Joe Sawyer
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.
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- Born:
- Aug 29, 1906 In Guelph, Ontario, Canada
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 178
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Public Enemy 1931-04-23
- Latest Project:
- Movie Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey 1995-08-24
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey | Frank Daylon (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1995-08-24 |
| Movie | Legends of the West | Curley Bill in 'Frontier Marshall' | 1992-09-08 |
| Movie | How the West Was Won | Riverboat Officer (uncredited) | 1962-11-02 |
| Series | Everglades | Unknown | 1961-10-09 |
| Series | Surfside 6 | Unknown | 1960-10-06 |
| Series | Harrigan and Son | Unknown | 1960-10-14 |
| Movie | North to Alaska | Land Commissioner | 1960-11-07 |
| Series | Lock-Up | Unknown | 1959-09-28 |
| Movie | The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin | Sgt. 'Biff' O'Hara | 1958-08-01 |
| Series | Peter Gunn | Unknown | 1958-09-22 |
| Series | Sugarfoot | Unknown | 1957-09-17 |
| Movie | The Kettles in the Ozarks | Bancroft Baines | 1956-04-01 |
| Movie | The Killing | Mike O'Reilly | 1956-06-06 |
| Movie | Taza, Son of Cochise | Sgt. Hamma | 1954-02-18 |
| Movie | Riding Shotgun | Tom Biggert | 1954-04-01 |
| Movie | Johnny Dark | Carl Svenson | 1954-06-25 |
| Series | The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin | 1954-10-15 | |
| Movie | It Came from Outer Space | Frank Daylon | 1953-06-05 |
| Movie | Indian Uprising | Sgt. Maj. Phineas T. Keogh | 1952-01-02 |
| Movie | Red Skies of Montana | R. A. 'Pop' Miller | 1952-01-23 |
| Movie | Deadline - U.S.A. | Whitey Franks (uncredited) | 1952-03-14 |
| Movie | Mr. Walkie Talkie | Sgt. Ames | 1952-11-28 |
| Series | Racket Squad | Unknown | 1951-06-07 |
| Movie | Comin' Round the Mountain | Kalem McCoy | 1951-07-26 |
| Movie | As You Were | Sgt. Ames | 1951-10-05 |
| Movie | Blondie's Hero | Sergeant Gateson | 1950-03-09 |
| Movie | Operation Haylift | George Swallow | 1950-05-05 |
| Movie | The Traveling Saleswoman | Cactus Jack | 1950-02-15 |
| Movie | Curtain Call at Cactus Creek | Jake | 1950-05-25 |
| Movie | The Flying Missile | Fuss Payne | 1950-12-24 |
| Movie | The Gay Amigo | Sergeant McNulty | 1949-05-13 |
| Movie | Tucson | Tod Bryant | 1949-04-27 |
| Movie | The Lucky Stiff | Tony | 1949-05-26 |
| Movie | Stagecoach Kid | Thatcher | 1949-06-02 |
| Movie | And Baby Makes Three | Police officer | 1949-12-02 |
| Movie | Deputy Marshal | Eli Cressett | 1949-10-28 |
| Movie | Half Past Midnight | Det. Lt. Joe Nash | 1948-03-01 |
| Movie | Fighting Father Dunne | Steve Davis | 1948-05-12 |
| Movie | If You Knew Susie | Zero Zantini | 1948-02-07 |
| Movie | Here Comes Trouble | Officer Ames | 1948-03-15 |
| Movie | Coroner Creek | Frank Yordy | 1948-07-01 |
| Series | Ford Theatre | Unknown | 1948-10-17 |
| Movie | Fighting Back | Police Sergeant Scudder | 1948-07-30 |
| Movie | The Untamed Breed | Hoy Keegan | 1948-10-20 |
| Movie | Christmas Eve | Private Detective | 1947-10-31 |
| Movie | Roses Are Red | Police Lt. Rocky Wall | 1947-11-10 |
| Movie | A Double Life | Pete Bonner | 1947-12-25 |
| Movie | Big Town After Dark | Monk | 1947-12-12 |
| Movie | Deadline at Dawn | Babe Dooley | 1946-03-18 |
| Movie | Gilda | Casey | 1946-04-25 |
| Movie | The Runaround | Hutchins | 1946-06-04 |
| Movie | Joe Palooka, Champ | Lefty | 1946-05-26 |
| Movie | Inside Job | Police Capt. Thomas | 1946-06-14 |
| Movie | High Powered | Spike Kenny | 1945-02-27 |
| Movie | The Naughty Nineties | Bailey | 1945-06-20 |
| Movie | Brewster's Millions | Hacky Smith | 1945-04-07 |
| Movie | Hey, Rookie | Sergeant | 1944-04-06 |
| Movie | South of Dixie | Ernest Hatcher | 1944-06-23 |
| Movie | Moon Over Las Vegas | Joe | 1944-04-01 |
| Movie | Raiders of Ghost City | Idaho Jones | 1944-07-25 |
| Movie | The Singing Sheriff | Squint | 1944-09-01 |
| Movie | Cowboy in Manhattan | Louie | 1943-05-21 |
| Movie | Prairie Chickens | Albertson | 1943-05-21 |
| Movie | Buckskin Frontier | Brannigan | 1943-05-14 |
| Movie | The Outlaw | Charley Woodruff | 1943-02-05 |
| Movie | Hit the Ice | Buster | 1943-06-02 |
| Movie | Taxi, Mister | Eddie Corbett | 1943-04-16 |
| Movie | Tarzan's Desert Mystery | Karl Straeder | 1943-12-26 |
| Movie | Alaska Highway | Roughhouse | 1943-06-24 |
| Movie | Sleepy Lagoon | Lumpy | 1943-09-05 |
| Movie | Tornado | Charlie Muscles | 1943-08-09 |
| Movie | Yanks Ahoy | Sgt. Ames | 1943-06-29 |
| Movie | Let's Face It | Sgt. Wiggins | 1943-08-04 |
| Movie | Brooklyn Orchid | Eddie Corbett | 1942-01-31 |
| Movie | Hay Foot | Sergeant Ames | 1942-01-02 |
| Movie | Sundown Jim | Ben Moffitt | 1942-03-27 |
| Movie | Wrecking Crew | Fred Bunce | 1942-11-07 |
| Movie | About Face | Sgt. William Ames | 1942-04-16 |
| Movie | The McGuerins from Brooklyn | Eddie Corbett | 1942-12-31 |
| Movie | Fall In | Sgt. Ames | 1942-11-20 |
| Movie | Belle Starr | John Cole | 1941-09-12 |
| Movie | Tanks a Million | Sgt. William Ames | 1941-09-12 |
| Movie | Sergeant York | Sergeant Early | 1941-09-27 |
| Movie | Down in San Diego | Dutch | 1941-08-01 |
| Movie | The Lady from Cheyenne | Sheriff 'Noisy' Burkett, Henchman | 1941-04-11 |
| Movie | You're in the Army Now | Sergeant Madden | 1941-12-25 |
| Movie | They Died with Their Boots On | Sgt. Doolittle | 1941-11-20 |
| Movie | Down Mexico Way | Allen | 1941-10-15 |
| Movie | Swamp Water | Hardy Ragan | 1941-11-16 |
| Movie | The Grapes of Wrath | Bookkeeper | 1940-03-15 |
| Movie | King of the Lumberjacks | Jigger | 1940-04-13 |
| Movie | Women Without Names | Principal Keeper Grimley | 1940-03-14 |
| Movie | The House Across the Bay | Charlie | 1940-03-01 |
| Movie | Dark Command | Bushropp | 1940-04-15 |
| Movie | Honeymoon Deferred | Detective James | 1940-02-16 |
| Movie | Lucky Cisco Kid | Bill Stevens | 1940-06-28 |
| Movie | Santa Fe Trail | Kitzmiller | 1940-12-20 |
| Movie | The Long Voyage Home | Davis | 1940-11-16 |
| Movie | The Border Legion | Jim Gulden | 1940-12-05 |
| Movie | Melody Ranch | Jasper Wildhack | 1940-09-15 |
| Movie | Wildcat Bus | Burke | 1940-08-23 |
| Movie | Confessions of a Nazi Spy | Werner Renz | 1939-05-06 |
| Movie | Union Pacific | Shamus (uncredited) | 1939-05-05 |
| Movie | You Can't Get Away with Murder | Red | 1939-03-23 |
| Movie | Frontier Marshal | Curley Bill | 1939-07-28 |
| Movie | The Lady and the Mob | Blinky Mack | 1939-04-03 |
| Movie | I Stole a Million | Billings | 1939-08-01 |
| Movie | The Roaring Twenties | The Sergeant | 1939-10-28 |
| Movie | The Man from Montreal | Biff Anders (as Joseph Sawyer) | 1939-12-09 |
| Movie | Sabotage | Gardner | 1939-10-13 |
| Movie | Rio | Prison Guard (uncredited) | 1939-09-29 |
| Movie | Stolen Heaven | Bako | 1938-05-11 |
| Movie | Tarzan's Revenge | Olaf Punch | 1938-01-07 |
| Movie | Passport Husband | Duke Selton | 1938-07-15 |
| Movie | Always in Trouble | Buster Mussendorfer | 1938-10-28 |
| Movie | Heart of the North | Red Crocker | 1938-12-10 |
| Movie | Gambling Ship | Tony Garzoni | 1938-12-16 |
| Movie | The Storm | Kelly | 1938-10-28 |
| Movie | They Gave Him a Gun | Doyle - Gangster (uncredited) | 1937-05-07 |
| Movie | Black Legion | Cliff Summers | 1937-01-30 |
| Movie | San Quentin | 'Sailor Boy' Hansen | 1937-05-24 |
| Movie | Navy Blues | Chips | 1937-03-29 |
| Movie | Reported Missing | 'Brad' Martin | 1937-08-15 |
| Movie | Midnight Madonna | Wolfe | 1937-07-01 |
| Movie | The Lady Fights Back | Swede Jannsen | 1937-10-01 |
| Movie | Behind the Criminal | Red Manders | 1937-10-30 |
| Movie | A Dangerous Adventure | Dutch | 1937-07-21 |
| Movie | The Country Doctor | Joe, the Logger Lifting Log (uncredited) | 1936-03-12 |
| Movie | Pride of the Marines | Tennessee | 1936-04-02 |
| Movie | Special Investigator | Jim Plummer | 1936-05-08 |
| Movie | Big Brown Eyes | Jack Sully | 1936-04-03 |
| Movie | The Petrified Forest | Jackie | 1936-02-08 |
| Movie | Freshman Love | Coach Kendall | 1936-01-18 |
| Movie | The Leathernecks Have Landed | Sgt. Regan | 1936-02-17 |
| Movie | The Walking Dead | 'Trigger' Smith | 1936-03-01 |
| Movie | Murder with Pictures | Inspector Tom Bacon | 1936-09-24 |
| Movie | Rose Bowl | Announcer | 1936-11-30 |
| Movie | And Sudden Death | Police Sgt. Sanborn | 1936-06-16 |
| Movie | The Accusing Finger | Father Reed, chaplain | 1936-11-17 |
| Movie | Great Guy | Joe Burton | 1936-12-01 |
| Movie | High Tension | Terry Madden | 1936-07-10 |
| Movie | Crash Donovan | Henchman (uncredited) | 1936-08-01 |
| Movie | Two in a Crowd | Bonelli's Henchman | 1936-10-03 |
| Movie | The Informer | Bartly Mulholland | 1935-05-09 |
| Movie | The Arizonian | Henchman Keeler | 1935-06-27 |
| Movie | Car 99 | Whitey, burly henchman | 1935-03-02 |
| Movie | Sequoia | Forest Ranger (uncredited) | 1935-01-16 |
| Movie | Broadway Gondolier | 'Red' | 1935-07-27 |
| Movie | The Whole Town's Talking | Mannion's Thug (uncredited) | 1935-02-22 |
| Movie | Special Agent | Rich - Chief Henchman | 1935-09-14 |
| Movie | Little Big Shot | Doré's Henchman | 1935-09-07 |
| Movie | Man of Iron | Crawford | 1935-12-21 |
| Movie | I Found Stella Parish | Chuck (as Joseph Sawyer) | 1935-11-16 |
| Movie | Frisco Kid | Slugs Crippen (as Joseph Sawyer) | 1935-11-30 |
| Movie | Moonlight on the Prairie | Luke Thomas | 1935-11-02 |
| Movie | The Notorious Sophie Lang | Building Guard (uncredited) | 1934-07-20 |
| Movie | Sing and Like it | Gunner - Hood | 1934-04-20 |
| Movie | Death on the Diamond | "Dunc" Spencer | 1934-09-14 |
| Movie | Jimmy the Gent | Mike (uncredited) | 1934-03-09 |
| Movie | Looking for Trouble | Max Stanley | 1934-03-28 |
| Movie | College Rhythm | Spud Miller | 1934-11-23 |
| Movie | The Case of the Howling Dog | Carl Trask (uncredited) | 1934-09-22 |
| Movie | Prescott Kid | Marshal Willoughby | 1934-11-08 |
| Movie | The Bands Plays On | Mr. Thomas | 1934-12-21 |
| Movie | Gridiron Flash | Coach Eversmith | 1934-10-06 |
| Movie | Golden Harvest | Farmhand (uncredited) | 1933-09-21 |
| Movie | Three-Cornered Moon | Head Lifeguard | 1933-08-08 |
| Movie | The Stranger's Return | Thresher | 1933-07-28 |
| Movie | College Humor | Tex Roust | 1933-07-05 |
| Movie | Saturday's Millions | Coach | 1933-09-30 |
| Movie | Ace of Aces | Captain Daly | 1933-10-20 |
| Movie | Eskimo | Sergeant Hunt (uncredited) | 1933-11-14 |
| Movie | Son of a Sailor | Slug | 1933-11-29 |
| Movie | College Coach | Holcomb | 1933-11-04 |
| Movie | Arsène Lupin | Leroux (uncredited) | 1932-02-26 |
| Movie | Huddle | Slater | 1932-05-14 |
| Movie | The Public Enemy | Pool Player (uncredited) | 1931-04-23 |
| Movie | Maker of Men | Bennett the Monroe Coach (uncredited) | 1931-08-03 |