On of my favorite western character actors was George "Gabby" Hayes. He played a sidekick to Roy Rogers and Hopalong Cassidy. He played a cranky and crotchety oldtimer who had expressions such as "yer durn tootin'" "durn persnickity female", "young whipper snapper" and "Yessiree Bob"
Les Adams has identified that he was in about 190 sound era films, and that total includes 146 westerns and a couple of serials. His work at Republic Pictures, which amounted to 68 films, occurred during the period from 1935-1947 - and most of these were doing sidekick duty to Roy Rogers and Wild Bill Elliott.
Click on the title above for a link to a great website devoted to "Gabby" Hayes which has additional information about his life..
