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