George Sawaya
Born: 1923-08-14 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Died: 2003-09-17
Known For: Acting
Biography
George Sawaya (August 14, 1923 – September 17, 2003) was an American stuntman and actor. He acted in almost one hundred different films and television episodes, but always as minor characters. His careerwas relatively consistent from the 1950s to the 1980s. Sawaya acted in the original Star Trek several times, first as Chief Humboldt in "The Menagerie, Part I" and then as Klingons in "Errand of Mercy" and "Day of the Dove".
Filmography
1984
- Repo Man as First Repo Victim
1982
- Blade Runner ... (Stunts)
- Voyagers!
1981
- Escape from New York ... (Stunts)
- Bustin' Loose ... (Stunts)
- Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen ... (Stunts)
1980
- Cheech & Chong's Next Movie ... (Stunts)
1979
- The Concorde... Airport '79 as Girard
- Beggarman, Thief
1978
- FM ... (Stunts)
- Cops and Robin ... (Stunt Coordinator)
1977
- Kingston: Confidential as Willi
1976
- Quincy, M.E. as Jason Talmadge (uncredited)
- St. Ives as Arab Bagman
- Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II as Mike
1975
- The Master Gunfighter ... (Stunts)
- The Four Deuces ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- The Devil's Rain as Steve Preston
- When Things Were Rotten as The Courier
1974
- The Godfather Part II ... (Stunts)
- Blazing Saddles as Townsman (uncredited)
- Earthquake as Deputy Sherriff (uncredited)
1973
- Barnaby Jones as Ted
- Magnum Force ... (Stunts)
- The Don Is Dead as Garcia (uncredited)
- The Snoop Sisters as Scarface
1972
- Emergency! as Injured Stuntman (uncredited)
- The Rookies
- The Streets of San Francisco
- Moon of the Wolf as Attendant
- The Poseidon Adventure ... (Stunts)
1971
- Columbo as Man
- Cannon
- McMillan & Wife as Al
- Dirty Harry ... (Stunts)
- Monty Nash as Fitzgerald
- Bearcats! as Tower Guard
- Private Duty Nurses as Ahmed
1970
- McCloud as Hitman Tommy Lucas (uncredited)
- Tora! Tora! Tora! ... (Stunts)
1969
1968
- Adam-12 as Bandit
- The Name of the Game as Harv Miller
- It Takes a Thief as Observer
- The Boston Strangler as Police Officer (uncredited)
- Panic in the City as Karl Sinden (Mr. X)
- Sol Madrid as 3rd Dietrich Gunman
1967
- Ironside as Cabbie
- Mannix
- Bonnie and Clyde ... (Stand In)
- Custer
1966
- Star Trek as Second Soldier
- Batman as Templar
- Mission: Impossible as Guard (uncredited)
- The Time Tunnel as French Sailor
- Batman as Quetch
- Shane as Indian #1
1965
- Get Smart
- The F.B.I. as Marty Greene
- Branded
- Convict Stage as Adam Scott
- The Money Trap as Angelo
- The Lollipop Cover as The Fighter
- Fort Courageous as Indian
1964
- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. as Hoodlum #1
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Guard (uncredited)
- The Rogues as Panuji
1963
- Burke's Law as Officer
- Arrest and Trial as 2nd Reporter
- Drums of Africa as Arab
1962
- The Beverly Hillbillies as First Indian Chief
- Combat! as Pierre
- The Lucy Show as Pete
- Hands of a Stranger as Tony Wilder
- The Lloyd Bridges Show as Everett
1961
- Ben Casey
- The Murder Men
- Everything's Ducky as Simmons
- Straightaway
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as Jealous Boyfriend
1959
- The Untouchables as Hood (uncredited)
- The Rebel as Groder
1958
- Bat Masterson as Harry Sutton
- Yancy Derringer as Club Patron (uncredited)
- Curse of the Faceless Man as Tony
1957
- Perry Mason as Connor
1956
- Emergency Hospital as Jack Larson, ambulance driver (uncredited)
- The Black Sleep as Sailor-Subject
- Hot Cars as Det. Fred Holmes
1955
- The Prodigal as Kavak
1954
- Dragnet as McQueen
- Day of Triumph as James the Less
1953
- Desert Legion ... (Stunts)
1951
- Dragnet
- The Living Christ as Pharisee