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