Joe Sawyer
Born: 1906-08-29 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Died: 1982-04-21
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
1995
- Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey as Frank Daylon (archive footage) (uncredited)
1992
- Legends of the West as Curley Bill in 'Frontier Marshall' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1991
- Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West as Sgt. Biff O'Hara
1962
- How the West Was Won as Riverboat Officer (uncredited)
1961
1960
- Surfside 6 as Leon Huff
- Harrigan and Son
- North to Alaska as Land Commissioner
1959
- Lock-Up as Sgt. McEvoy
1958
- Peter Gunn
- The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin as Sgt. 'Biff' O'Hara
1957
- Sugarfoot as Fighting Sam Brown
1956
- The Killing as Mike O'Reilly
- The Kettles in the Ozarks as Bancroft Baines
1954
- The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
- Riding Shotgun as Tom Biggert
- Taza, Son of Cochise as Sgt. Hamma
- Johnny Dark as Carl Svenson
1953
- It Came from Outer Space as Frank Daylon
1952
- The Abbott and Costello Show as Chopper
- Deadline - U.S.A. as Whitey Franks (uncredited)
- Red Skies of Montana as R. A. 'Pop' Miller
- Mr. Walkie Talkie as Sgt. Ames
- Indian Uprising as Sgt. Maj. Phineas T. Keogh
1951
- Racket Squad
- Comin' Round the Mountain as Kalem McCoy
- Pride of Maryland as Knuckles
- As You Were as Sgt. Ames
1950
- Curtain Call at Cactus Creek as Jake
- The Flying Missile as Fuss Payne
- Blondie's Hero as Sergeant Gateson
- The Traveling Saleswoman as Cactus Jack
- Operation Haylift as George Swallow
1949
- Kazan as Sandz Jepson
- And Baby Makes Three as Police officer
- Tucson as Tod Bryant
- Deputy Marshal as Eli Cressett
- Stagecoach Kid as Thatcher
- The Gay Amigo as Sergeant McNulty
- The Lucky Stiff as Tony
1948
- Ford Theatre
- If You Knew Susie as Zero Zantini
- Here Comes Trouble as Officer Ames
- Fighting Back as Police Sergeant Scudder
- Coroner Creek as Frank Yordy
- The Untamed Breed as Hoy Keegan
- Half Past Midnight as Det. Lt. Joe Nash
- Fighting Father Dunne as Steve Davis
1947
- A Double Life as Pete Bonner
- Big Town After Dark as Monk
- Christmas Eve as Private Detective
- Roses Are Red as Police Lt. Rocky Wall
1946
- Gilda as Casey
- G.I. War Brides as Sgt. Frank Moraski
- Deadline at Dawn as Babe Dooley
- Inside Job as Police Capt. Thomas
- The Runaround as Hutchins
- Joe Palooka, Champ as Lefty
1945
- The Naughty Nineties as Bailey
- Brewster's Millions as Hacky Smith
- High Powered as Spike Kenny
1944
- Raiders of Ghost City as Idaho Jones
- Moon Over Las Vegas as Joe
- South of Dixie as Ernest Hatcher
- Hey, Rookie as Sergeant
- The Singing Sheriff as Squint
1943
- The Outlaw as Charley Woodruff
- Tarzan's Desert Mystery as Karl Straeder
- Hit the Ice as Buster
- Let's Face It as Sgt. Wiggins
- Prairie Chickens as Albertson
- Alaska Highway as Roughhouse
- Tornado as Charlie Muscles
- Sleepy Lagoon as Lumpy
- Cowboy in Manhattan as Louie
- Yanks Ahoy as Sgt. Ames
- Buckskin Frontier as Brannigan
- Taxi, Mister as Eddie Corbett
1942
- About Face as Sgt. William Ames
- Sundown Jim as Ben Moffitt
- The McGuerins from Brooklyn as Eddie Corbett
- Hay Foot as Sergeant Ames
- A Letter From Bataan as Roy - John's Brother-in-Law
- Fall In as Sgt. Ames
- Brooklyn Orchid as Eddie Corbett
- Wrecking Crew as Fred Bunce
1941
- Sergeant York as Sergeant Early
- They Died with Their Boots On as Sgt. Doolittle
- Belle Starr as John Cole
- Last of the Duanes as Bull Lossomer
- You're in the Army Now as Sergeant Madden
- Swamp Water as Hardy Ragan
- The Lady from Cheyenne as Sheriff 'Noisy' Burkett, Henchman
- Down in San Diego as Dutch
- Down Mexico Way as Allen
- Tanks a Million as Sgt. William Ames
1940
- The Grapes of Wrath as Bookkeeper
- Santa Fe Trail as Kitzmiller
- The Long Voyage Home as Davis
- Dark Command as Bushropp
- King of the Lumberjacks as Jigger
- The House Across the Bay as Charlie
- Melody Ranch as Jasper Wildhack
- The Border Legion as Jim Gulden
- Lucky Cisco Kid as Bill Stevens
- Wildcat Bus as Burke
- Women Without Names as Principal Keeper Grimley
- Honeymoon Deferred as Detective James
1939
- The Roaring Twenties as The Sergeant
- Union Pacific as Shamus (uncredited)
- Confessions of a Nazi Spy as Werner Renz
- I Stole a Million as Billings
- You Can't Get Away with Murder as Red
- The Lady and the Mob as Blinky Mack
- The Man from Montreal as Biff Anders (as Joseph Sawyer)
- Frontier Marshal as Curley Bill
- Sabotage as Gardner
- Inside Information as Detective Grazzi
1938
- Passport Husband as Duke Selton
- Heart of the North as Red Crocker
- Stolen Heaven as Bako
- Tarzan's Revenge as Olaf Punch
- The Storm as Kelly
- Always in Trouble as Buster Mussendorfer
- Gambling Ship as Tony Garzoni
1937
- Slim as Windy Wilcox
- They Gave Him a Gun as Doyle - Gangster (uncredited)
- Black Legion as Cliff Summers
- San Quentin as 'Sailor Boy' Hansen
- The Lady Fights Back as Swede Jannsen
- Motor Madness as Steve Dolan
- A Dangerous Adventure as Dutch
- Navy Blues as Chips
- Reported Missing as 'Brad' Martin
- Behind the Criminal as Red Manders
- Midnight Madonna as Wolfe
1936
- The Walking Dead as 'Trigger' Smith
- The Petrified Forest as Jackie
- Two in a Crowd as Bonelli's Henchman
- The Leathernecks Have Landed as Sgt. Regan
- The Accusing Finger as Father Regan, chaplain
- Big Brown Eyes as Jack Sully
- A Son Comes Home as First Truck Driver
- Pride of the Marines as Tennessee
- Great Guy as Joe Burton
- And Sudden Death as Police Sgt. Sanborn
- Freshman Love as Coach Kendall
- Crash Donovan as Henchman (uncredited)
- The Country Doctor as Joe, the Logger Lifting Log (uncredited)
- Murder with Pictures as Inspector Tom Bacon
- Rose Bowl as Announcer
- High Tension as Terry Madden
- Special Investigator as Jim Plummer
1935
- The Whole Town's Talking as Mannion's Thug (uncredited)
- Moonlight on the Prairie as Luke Thomas
- I Found Stella Parish as Chuck (as Joseph Sawyer)
- The Informer as Bartly Mulholland
- Frisco Kid as Slugs Crippen (as Joseph Sawyer)
- Special Agent as Rich - Chief Henchman
- Broadway Gondolier as 'Red'
- Car 99 as Whitey, burly henchman
- Little Big Shot as Doré's Henchman
- Man of Iron as Crawford
- The Arizonian as Henchman Keeler
- Sequoia as Forest Ranger (uncredited)
1934
- The Case of the Howling Dog as Carl Trask (uncredited)
- Jimmy the Gent as Mike (uncredited)
- Death on the Diamond as "Dunc" Spencer
- Sing and Like It as Gunner - Hood
- The Notorious Sophie Lang as Building Guard (uncredited)
- The Band Plays On as Mr. Thomas
- The Prescott Kid as Marshal Willoughby
- Looking for Trouble as Max Stanley
- College Rhythm as Spud Miller
- Gridiron Flash as Coach Eversmith
- The Westerner as Bob Lockhart
1933
- The Stranger's Return as Thresher
- Son of a Sailor as Slug
- Hold Your Man as Policeman at Reformatory (uncredited)
- Olsen’s Big Moment as Dapper' Danny Reynolds
- Ace of Aces as Captain Daly
- College Humor as Tex Roust (as Joseph Sauers)
- Three Cornered Moon as Head Lifeguard (uncredited)
- College Coach as Holcomb
- Eskimo as Sergeant Hunt (uncredited)
- Golden Harvest as Farmhand (uncredited)
- Saturday's Millions as Coach
1932
- Arsène Lupin as Leroux (uncredited)
- Huddle as Slater
1931
- The Public Enemy as Pool Player (uncredited)
- Maker of Men as Bennett the Monroe Coach (uncredited)