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