin known as Pegleg Sanderson
The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1935) as Pearson
The Outlaw Tamer (1935) as Cactus Barnes
Death Flies East (1935) as Wotkyns
The Lawless Nineties (1936) as Major Carter
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) as Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited)
The Texas Rangers (1936) as Judge Snow
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936) as Bearded Man
Hopalong Cassidy Returns (1936) as Windy Halliday
The Plainsman (1936) as Breezy
Trail Dust (1936) as Windy
Hearts in Bondage (1936) as Ezra
I Married a Doctor (1936) as Train Station Agent
Three on the Trail (1936) as Windy Halliday
Song of the Trail (1936) as Dan Hobson
Call of the Prairie (1936) as Shanghai
Heart of the West (1936) as Windy
Silver Spurs (1936) as Drag Harlan
Valley of the Lawless (1936) as Grandpaw Jenkins
Borderland (1937) as Windy Halliday
Rustlers' Valley (1937) as Windy Halliday
Texas Trail (1937) as Windy Halliday
North of the Rio Grande (1937) as Windy Halliday
Mountain Music (1937) as Grandpappy Burnside
Hills of Old Wyoming (1937) as Windy Halliday
Hopalong Rides Again (1937) as Windy Halliday
Heart of Arizona (1938) as Windy Halliday
Bar 20 Justice (1938) as Windy Halliday
In Old Mexico (1938) as Windy Halliday
Pride of the West (1938) as Windy Halliday
The Frontiersmen (1938) as Windy Halliday
Sunset Trail (1938) as Windy Halliday
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938) as Enoch
Silver on the Sage (1939) as Windy Halliday
Renegade Trail (1939) as Windy Halliday
Days of Jesse James (1939) as Gabby Whittaker
Let Freedom Ring (1939) as 'Pop" Wilkie
Saga of Death Valley (1939) as Gabby Whittaker
The Arizona Kid (1939) as Gabby Whittaker
In Old Monterey (1939) as Gabby Whittaker
Wall Street Cowboy (1939) as Gabby Whittaker
In Old Caliente (1939) as Gabby Whittaker
Man of Conquest (1939) as Lannie Upchurch
Southward Ho (1939) as Gabby Whittaker
Fighting Thoroughbreds (1939) as 'Gramps' Montrose
Dark Command (1940) as Doc Grunch
Wagons Westward (1940) as Hardtack
The Carson City Kid (1940) as Marshal Gabby Whittaker
The Border Legion (1940) as Honest John Whittaker
Melody Ranch (1940) as Pop Laramie
Young Bill Hickok (1940) as Gabby Whittaker
Colorado (1940) as Gabby
The Ranger and the Lady (1940) as Texas Ranger Sergeant Gabby Whittaker
Young Buffalo Bill (1940) as Gabby Whittaker
Robin Hood of the Pecos (1941) as Gabriel "Gabby" Hornaday
Sheriff of Tombstone (1941) as Judge Gabby Whittaker
Red River Valley (1941) as Gabby Whittaker
Jesse James at Bay (1941) as Sheriff Gabby Whittaker
Bad Man of Deadwood (1941) as Professor Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone
Nevada City (1941) as Gabby Chapman
In Old Cheyenne (1941) as Arapahoe Brown
Man from Cheyenne (1942) as Gabby Whittaker
Romance on the Range (1942) as Gabby
Sons of the Pioneers (1942) as Gabby Whittaker
Ridin' Down the Canyon (1942) as Gabby
Heart of the Golden West (1942) as Gabby
Sunset Serenade (1942) as Gabby
Sunset on the Desert (1942) as Gabby Whittaker
South of Santa Fe (1942) as Gabby Whittaker
Calling Wild Bill Elliott (1943) as Gabby Whittaker
In Old Oklahoma (1943) as Despirit Dean
Death Valley Manhunt (1943) as Gabby Hayes
Overland Mail Robbery (1943) as Gabby
Wagon Tracks West (1943) as Gabby
Bordertown Gun Fighters (1943) as Gabby Hayes
The Man from Thunder River (1943) as Gabby Whittaker
Mojave Firebrand (1944) as Gabby Hayes
Hidden Valley Outlaws (1944) as Gabby Hayes
Tall in the Saddle (1944) as Dave
The Big Bonanza (1944) as Hap Selby
Tucson Raiders (1944) as Gabby Hopkins
Lights of Old Santa Fe as Gabby Whittaker
Marshal of Reno (1944) as Gabby
Sunset in El Dorado (1945) as Gabby
The Man from Oklahoma (1945) as Gabby Whittaker
Bells of Rosarita (1945) as Gabby Whittaker
Utah (1945) as Gabby Whittaker
Don't Fence Me In (1945) as Gabby Whittaker aka Wildcat Kelly
Along the Navajo Trail (1945) as Gabby Whittaker
My Pal Trigger (1946) as Gabby Kendrick
Heldorado (1946) as Gabby
Home in Oklahoma (1946) as Gabby Whittaker
Roll on Texas Moon (1946) as Gabby Whittaker
Under Nevada Skies (1946) as Gabby Whittaker
Rainbow Over Texas (1946) as Sheriff Gabby Whittaker
Badman's Territory (1946) as Coyote
Song of Arizona (1946) as Coyote
Wyoming (1947) as Windy Gibson
Trail Street (1947) as Billy
Albuquerque (1948) as Juke
Return of the Bad Men (1948) as John Petit
The Untamed Breed (1948) as Windy Lucas
El Paso (1949) as Pasky (Pescaloosa) Tees
The Cariboo Trail (1950) as Oscar aka Grizzly
Comic book appearances[edit]
Gabby Hayes Adventure Comics 1 (1953, Toby Press)
Gabby Hayes Western 1-59 (1948-1957, Fawcett Publications)
Gabby Hayes Western 50-111 (1951-1955, L. Miller black-and-white reprints of Fawcett Comics)
Gabby Hayes Mini Comics, 5 issues (1951, Quaker Oats giveaway)
References[edit]
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^ Wellsville Daily Reporter, 17 September 1966
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a b c "Photo Gallery: Town of Willing, NY". p. 1. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
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^ "Gabby Hayes (7 May 1885-9 Feb 1969)". Find a Grave. Find a Grave. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
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^ "Morrison Hayes (1895-1918)". Allegany County Historical Society. Allegany County Historical Society. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
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^ "Authentic Frontier Gibberish". YouTube.
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^ "The Toys Are Back in Town". SFgate. 24 November 1999. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
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^ "07x02 - Radioactive Man - The Simpsons Transcripts - Forever Dreaming". Retrieved 2017-06-06.
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^ Wellsvilleballoonrally.com
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^ Ancestry.com
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^ www.GabbyHayes.net
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^ Purecowboy.us
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^ "Gabby Hayes: King of the Cowboy Comics". Amazon. Amazon. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
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^ Copeland, Bobby J.; Smith, III, Richard B. (October 10, 2008). Gabby Hayes: King of the Cowboy Comics. Empire Publishing, Inc. ISBN 978-0944019542.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to George 'Gabby' Hayes.
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"George "Gabby" Hayes". Find a Grave. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
George "Gabby" Hayes on IMDb
George "Gabby" Hayes at the TCM Movie Database
Amctv.com article on Hayes and other Western Sidekicks
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