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