George Francis Hayes (Gabby Hayes) was an American actor. He was born in 1885 at Wellsville, New York, and died in 1969 of heart failure. As a young man, he worked in a circus and played semi- pro baseball before appearing in vaudeville and on the legitimate stage, primarily in stock companies. He gained fame as Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick Windy Halliday in many films between 1936 and 1939. Leaving the Cassidy films, he was legally precluded from using the 'Windy' nickname, and so took on the name 'Gabby', and was so billed from about 1940. One of the few sidekicks to land on the annual list of Top Ten Western Box-office Stars, he did so repeatedly. In his early films he alternated between whiskered comic relief sidekicks and clean-shaven bad guys, but by the later thirties played 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 a network television show devoted to stories of the old West for children, 'The Gabby Hayes Show'.
Offstage he was an elegant and well-appointed connoisseur and man-about-town devoting his time to financial investments. Research Gabby Hayes
Randolph Scott (real name George Randolph Scott) was an American actor and film producer. He was born in 1898 at Orange County, Virginia and died in 1987. After working in theatre he became best known as a leading man of many American Westerns such as 'Buchanan Rides Alone'. He retired from films in 1962. Research Randolph Scott
Comanche Station is a western starring Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Atkins, Skip Homeier and Richard Rust in a story about a man who, after rescuing a settler's wife from Comanche Indians, encounters outlaws who plan to kill him and collect the reward for the woman's return. Comanche Station was directed by Budd Boetticher in 1960. Research Comanche Station
Rage At Dawn is a western starring Randolph Scott, Forrest Tucker, Mala Powers and J. Carrol Naish in a story about an undercover agent sent to infiltrate a family criminal gang, only to fall for the sister. Rage At Dawn was directed by Tim Whelan in 1955. Research Rage At Dawn
Seventh Cavalry is a western starring Randolph Scott, Barbara Hale, Jay C Flippen and Frank Faylen in a story about an American cavalry captain finding himself branded a coward after he is assigned to escort duties resulting in him missing the Battle of Little Bighorn. Seventh Cavalry was directed by Joseph H Lewis in 1956. Research Seventh Cavalry
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