George 'Gabby' Hayes

George 'Gabby' Hayes

Actor

Biography

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 … Read more

Date of birth 1885-05-06
Place of birth Wellsville, New York, USA