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