George 'Gabby' Hayes: George 'Gabby' Hayes. Actor: Randy Rides Alone. American character actor, the most famous of Western-movie sidekicks of the 1930s and 1940s. He was born May 7, 1885, the third of seven children, in the Hayes Hotel (owned by his father) in the tiny hamlet of Stannards, New York, on the outskirts of Wellsville, New York. Hayes was the son of hotelier and oil-production manager Clark Hayes, and grew up in...
Known For: Randy Rides Alone (Marvin Black aka Matt the Mute(as George Hayes)), Call of the Prairie (Shanghai McHenry(as George Hayes)), Sons of the Pioneers (Gabby Whittaker), In Old Caliente (Gabby Whitaker)