Joe Sawyer
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joe Sawyer (born Joseph Sauers, August 29, 1906 – April 21, 1982) was a Canadian film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1927 and 1962, and was sometimes billed under his birth name. He was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Sawyer gained acting experience in the Pasadena Playhouse. Popular roles that he portrayed included Sergeant Biff O'Hara in the Rin Tin Tin television program, a film, and on radio. On Stories of the Century in 1954, he portrayed Butch Cassidy, a role which he repeated in the 1958 episode "The Outlaw Legion" of the syndicated western series Frontier Doctor starring Rex Allen, with Doris Singleton and Michael Ansara as fellow guest stars. Sawyer also appeared on ABC's, Maverick, Sugarfoot, Peter Gunn, and Surfside 6 as well as NBC's Bat Masterson. Sawyer died April 21, 1982, in Ashland, Oregon from liver cancer. He was 75. His interment was in Oregon.
Known for
Credits
How the West Was Won (1962)
as Riverboat Officer (uncredited)
The Killing (1956)
as Mike O'Reilly
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
as Bookkeeper
Stolen Heaven (1938)
as Bako
Passport Husband (1938)
as Duke Selton
Gilda (1946)
as Casey
Slim (1937)
as Windy Wilcox
Sergeant York (1941)
as Sergeant Early
Hay Foot (1942)
as Sergeant Ames
Motor Madness (1937)
as Steve Dolan
Belle Starr (1941)
as John Cole
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
as Sgt. Doolittle
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
as Werner Renz
Arsène Lupin (1932)
as Leroux (uncredited)
The Public Enemy (1931)
as Pool Player (uncredited)
Special Agent (1935)
as Rich - Chief Henchman
Fighting Back (1948)
as Police Sergeant Scudder
The Outlaw (1943)
as Charley Woodruff
North to Alaska (1960)
as Land Commissioner
Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
as Whitey Franks (uncredited)
Ace of Aces (1933)
as Captain Daly
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
as The Sergeant
Here Comes Trouble (1948)
as Officer Ames
Tucson (1949)
as Tod Bryant
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
as Davis
The Informer (1935)
as Bartly Mulholland
About Face (1942)
as Sgt. William Ames
Down Mexico Way (1941)
as Allen
Union Pacific (1939)
as Shamus (uncredited)
It Came from Outer Space (1953)
as Frank Daylon
Jimmy the Gent (1934)
as Mike (uncredited)
The Naughty Nineties (1945)
as Bailey
Hit the Ice (1943)
as Buster
Campus Sweethearts (1930)
Actor
The Prescott Kid (1934)
as Marshal Willoughby
Dark Command (1940)
as Bushropp
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
as Kitzmiller
Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
as Sgt. Hamma
The Walking Dead (1936)
as 'Trigger' Smith
Kazan (1949)
as Sandz Jepson
They Gave Him a Gun (1937)
as Doyle - Gangster (uncredited)
Blondie's Hero (1950)
as Sergeant Gateson
Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)
as Karl Straeder
The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
as Mannion's Thug (uncredited)
Riding Shotgun (1954)
as Tom Biggert
Huddle (1932)
as Slater
Tarzan's Revenge (1938)
as Olaf Punch
Sundown Jim (1942)
as Ben Moffitt
Olsen’s Big Moment (1933)
as Dapper' Danny Reynolds
A Double Life (1947)
as Pete Bonner
Red Skies of Montana (1952)
as R. A. 'Pop' Miller
The Petrified Forest (1936)
as Jackie
Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)
as Kalem McCoy
Swamp Water (1941)
as Hardy Ragan
Big Brown Eyes (1936)
as Jack Sully
You're in the Army Now (1941)
as Sergeant Madden
I Found Stella Parish (1935)
as Chuck (as Joseph Sawyer)
The Accusing Finger (1936)
as Father Regan, chaplain
Little Big Shot (1935)
as Doré's Henchman
Last of the Duanes (1941)
as Bull Lossomer
Buckskin Frontier (1943)
as Brannigan
The Gay Amigo (1949)
as Sergeant McNulty
Death on the Diamond (1934)
as "Dunc" Spencer
Coroner Creek (1948)
as Frank Yordy
The Stranger's Return (1933)
as Thresher
Johnny Dark (1954)
as Carl Svenson
You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)
as Red
South of Dixie (1944)
as Ernest Hatcher
King of the Lumberjacks (1940)
as Jigger
Frontier Marshal (1939)
as Curley Bill
Legends of the West (1992)
as Curley Bill in 'Frontier Marshall' (archive footage) (uncredited)
And Baby Makes Three (1949)
as Police officer
Hold Your Man (1933)
as Policeman at Reformatory (uncredited)
Tanks a Million (1941)
as Sgt. William Ames
The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
as Carl Trask (uncredited)
The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956)
as Bancroft Baines
Special Investigator (1936)
as Jim Plummer
Raiders of Ghost City (1944)
as Idaho Jones
Roses Are Red (1947)
as Police Lt. Rocky Wall
Frisco Kid (1935)
as Slugs Crippen (as Joseph Sawyer)
Fighting Father Dunne (1948)
as Steve Davis
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (1995)
as Frank Daylon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Pride of Maryland (1951)
as Knuckles
Three Cornered Moon (1933)
as Head Lifeguard (uncredited)
Melody Ranch (1940)
as Jasper Wildhack
Brooklyn Orchid (1942)
as Eddie Corbett
San Quentin (1937)
as 'Sailor Boy' Hansen
I Stole a Million (1939)
as Billings
Half Past Midnight (1948)
as Det. Lt. Joe Nash
Two in a Crowd (1936)
as Bonelli's Henchman
Mr. Walkie Talkie (1952)
as Sgt. Ames
Eskimo (1933)
as Sergeant Hunt (uncredited)
The Runaround (1946)
as Hutchins
Murder with Pictures (1936)
as Inspector Tom Bacon
If You Knew Susie (1948)
as Zero Zantini
Operation Haylift (1950)
as George Swallow
Deputy Marshal (1949)
as Eli Cressett
The Traveling Saleswoman (1950)
as Cactus Jack
College Humor (1933)
as Tex Roust (as Joseph Sauers)
The Flying Missile (1950)
as Fuss Payne
Lucky Cisco Kid (1940)
as Bill Stevens
Women Without Names (1940)
as Principal Keeper Grimley
Son of a Sailor (1933)
as Slug
Sabotage (1939)
as Gardner
Big Town After Dark (1947)
as Monk
Golden Harvest (1933)
as Farmhand (uncredited)
Pride of the Marines (1936)
as Tennessee
Black Legion (1937)
as Cliff Summers
The Country Doctor (1936)
as Joe, the Logger Lifting Log (uncredited)
The Singing Sheriff (1944)
as Squint
Great Guy (1936)
as Joe Burton
College Rhythm (1934)
as Spud Miller
Maker of Men (1931)
as Bennett the Monroe Coach (uncredited)
The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)
as Sheriff 'Noisy' Burkett, Henchman
The Lucky Stiff (1949)
as Tony
Down in San Diego (1941)
as Dutch
Freshman Love (1936)
as Coach Kendall
Car 99 (1935)
as Whitey, burly henchman
Rose Bowl (1936)
as Announcer
Indian Uprising (1952)
as Sgt. Maj. Phineas T. Keogh
Moon Over Las Vegas (1944)
as Joe
Sing and Like It (1934)
as Gunner - Hood
Crash Donovan (1936)
as Henchman (uncredited)
Yanks Ahoy (1943)
as Sgt. Ames
Joe Palooka, Champ (1946)
as Lefty
Sequoia (1935)
as Forest Ranger (uncredited)
The Border Legion (1940)
as Jim Gulden
The Storm (1938)
as Kelly
Heart of the North (1938)
as Red Crocker
Man of Iron (1935)
as Crawford
Looking for Trouble (1934)
as Max Stanley
Brewster's Millions (1945)
as Hacky Smith
The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936)
as Sgt. Regan
A Letter From Bataan (1942)
as Roy - John's Brother-in-Law
Inside Information (1939)
as Detective Grazzi
High Tension (1936)
as Terry Madden
Broadway Gondolier (1935)
as 'Red'
Hey, Rookie (1944)
as Sergeant
Gridiron Flash (1934)
as Coach Eversmith
College Coach (1933)
as Holcomb
And Sudden Death (1936)
as Police Sgt. Sanborn
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950)
as Jake
Tornado (1943)
as Charlie Muscles
Behind the Criminal (1937)
as Red Manders
Wildcat Bus (1940)
as Burke
G.I. War Brides (1946)
as Sgt. Frank Moraski
A Son Comes Home (1936)
as First Truck Driver
Christmas Eve (1947)
as Private Detective
Deadline at Dawn (1946)
as Babe Dooley
The Arizonian (1935)
as Henchman Keeler
Let's Face It (1943)
as Sgt. Wiggins
Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West (1991)
as Sgt. Biff O'Hara
Reported Missing (1937)
as 'Brad' Martin
Moonlight on the Prairie (1935)
as Luke Thomas
Navy Blues (1937)
as Chips
The Lady and the Mob (1939)
as Blinky Mack
Alaska Highway (1943)
as Roughhouse
Saturday's Millions (1933)
as Coach
Midnight Madonna (1937)
as Wolfe
The Untamed Breed (1948)
as Hoy Keegan
Sleepy Lagoon (1943)
as Lumpy
Taxi, Mister (1943)
as Eddie Corbett
As You Were (1951)
as Sgt. Ames
Gambling Ship (1938)
as Tony Garzoni
Prairie Chickens (1943)
as Albertson
The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin (1958)
as Sgt. 'Biff' O'Hara
The Man from Montreal (1939)
as Biff Anders (as Joseph Sawyer)
The Band Plays On (1934)
as Mr. Thomas
High Powered (1945)
as Spike Kenny
Fall In (1942)
as Sgt. Ames
Always in Trouble (1938)
as Buster Mussendorfer
The McGuerins from Brooklyn (1942)
as Eddie Corbett
Wrecking Crew (1942)
as Fred Bunce
The House Across the Bay (1940)
as Charlie
Stagecoach Kid (1949)
as Thatcher
The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934)
as Building Guard (uncredited)
Cowboy in Manhattan (1943)
as Louie
The Lady Fights Back (1937)
as Swede Jannsen
A Dangerous Adventure (1937)
as Dutch
Inside Job (1946)
as Police Capt. Thomas
The Westerner (1934)
as Bob Lockhart
Honeymoon Deferred (1940)
as Detective James