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