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
- Wagon Train as Calvin Bryngelson
- Sugarfoot as Moose McKlintock
- Tales of Wells Fargo as Mike Forbes
- 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 Adventures of Rin Tin Tin as Sgt. Muldoon
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Buffalo
- 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
- Springfield Rifle as Sgt. Snow
- Hangman's Knot as Smitty
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
- Smoky River Serenade as Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams)
- Over the Santa Fe Trail as Big Boy Jackson
1946
- Singin' in the Corn as Hank
- Singing on the Trail as Big Boy Webster
- Throw a Saddle on a Star as Big Boy
- That Texas Jamboree as Big Boy Frazer
- Cowboy Blues as Big Boy Stover
1945
- Sing Me a Song of Texas as Big Boy
- Rhythm Round-Up as Zeke Winslow
- The Man Who Walked Alone as Champ
- Song of the Prairie as Big Boy Jackson
1944
- Nevada as Dusty
- Cowboy and the Senorita as 'Teddy' Bear
- Hands Across the Border as Teddy Bear
- Belle of the Yukon as Sheriff Mervin Maitland
- Cowboy Canteen as Spud Harrigan
- Swing in the Saddle as 'Tiny' Baldwin
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
- Mr. Wise Guy as Luke Manning
- The Bugle Sounds as Sgt. Krims
- Between Us Girls as Father of the Boys
- Lure of the Islands as Jinx
1941
- You'll Never Get Rich as Kewpie Blain
- Billy the Kid as Ed Bronson (blacksmith)
- Swamp Water as Bud Dorson
- Mr. Bug Goes to Town as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Riders of Death Valley as Borax Bill
- Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga as Alvin
- Country Fair as Gunther Potts
1940
- Santa Fe Trail as Windy Brody
- Virginia City as Marblehead
- Castle on the Hudson as Mike Cagle
- Money and the Woman as Mr. Adle
- Alias the Deacon as Bull Gumbatz
- Dulcy as Henry
- The Fighting 69th as Paddy Dolan
- Wagons Westward as Jake Hardman
- Pleased to Mitt You as Chuck Brenner
1939
- Dodge City as Tex Baird
- Blackmail as Moose McCarthy
- Bad Lands as Billy Sweet
- Pardon Our Nerve as Samson Smith
- Fugitive at Large as Conway (as Guinn Williams)
- 6,000 Enemies as Maxie
- Legion of Lost Flyers as Jake Halley
- Street of Missing Men as T-Bone
- Mutiny on the Blackhawk as Blake - the First Mate
1938
- You and Me as Taxi
- Professor Beware as Motorcycle Cop
- Army Girl as Ross
- Hold That Co-ed as Mike Wurgerski
- Everybody's Doing It as 'Softy' Blane
- I Demand Payment as Happy Crofton
- The Marines Are Here as Sgt. Gibbons
- Crashing Through Danger as Slim
- Down in 'Arkansaw' as Juble Butler
1937
- A Star Is Born as Posture Coach
- You Only Live Once as Rogers
- The Singing Marine as Dopey
- The Bad Man of Brimstone as Vulch McCreedy
- Big City as Danny Devlin
- Wise Girl as Mike
- Flying Fists as Slug Cassidy
- Girls Can Play as Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan
- Don't Tell the Wife as Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal
- My Dear Miss Aldrich as An Attendant
- Dangerous Holiday as Duke Edwards
- She's No Lady as Jeff
1936
- Love on a Bet as Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
- The Big Game as Pete Jenkins
- Career Woman as Bede Sanders
- Muss 'em Up as 'Red' Cable
- The Vigilantes Are Coming as Salvation
- Grand Jury as Joseph Britt
- Kelly the Second as Cecil Joseph Callahan
- North of Nome as Haage
- End of the Trail as Bob Hildreth
- The Champ's a Chump as Spike
1935
- The Littlest Rebel as Sgt. Dudley
- The Law of 45's as Tucson Two-Gun Smith
- Village Tale as Ben Roberts
- The Glass Key as Jeff
- Miss Pacific Fleet as Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend
- Private Worlds as Jerry Stone
- Powdersmoke Range as Lullaby Joslin
- Danger Trails as Bob Wilson
- Big Boy Rides Again as Tom Duncan
- Society Fever as Edgar Prouty
- Gun Play as Bill Williams
- One in a Million as Spike McGafferty
1934
- Half a Sinner as 'Bull' Moran
- Here Comes the Navy as Dance-Floor Manager
- Flirtation Walk as Sleepy
- Cowboy Holiday as Buck Sawyer
- Palooka as Slats (uncredited)
- Romance in the Rain as Panya Mankiewicz
- The Silver Streak as Higgins
- Thunder Over Texas as Ted Wright
- The Undie-World as Bugsy McHugh
- Cheaters as Detective Sweeney
1933
- Man of the Forest as Big Boy
- Rafter Romance as Fritzie
- College Coach as Matthews
- Laughing at Life as Jones
- The Mystery Squadron as Bill 'Jellybean' Cook
- The Phantom Broadcast as Sandy Higgins
1932
- You Said a Mouthful as Swimmer Joe Holt (uncredited)
- Heritage of the Desert as Lefty
- The Devil Is Driving as Mac
- Polly of the Circus as Eric
- Ladies of the Jury as Steve Bromm (uncredited)
- Drifting Souls as Bing
- Running Hollywood as Scratchface Henchman
- Boys Will Be Boys as Butch
- 70,000 Witnesses as Connors
1931
- War Mamas as Doughboy
- The Phantom as Dick Mallory
- The Bachelor Father as Dick Berney
- The Great Meadow as Rubin Hall
- Catch-As Catch-Can as Strangler Sullivan
1930
- City Girl as Reaper
- The Big Fight as Tiger
- Liliom as Hollinger
- The Bad Man as Red Giddings
- College Lovers as Tiny Courtley
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)
- Burning Daylight as English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)
- My Man as Joe Halsey
- Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath as Sweeney
- Vamping Venus as Mars
1927
- The College Widow as Don White (as Big Boy Williams)
- Quarantined Rivals as Joe, the plumber
- Snowbound as Bull Morgan
- Babe Comes Home as Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams)
- Arizona Bound as Cowboy
- Backstage as Mike Donovan
- The Woman Who Did Not Care as Lars
- The Down Grade as Ed Holden
- Slide, Kelly, Slide as McLean
- Lightning as Cuth Stewart
1926
- Brown of Harvard as Hal Walter
- The Desert's Toll as Henchman
1925
- The Black Cyclone as Jim Lawson
- Red Blood and Blue as Tom Butler
- Wolfheart's Revenge as Jack Stanley
- Riders of the Sand Storm as The Cowboy
- Whistling Jim as Whistling Jim
- Fangs of Wolfheart
- The Big Stunt
- Sporting West
- Courage of Wolfheart
- Bad Man from Bodie
- Rose of the Desert as Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams)
1924
- The Eagle's Claw as Dan Carson
- The Avenger as Nat Sherwood
1923
- Uncensored Movies
- Cyclone Jones as Cyclone Jones
- End of the Rope
- $1,000 Reward
- Riders at Night
1922
- Remembrance
- Across the Border as Andy Fowler
- The Trail of Hate as Silent Kerry
- The Freshie as Charles Taylor
- Blaze Away as Big Boy
- The Ropin' Fool as The Foreman
- The Cowboy King as Dud Smiley
- Rounding Up the Law as Larry Connell
1921
- The Vengeance Trail as Big Boy Bronson
- The Jack Rider as Frank Stevens
- Western Firebrands as Billy Fargo
1920
- Godless Men as Seaman
- Cupid the Cowpuncher as Hairoil Johnson
1919
- Jubilo as Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited)
- Almost a Husband