About

Known credits:
194
Birthday:
1885-05-06
Place of birth:
Wellsville, New York, USA
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George 'Gabby' Hayes

Overview

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.

Known for

Acting
1976 Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch Actor (archive footage) 58
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1975 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Actor Self (archive footage) 59
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1956 The Gabby Hayes Show Actor Narrator N/A
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1950 The Gabby Hayes Show Actor Himself 69
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1950 The Cariboo Trail Actor Grizzly 59
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1949 El Paso Actor Pesky Tees 58
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1948 The Untamed Breed Actor Windy Lucas 58
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1948 Return of the Bad Men Actor John Pettit 59
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1948 Albuquerque Actor Juke 59
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1947 Wyoming Actor Windy Gibson 59
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1947 Trail Street Actor Billy Jones 59
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1946 Heldorado Actor Gabby Whittaker 59
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1946 Home in Oklahoma Actor Gabby Whittaker 59
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1946 Roll on Texas Moon Actor Gabby Whittaker 59
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1946 Under Nevada Skies Actor Gabby Whittaker 59
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1946 My Pal Trigger Actor Gabby Kendrick 59
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1946 Rainbow Over Texas Actor Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker 59
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1946 Badman's Territory Actor Honest Jim Badger / The Coyote Kid 58
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1946 Song of Arizona Actor Gabby Whittaker 58
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1945 Don't Fence Me In Actor Gabby Whittaker 59
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1945 Sunset in El Dorado Actor Gabby 58
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1945 Along the Navajo Trail Actor Gabby Whittaker N/A
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1945 Man from Oklahoma Actor Gabby Whittaker 58
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1945 Bells of Rosarita Actor Gabby Whittake 59
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1945 Utah Actor Gabby Whittaker 59
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1944 The Big Bonanza Actor Hap Selby 59
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1944 Lights of Old Santa Fe Actor Gabby Whittaker 59
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1944 Tall in the Saddle Actor Dave 59
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1944 Marshal of Reno Actor Gabby 59
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1944 Tucson Raiders Actor 'Gabby' Hopkins N/A
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1944 Hidden Valley Outlaws Actor Gabby Hayes N/A
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1944 Mojave Firebrand Actor Gabby Hayes 58
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1943 In Old Oklahoma Actor Despirit Dean 59
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1943 Death Valley Manhunt Actor Gabby Hayes 59
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1943 Overland Mail Robbery Actor Gabby N/A
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1943 Wagon Tracks West Actor Gabby N/A
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1943 Bordertown Gun Fighters Actor Gabby Hayes N/A
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1943 The Man from Thunder River Actor Gabby Whittaker 58
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1943 Calling Wild Bill Elliott Actor Gabby Hayes 59
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1942 Ridin' Down the Canyon Actor Gabby 59
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1942 Heart of the Golden West Actor Gabby N/A
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1942 Sunset Serenade Actor Gabby 59
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1942 Sons of the Pioneers Actor Gabby Whittaker N/A
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1942 Romance on the Range Actor Gabby 59
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1942 Sunset on the Desert Actor Gabby Whittaker 59
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1942 South of Santa Fe Actor Gabby Whittaker 58
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1942 Man from Cheyenne Actor Gabby Whittaker 59
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1941 Red River Valley Actor Gabby Whittaker 59
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1941 Jesse James at Bay Actor Sheriff Gabby Whitaker 58
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1941 Bad Man of Deadwood Actor Prof. Mortimer 'Gabby' Blackstone 58
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1941 Nevada City Actor Gabby Chapman 59
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1941 Sheriff of Tombstone Actor Gabby 59
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1941 In Old Cheyenne Actor Arapaho Brown 58
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1941 Robin Hood of the Pecos Actor Gabriel Gabby Hornaday 59
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1940 The Border Legion Actor Honest John Whittaker 59
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1940 Young Bill Hickok Actor 'Gabby' Whitaker 58
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1940 Melody Ranch Actor Pop Laramie 59
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1940 Colorado Actor Gabby 59
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1940 The Ranger and the Lady Actor Gabby Whittaker 59
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1940 The Carson City Kid Actor Gabby Whittaker 59
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1940 Wagons Westward Actor Hardtack 59
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1940 Dark Command Actor Andrew 'Doc' Grunch 59
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1940 Young Buffalo Bill Actor Gabby Whittaker 58
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1939 Days of Jesse James Actor Gabby 58
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1939 Saga of Death Valley Actor Gabby 59
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1939 The Arizona Kid Actor Gabby Whittaker 59
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1939 In Old Monterey Actor Gabby Whittaker 59
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1939 Wall Street Cowboy Actor Gabby 59
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1939 Renegade Trail Actor Windy Halliday 59
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1939 In Old Caliente Actor Gabby 58
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1939 Man of Conquest Actor Lannie Upchurch 58
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1939 Silver on the Sage Actor Windy Halliday N/A
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1939 Southward Ho! Actor Gabby 59
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1939 Let Freedom Ring Actor Pop Wilkie 59
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1939 Sunset Trail Actor Windy Halliday N/A
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1939 Fighting Thoroughbreds Actor Gramps Montrose N/A
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1938 The Frontiersmen Actor Windy Halliday 59
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1938 In Old Mexico Actor Windy Halliday N/A
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1938 Pride of the West Actor Windy Halliday N/A
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1938 Bar 20 Justice Actor Windy Halliday 59
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1938 Heart of Arizona Actor Windy Halliday 59
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1938 Gold Is Where You Find It Actor Enoch 59
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1937 Texas Trail Actor Windy Halliday 59
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1937 Hopalong Rides Again Actor Windy Halliday 59
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1937 Rustlers' Valley Actor Windy Halliday 59
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1937 North of the Rio Grande Actor Windy Halliday 59
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1937 Mountain Music Actor Granpappy Burnside 59
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1937 Hills of Old Wyoming Actor Windy Halliday N/A
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1937 Borderland Actor Windy Halliday N/A
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1936 Trail Dust Actor Windy Halliday 59
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1936 The Plainsman Actor Breezy 59
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1936 Hopalong Cassidy Returns Actor Windy Halliday 59
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1936 Valiant Is the Word for Carrie Actor Bearded Man 59
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1936 The Texas Rangers Actor Judge Snow 59
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1936 I Married a Doctor Actor Train Station Agent 58
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1936 Three on the Trail Actor Windy Halliday 59
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1936 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Actor Farmer's Spokesman (uncredited) 65
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1936 Song of the Trail Actor Dan Hobson 58
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1936 Call of the Prairie Actor Shanghai McHenry 59
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1936 Heart of the West Actor Windy Jenkins 59
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1936 The Lawless Nineties Actor Major Carter 58
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1936 Silver Spurs Actor Drag Harlan N/A
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1936 Valley of the Lawless Actor Grandpaw Jenkins N/A
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1935 Hitch Hike Lady Actor Miner 59
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1935 Swifty Actor Sheriff Dan Hughes (as George F. Hayes) N/A
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1935 Bar 20 Rides Again Actor Windy Halliday 59
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1935 The Eagle's Brood Actor Spike 59
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1935 $1,000 a Minute Actor New Deal Watson 58
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1935 Texas Terror Actor Sheriff Ed Williams 58
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1935 The Throwback Actor Ford Cruze N/A
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1935 Thunder Mountain Actor Foley N/A
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1935 Tumbling Tumbleweeds Actor Dr. Parker 59
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1935 Hop-a-long Cassidy Actor Uncle Ben 59
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1935 The Farmer Takes a Wife Actor Lucas 58
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1935 Honeymoon Limited Actor Pinkham 59
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1935 Ladies Crave Excitement Actor McCloskey 58
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1935 Justice of the Range Actor John Coffin, known as Pegleg Sanderson N/A
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1935 The Hoosier Schoolmaster Actor Pearson (as George Hayes) 58
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1935 The Headline Woman Actor Duffy 58
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1935 Tombstone Terror Actor Soupy Baxter 58
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1935 Smokey Smith Actor Blaze Bart 59
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1935 The Outlaw Tamer Actor Cactus Barnes (as Geo. S. Hayes) N/A
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1935 Rainbow Valley Actor George Hale 58
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1935 The Lost City Actor Butterfield 58
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1935 Death Flies East Actor Wotkyns 59
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1934 'Neath the Arizona Skies Actor Matt Downing 58
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1934 The Lawless Frontier Actor Dusty 58
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1934 In Old Santa Fe Actor Cactus 58
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1934 The Brand of Hate Actor Bill Larkins 58
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1934 The Man from Hell Actor Banker Colonel Campbell 58
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1934 The Star Packer Actor Matt Matlock 57
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1934 Randy Rides Alone Actor - Marvin Black aka Mat Mathews/Matt the Mute 58
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1934 Next Of Kin Actor 'Dusty' N/A
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1934 Bandits of the Badlands Actor Sheriff Jake Withers N/A
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1934 The Shadow Gang Actor Matt Matlock N/A
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1934 Monte Carlo Nights Actor Inspector Nick Gunby 59
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1934 The Man from Utah Actor Marshal George Higgins 58
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1934 Blue Steel Actor Sheriff Jake Withers 58
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1934 City Limits Actor Charlie Carter 59
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1934 Bedlam of Beards Actor N/A
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1934 House of Mystery Actor David Fells 58
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1934 Mystery Liner Actor Joe, the Watchman 58
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1934 Beggars in Ermine Actor Joe Wilson 59
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1934 West of the Divide Actor 'Dusty' 58
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1934 Claim Jumpers Actor Jake Benson N/A
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1934 The Lucky Texan Actor Jake 'Grandy' Benson 58
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1933 Riders of Destiny Actor Charlie Denton 58
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1933 Ship of Wanted Men Actor Crewman 58
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1933 Skyway Actor George Taylor 58
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1933 The Devil's Mate Actor Collins N/A
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1933 Ranger's Code Actor Baxter (as George Hayes) N/A
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1933 Galloping Romeo Actor Grizzly N/A
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1933 The Fugitive Actor Judge Tyler N/A
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1933 Fighting Texans Actor Pop Martin N/A
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1933 Crashing Broadway Actor J. Talbot Thorndyke N/A
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1933 The Sphinx Actor Detective Casey 58
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1933 The Gallant Fool Actor Dad Denton N/A
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1933 The Return of Casey Jones Actor Timothy Shine N/A
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1933 Trailing North Actor Flash Ryan 59
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1933 The Phantom Broadcast Actor Police Lieutenant 58
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1933 Breed of the Border Actor Chuck Wiggins N/A
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1932 Self Defense Actor Jury Foreman N/A
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1932 The Fighting Champ Actor Pete 59
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1932 Wild Horse Mesa Actor Slack N/A
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1932 Texas Buddies Actor Si Haller 59
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1932 Hidden Valley Actor Gavin Henchman - Dark Hat 58
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1932 Broadway to Cheyenne Actor Walrus 58
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1932 Klondike Actor Tom Ross 58
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1932 The Night Rider Actor Altoonie N/A
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1932 Love Me Tonight Actor Grocer (uncredited) 59
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1932 A Slip at the Switch Actor Deputy Smoot N/A
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1932 Winner Take All Actor Interne at Rosario Ranch (uncredited) 58
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1932 The Boiling Point Actor George Duncan 59
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1932 The Man from Hell's Edges Actor Shamrock Cassidy 58
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1932 Riders of the Desert Actor Hashknife Brooks 58
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1932 Border Devils Actor Squint Sanders 59
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1932 Play Girl Actor Dance Hall Tobacconist (uncredited) 58
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1932 Sally of the Subway Actor Police Lieutenant Paxton 59
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1931 Dragnet Patrol Actor Private Detective 58
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1931 Cavalier of the West Actor Sheriff Bill Ryan 58
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1931 Oklahoma Jim Actor Crooked Gambler N/A
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1931 The Nevada Buckaroo Actor Cherokee Williams N/A
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1931 Big Business Girl Actor Hotel Clerk (uncredited) 59
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1931 God's Country and the Man Actor Stingaree Kelly N/A
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1931 The Stolen Jools Actor Projectionist 58
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1931 Dirigible Actor Parade Official (uncredited) 58
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1930 Top Speed Actor Western Union Clerk 59
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1930 For the Defense Actor Ben (the waiter) 58
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1930 She Who Gets Slapped Actor Poker Player 59
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1930 Playing Around Actor Railroad Ticket-Seller (uncredited) 58
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1929 Big News Actor Hoffman 58
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1929 Smiling Irish Eyes Actor Taxi Driver N/A
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1929 Rainbow Man Actor Bill N/A
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1919 The House Without Children Actor Archibald Ponsonby N/A
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