Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Born: 1899-04-25 in Decatur, Texas, USA
Died: 1962-06-06
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Guinn Terrell Williams Jr. (April 26, 1899 – June 6, 1962) was an American actor who appeared in memorable westerns such as Dodge City (1939), Santa Fe Trail (1940), and The Comancheros (1961). He was nicknamed "Big Boy" as he was 6' 2" and had a muscular build from years of working on ranches and playing semi-pro and professional baseball. Williams made his screen debut in the 1919 comedy, Almost A Husband, with Will Rogers and Cullen Landis, and was featured in a large supporting role ten years later in Frank Borzage's Lucky Star with Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. Throughout the 1920s Williams would have a string of successful films, mostly westerns. He then appeared in The Great Meadow alongside Johnny Mack Brown, which was Brown's breakout film. Throughout the 1930s, Williams acted in supporting roles, mostly in westerns, sports, or outdoor dramas. Although not the lead actor in any of them, he was always employed, and was successful as a supporting actor. He often played alongside Hoot Gibson and Harry Carey during that period. In 1941, he became one of many actors cast by Universal Pictures in their large film series, Riders of Death Valley. From the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, Williams appeared in supporting roles in a number of A-pictures, sometimes with high billing, such as You Only Live Once, and in Columbia's first Technicolour film The Desperadoes (1943). Williams was frequently teamed with Alan Hale, Sr. as sidekicks to Errol Flynn in several of his pictures. In 1960, he was cast in the epic film The Alamo and in Home from the Hill with Robert Mitchum. His last role was opposite his close friend John Wayne and Stuart Whitman in The Comancheros.
Filmography
1961
- The Comancheros as Ed McBain - Gunrunner (uncredited)
1960
- The Alamo as Lt. 'Irish' Finn
- Home from the Hill as Hugh Macauley (uncredited)
- Five Bold Women as 'Big Foot' - the wagon driver
1957
- Tales of Wells Fargo as Mike Forbes
- Wagon Train as Calvin Bryngelson
- Sugarfoot as Moose McKlintock
- The Restless Gun as Jeff Bonsell
- The Hired Gun as Elby Kirby
1956
- Circus Boy
- U.S. Marshall as Jones
- Man from Del Rio as Fred Jasper
- Hidden Guns as Kingford
- Fremont: The Trailblazer as Cassidy
1955
- Cheyenne as Prairie Dog
- Gunsmoke as Groat
- My Friend Flicka as Jeb Taylor
1954
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Buffalo
- The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin as Sgt. Muldoon
- Southwest Passage as Tall Tale
- Massacre Canyon as Pvt. Archibald Allen
- The Outlaw's Daughter as Moose, Deputy
1953
- The Life Of Riley as Finnegan
1952
- Hangman's Knot as Smitty
- Springfield Rifle as Sgt. Snow
1951
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok as Tulsa Jack
- Man in the Saddle as Bourke Prine
- Al Jennings of Oklahoma as Lon Tuttle
1950
- Rocky Mountain as Pap Dennison (CSA)
- Hoedown as Small Potatoes
1949
- Brimstone as Art Benson
- Bad Men of Tombstone as Red Fisk
1948
- Station West as Mick Marion
- Smoky Mountain Melody as Saddle Grease Williams
1947
- King of the Wild Horses as Jed Acker (as Big Boy Williams)
- Road to the Big House as Butch McQuinn
- Over the Santa Fe Trail as Big Boy Jackson
- Smoky River Serenade as Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams)
1946
- Singin' in the Corn as Hank
- Singing on the Trail as Big Boy Webster
- Cowboy Blues as Big Boy Stover
- That Texas Jamboree as Big Boy Frazer
- Throw a Saddle on a Star as Big Boy
1945
- Rhythm Round-Up as Zeke Winslow
- Sing Me a Song of Texas as Big Boy
- The Man Who Walked Alone as Champ
- Song of the Prairie as Big Boy Jackson
1944
- Belle of the Yukon as Sheriff Mervin Maitland
- Cowboy and the Senorita as 'Teddy' Bear
- Nevada as Dusty
- Cowboy Canteen as Spud Harrigan
- Swing in the Saddle as 'Tiny' Baldwin
- Hands Across the Border as Teddy Bear
1943
- The Desperadoes as Nitro Rankin
- Minesweeper as CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith
- Stars on Horseback
1942
- American Empire as Sailaway
- Silver Queen as Blackie
- The Bugle Sounds as Sgt. Krims
- Mr. Wise Guy as Luke Manning
- Between Us Girls as Father of the Boys
- Lure of the Islands as Jinx
1941
- Swamp Water as Bud Dorson
- Billy the Kid as Ed Bronson (blacksmith)
- Country Fair as Gunther Potts
- You'll Never Get Rich as Kewpie Blain
- Mr. Bug Goes to Town as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Riders of Death Valley as Borax Bill
- Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga as Alvin
1940
- Santa Fe Trail as Windy Brody
- Virginia City as Marblehead
- The Fighting 69th as Paddy Dolan
- Castle on the Hudson as Mike Cagle
- Dulcy as Henry
- Wagons Westward as Jake Hardman
- Money and the Woman as Mr. Adle
- Alias the Deacon as Bull Gumbatz
- Pleased to Mitt You as Chuck Brenner
1939
- Dodge City as Tex Baird
- Mutiny on the Blackhawk as Blake - the First Mate
- Pardon Our Nerve as Samson Smith
- Bad Lands as Billy Sweet
- Blackmail as Moose McCarthy
- 6,000 Enemies as Maxie
- Legion of Lost Flyers as Jake Halley
- Street of Missing Men as T-Bone
- Fugitive at Large as Conway (as Guinn Williams)
1938
- Army Girl as Ross
- You and Me as Taxi
- Everybody's Doing It as 'Softy' Blane
- Professor Beware as Motorcycle Cop
- The Marines Are Here as Sgt. Gibbons
- Hold That Co-ed as Mike Wurgerski
- Crashing Through Danger as Slim
- Down in 'Arkansaw' as Juble Butler
- I Demand Payment as Happy Crofton
1937
- A Star Is Born as Posture Coach
- Wise Girl as Mike
- The Singing Marine as Dopey
- Flying Fists as Slug Cassidy
- You Only Live Once as Rogers
- Big City as Danny Devlin
- The Bad Man of Brimstone as Vulch McCreedy
- Don't Tell the Wife as Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal
- My Dear Miss Aldrich as An Attendant
- Girls Can Play as Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan
- Dangerous Holiday as Duke Edwards
- She's No Lady as Jeff
1936
- Muss 'em Up as 'Red' Cable
- Love on a Bet as Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
- End of the Trail as Bob Hildreth
- The Big Game as Pete Jenkins
- Career Woman as Bede Sanders
- Grand Jury as Joseph Britt
- North of Nome as Haage
- The Vigilantes Are Coming as Salvation
- Kelly the Second as Cecil Joseph Callahan
- The Champ's a Chump as Spike
1935
- Private Worlds as Jerry Stone
- The Littlest Rebel as Sgt. Dudley
- The Glass Key as Jeff
- Powdersmoke Range as Lullaby Joslin
- Gun Play as Bill Williams
- Village Tale as Ben Roberts
- Miss Pacific Fleet as Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend
- Big Boy Rides Again as Tom Duncan
- Danger Trails as Bob Wilson
- The Law of 45's as Tucson Two-Gun Smith
- One in a Million as Spike McGafferty
- Society Fever as Edgar Prouty
1934
- Flirtation Walk as Sleepy
- Half a Sinner as 'Bull' Moran
- Here Comes the Navy as Dance-Floor Manager
- Romance in the Rain as Panya Mankiewicz
- Cowboy Holiday as Buck Sawyer
- Cheaters as Detective Sweeney
- Palooka as Slats (uncredited)
- The Silver Streak as Higgins
- Thunder Over Texas as Ted Wright
- The Undie-World as Bugsy McHugh
1933
- Rafter Romance as Fritzie
- Man of the Forest as Big Boy
- Laughing at Life as Jones
- College Coach as Matthews
- The Mystery Squadron as Bill 'Jellybean' Cook
- The Phantom Broadcast as Sandy Higgins
1932
- Ladies of the Jury as Steve Bromm (uncredited)
- Boys Will Be Boys as Butch
- Heritage of the Desert as Lefty
- Drifting Souls as Bing
- Polly of the Circus as Eric
- The Devil Is Driving as Mac
- You Said a Mouthful as Swimmer Joe Holt (uncredited)
- Running Hollywood as Scratchface Henchman
- 70,000 Witnesses as Connors
1931
- The Great Meadow as Rubin Hall
- War Mamas as Doughboy
- The Bachelor Father as Dick Berney
- Catch-As Catch-Can as Strangler Sullivan
- The Phantom as Dick Mallory
1930
- City Girl as Reaper
- Liliom as Hollinger
- College Lovers as Tiny Courtley
- The Big Fight as Tiger
- The Bad Man as Red Giddings
1929
- Lucky Star as Martin Wrenn
- The Forward Pass as Honey Smith
- From Headquarters as Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer
1928
- Noah's Ark as Al Wilson / Ham
- Beggars of Life as Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited)
- Vamping Venus as Mars
- Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath as Sweeney
- Burning Daylight as English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)
- My Man as Joe Halsey
1927
- Snowbound as Bull Morgan
- Backstage as Mike Donovan
- The Woman Who Did Not Care as Lars
- The College Widow as Don White (as Big Boy Williams)
- Quarantined Rivals as Joe, the plumber
- Lightning as Cuth Stewart
- The Down Grade as Ed Holden
- Babe Comes Home as Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams)
- Arizona Bound as Cowboy
- Slide, Kelly, Slide as McLean
1926
- Brown of Harvard as Hal Walter
- The Desert's Toll as Henchman
1925
- Whistling Jim as Whistling Jim
- Sporting West
- The Black Cyclone as Jim Lawson
- Wolfheart's Revenge as Jack Stanley
- Bad Man from Bodie
- Red Blood and Blue as Tom Butler
- Riders of the Sand Storm as The Cowboy
- Courage of Wolfheart
- Rose of the Desert as Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams)
- The Big Stunt
- Fangs of Wolfheart
1924
- The Eagle's Claw as Dan Carson
- The Avenger as Nat Sherwood
1923
- Uncensored Movies
- End of the Rope
- Cyclone Jones as Cyclone Jones
- Riders at Night
- $1,000 Reward
1922
- Across the Border as Andy Fowler
- Rounding Up the Law as Larry Connell
- Blaze Away as Big Boy
- The Ropin' Fool as The Foreman
- The Freshie as Charles Taylor
- Remembrance
- The Cowboy King as Dud Smiley
- The Trail of Hate as Silent Kerry
1921
- The Jack Rider as Frank Stevens
- Western Firebrands as Billy Fargo
- The Vengeance Trail as Big Boy Bronson
1920
- Cupid the Cowpuncher as Hairoil Johnson
- Godless Men as Seaman
1919
- Jubilo as Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited)
- Almost a Husband