George ‘Gabby’ Hayes Net Worth is
$250,000

Mini Biography

American character actor, the most well-known of Western-movie sidekicks from the 1930s and 1940s. He was created Might 7, 1885, the 3rd of seven kids, in the Hayes Resort (possessed by his dad) in the small hamlet of Stannards, NY, within the outskirts of Wellsville, NY. Hayes was the child of hotelier and oil-production supervisor Clark Hayes, and was raised in Stannards. As a guy, George Hayes worked well inside a circus and performed semi-pro football while an adolescent. He ran abroad at 17, in 1902, and became a member of a touring share company. He wedded Olive Ireland in 1914 as well as the set became quite effective in the vaudeville circuit. Retired in his 40s, he dropped a lot of his profit the 1929 currency markets crash and was compelled to come back to function. Although he previously produced his film debut within a appearance before the crash, it had been not really until his wife persuaded him to go to California and he fulfilled manufacturer Trem Carr that he started working progressively in the moderate. He performed scores of jobs in Westerns and non-Westerns as well, finally in the middle-1930s settling directly into an almost solely Western profession. He gained popularity as Hopalong Cassidy’s sidekick Windy Halliday in lots of movies between 1936-39. Departing the Cassidy movies in an income dispute, he was lawfully precluded from using the “Windy” nickname, therefore took within the sobriquet “Gabby”, and was therefore billed from about 1940. Mostly of the sidekicks to property within the annual set of Top Ten Traditional western Boxoffice Celebrities, he did therefore frequently. In his early movies, he alternated between whiskered comic-relief sidekicks and clean-shaven criminals, but from the later on 1930s, he worked well almost exclusively like a European sidekick to celebrities such as for example John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and Randolph Scott. After his last film, in 1950, he starred as the web host of the network tv program devoted to tales of the Aged West for kids, The Gabby Hayes Present (1950). Offstage a stylish and well-appointed connoisseur and man-about-town, Hayes committed the final many years of his lifestyle to his ventures. He passed away of coronary disease in Burbank, California, on Feb 9, 1969.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	George "Gabby" Hayes
Died	February 9, 1969, Burbank, California, United States
Profession	Actor
Nationality	American
Spouse	Olive E. Ireland