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