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George 'Gabby' Hayes

Publicity photo of Gabby Hayes (left) and Roy Rogers from the early 1940's. Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye) (November 5 1911 &ndash July 6 1998 was a singer and Cowboy Actor.
Born George Francis Hayes
May 7, 1885(1885-05-07)
Flag of the United States Wellsville, New York
Died February 9, 1969, age 83
Burbank, California

George Francis 'Gabby' Hayes (May 7, 1885 – February 9, 1969) was an American actor. Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses Year 1885 ( MDCCCLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Wellsville New York is a village and a town in Allegany County New York, USA. Events 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County California, United States. Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses Year 1885 ( MDCCCLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the He was best known for his numerous appearances in western movies as the colorful sidekick to the leading man. (Not to be confused with British character actor George Hayes [1888-1967], who made a few movies in the U. S. )

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Early years

Hayes was born the third of seven children in Wellsville, New York, and did not come from a cowboy background. Wellsville New York is a village and a town in Allegany County New York, USA. In fact, he did not know how to ride a horse until he was in his forties and had to learn for movie roles. His father, Clark Hayes, operated a hotel and was also involved in oil production. George Hayes played semi-professional baseball while in high school, then ran away from home in 1902, at 17. Baseball is a Bat-and-ball Sport played between two teams of nine players each He joined a stock company, apparently traveled for a time with a circus, and became a successful vaudevillian. He had become so successful that by 1928 he was able, at 43, to retire to a home on Long Island in Baldwin, New York. Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, USA, its western shores directly across from Manhattan, from which the island stretches Baldwin is the name of some places in the US state of New York Baldwin Chemung County New York (town Baldwin Nassau County New York He lost all his savings the next year in the 1929 stock-market crash and returned to acting.

Hayes married Olive E. Ireland, daughter of a New Jersey glass finisher, on March 4, 1914. Events 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title Princeps iuventutis (head of the youth Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year She joined him in vaudeville, performing under the name Dorothy Earle (not to be confused with film actress/writer Dorothy Earle). She convinced him in 1929 to try his luck in motion pictures, and the couple moved to Los Angeles. They remained together until her death July 5, 1957. Events 1295 - Scotland and France form an alliance the beginnings of the Auld Alliance, against England. Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) The couple had no children.

Film career

On his move to Los Angeles, according to later interviews, Hayes had a chance meeting with producer Trem Carr, who liked his look and gave him thirty 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.

Hayes, in real life an intelligent, well groomed, and articulate man, was cast as a grizzled codger who uttered phrases like "consarn it", "yer durn tootin", "durn persnickety female", and "young whippersnapper".

Hayes played the part of Windy Halliday, the sidekick to Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd), from 1935 to 1939. Hopalong Cassidy is a Cowboy -hero created in 1904 by Clarence E William Boyd ( June 5, 1895 - September 12, 1972) was an American Actor. In 1939, Hayes left Paramount Pictures in a dispute over his salary and moved to Republic Pictures. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. Republic Pictures (also known as Republic Entertainment Inc) is an independent film television and video distribution company that was originally a movie production-distribution Paramount held the rights to the name Windy Halliday, so a new nickname was created for Hayes' character; Gabby. As Gabby Whitaker, Hayes appeared in more than 40 pictures between 1939 and 1946, usually with Roy Rogers but also with Gene Autry or Bill Elliot, often working under the directorship of Joseph Kane. Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye) (November 5 1911 &ndash July 6 1998 was a singer and Cowboy Actor. Orvon Gene Autry ( September 29 1907 &ndash October 2 1998) was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy Jasper Joseph Inman Kane ( 19 March 1894, San Diego &ndash 25 August 1975, Santa Monica California) was a prolific

Hayes was also repeatedly cast as a sidekick to western icons Randolph Scott (6 times) and John Wayne (approx. Randolph Scott ( January 23, 1898 – March 2, 1987) was an American motion picture actor whose career spanned from 1928 John Wayne ( May 26, 1907 &ndash June 11, 1979) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award -winning American 20 times). In fact, Wayne and Hayes made numerous films together in the very early 1930s with Hayes playing "straight" pre-sidekick roles, and sometimes even the villain. Hayes became a popular performer and consistently appeared among the ten favorite actors in polls taken of movie-goers of the period. He appeared in either or both the Motion Picture Herald and Boxoffice Magazine lists of Top Ten Money-Making Western Stars for twelve straight years and a thirteenth time in 1954, four years after his last movie.

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, and a new version in 1956. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic He introduced the show, often while whittling on a piece of wood and would sometimes throw in some tall stories. Half way through the show he would say something else and at the end too but he did not appear as an active character in the stories themselves. When the series ended he retired from show business. He lent his name to a comic book series and to a children's summer camp in New York. Following his wife's death in 1957, he lived in and managed a ten-unit apartment building he owned in North Hollywood, California. North Hollywood is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles California. In early 1969, he entered St. John Hospital in Burbank, California for treatment of cardiovascular disease. Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County California, United States. Cardiovascular disease or cardiovascular diseases refers to the class of diseases that involve the Heart or Blood vessels ( arteries and He died there on February 9, 1969, at the age of 83. Events 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. George 'Gabby' Hayes was interred in the Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery is part of the Forest Lawn chain of Southern California cemeteries Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West

Honors

For his contribution to radio, Gabby Hayes has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6427 Hollywood Blvd. The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a Sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood Los Angeles California, USA, that and a second star at 1724 Vine Street for his contribution to the television industry. In 2000, he was posthumously inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Hall of Great Western Performers is a Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City Oklahoma, U The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is a Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the US state of Oklahoma.

Homages

Homage was paid to Hayes in a different way in the 1974 satirical western Blazing Saddles. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Blazing Saddles ( 1974) is a satiric Western Comedy film directed by Mel Brooks. A look-a-like actor named Claude Ennis Starrett, Jr. played a Gabby Hayes-like character. Jack Starrett ( November 2, 1936 &ndash March 27, 1989) was an American Actor and Film director. In keeping with one running joke in the movie, the character was called Gabby Johnson. After he delivered a rousing, though largely unintelligible speech to the townspeople ("You get back here you pious candy-ass sidewinder. Ain't no way that nobody is gonna' to leave this town. Hell, I was born here, an' I was raished here, an' dad gum it, I am gonna die here an' no sidewindin bushwackin, hornswaglin, cracker croaker is gonna rouin me biscuit cutter. "), David Huddleston's character proclaimed, "Now, who can argue with that?!" and described it as "authentic frontier gibberish. David William Huddleston (born September 17, 1930) is an American actor Gibberish is a generic term in English for talking that sounds like speech, but has no actual meaning " Gabby was also immortalized once again in the Simpsons episode where Milhouse become "Fallout boy". the producer of the film comments that Milhouse is ". . going to be big, Gabby Hayes big!"

Additionally, every year in April at the beginning of fishing season in Pennsylvania, the Gabby Hayes Memorial Fishing Tournament is held. The first tournament was held in 1969, the year of Hayes's death.

Comic appearances

External links

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