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
1958
- U.S. Marshall as Jones
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
- 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
- The Outlaw's Daughter as Moose, Deputy
- Massacre Canyon as Pvt. Archibald Allen
- Southwest Passage as Tall Tale
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
- Bad Men of Tombstone as Red Fisk
- Brimstone as Art Benson
1948
- Station West as Mick Marion
- Smoky Mountain Melody as Saddle Grease Williams
1947
- King of the Wild Horses as Jed Acker
- Over the Santa Fe Trail as Big Boy Jackson
- Road to the Big House as Butch McQuinn
- 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
- Throw a Saddle on a Star as Big Boy
- That Texas Jamboree as Big Boy Frazer
- Cowboy Blues as Big Boy Stover
1945
- The Man Who Walked Alone as Champ
- Song of the Prairie as Big Boy Jackson
- Sing Me a Song of Texas as Big Boy
- Rhythm Round-Up as Zeke Winslow
1944
- Belle of the Yukon as Sheriff Mervin Maitland
- Cowboy and the Senorita as 'Teddy' Bear
- Hands Across the Border as Teddy Bear
- Swing in the Saddle as 'Tiny' Baldwin
- Nevada as Dusty
- Cowboy Canteen as Spud Harrigan
1943
- The Desperadoes as Nitro Rankin
- Minesweeper as CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith
- Stars on Horseback
1942
- Lure of the Islands as Jinx
- Silver Queen as Blackie
- Mr. Wise Guy as Luke Manning
- The Bugle Sounds as Sgt. Krims
- Between Us Girls as Father of the Boys
- American Empire as Sailaway
1941
- You'll Never Get Rich as Kewpie Blain
- Mr. Bug Goes to Town as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Riders of Death Valley as Borax Bill
- Swamp Water as Bud Dorson
- Billy the Kid as Ed Bronson (blacksmith)
- Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga as Alvin
- Country Fair as Gunther Potts
1940
- Santa Fe Trail as Windy Brody
- Castle on the Hudson as Mike Cagle
- Virginia City as Marblehead
- The Fighting 69th as Paddy Dolan
- Money and the Woman as Mr. Adle
- Alias the Deacon as Bull Gumbatz
- Pleased to Mitt You as Chuck Brenner
- Dulcy as Henry
- Wagons Westward as Jake Hardman
1939
- Dodge City as Tex Baird
- Mutiny on the Blackhawk as Blake - the First Mate
- Legion of Lost Flyers as Jake Halley
- Street of Missing Men as T-Bone
- Blackmail as Moose McCarthy
- Bad Lands as Billy Sweet
- 6,000 Enemies as Maxie
- Pardon Our Nerve as Samson Smith
- Fugitive at Large as Conway (as Guinn Williams)
1938
- Everybody's Doing It as 'Softy' Blane
- You and Me as Taxi
- Hold That Co-ed as Mike Wurgerski
- Army Girl as Ross
- The Marines Are Here as Sgt. Gibbons
- Professor Beware as Motorcycle Cop
- Down in 'Arkansaw' as Juble Butler
- Crashing Through Danger as Slim
- I Demand Payment as Happy Crofton
1937
- A Star Is Born as Posture Coach
- You Only Live Once as Rogers
- Don't Tell the Wife as Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal
- Flying Fists as Slug Cassidy
- She's No Lady as Jeff
- Wise Girl as Mike
- My Dear Miss Aldrich as An Attendant
- The Bad Man of Brimstone as Vulch McCreedy
- The Singing Marine as Dopey
- Big City as Danny Devlin
- Girls Can Play as Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan
- Dangerous Holiday as Duke Edwards
1936
- End of the Trail as Bob Hildreth
- Love on a Bet as Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
- The Vigilantes Are Coming as Salvation
- Muss 'em Up as 'Red' Cable
- The Champ's a Chump as Spike
- Career Woman as Bede Sanders
- The Big Game as Pete Jenkins
- Grand Jury as Joseph Britt
- Kelly the Second as Cecil Joseph Callahan
- North of Nome as Haage
1935
- The Littlest Rebel as Sergeant Dudley
- Big Boy Rides Again as Tom Duncan
- One in a Million as Spike McGafferty
- Gun Play as Bill Williams
- The Law of 45's as Tucson Two-Gun Smith
- Danger Trails as Bob Wilson
- The Glass Key as Jeff
- Private Worlds as Jerry Stone
- Village Tale as Ben Roberts
- Powdersmoke Range as Lullaby Joslin
- Society Fever as Edgar Prouty
- Miss Pacific Fleet as Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend
1934
- Flirtation Walk as Sleepy
- Here Comes the Navy as Dance-Floor Manager
- Half a Sinner as 'Bull' Moran
- Romance in the Rain as Panya Mankiewicz
- Cowboy Holiday as Buck Sawyer
- Cheaters as Detective Sweeney
- The Silver Streak as Higgins
- The Undie-World as Bugsy McHugh
- Palooka as Slats (uncredited)
- Thunder Over Texas as Ted Wright
1933
- Man of the Forest as Big Boy
- Rafter Romance as Fritzie
- Laughing at Life as Jones
- College Coach as Matthews
- The Mystery Squadron as Bill 'Jellybean' Cook
- The Phantom Broadcast as Sandy Higgins
1932
- Heritage of the Desert as Lefty
- You Said a Mouthful as Swimmer Joe Holt (uncredited)
- Ladies of the Jury as Steve Bromm (uncredited)
- The Devil Is Driving as Mac
- Polly of the Circus as Eric
- 70,000 Witnesses as Connors
- Boys Will Be Boys as Butch
- Running Hollywood as Scratchface Henchman
- Drifting Souls as Bing
1931
- Catch-As Catch-Can as Strangler Sullivan
- War Mamas as Doughboy
- The Bachelor Father as Dick Berney
- The Great Meadow as Rubin Hall
- The Phantom as Dick Mallory
1930
- City Girl as Reaper
- College Lovers as Tiny Courtley
- The Big Fight as Tiger
- Liliom as Hollinger
- 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
- Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath as Sweeney
- Beggars of Life as Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited)
- Burning Daylight as English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)
- My Man as Joe Halsey
- Vamping Venus as Mars
1927
- Snowbound as Bull Morgan
- Lightning as Cuth Stewart
- Backstage as Mike Donovan
- Babe Comes Home as Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams)
- The Woman Who Did Not Care as Lars
- Arizona Bound as Cowboy
- The Down Grade as Ed Holden
- Quarantined Rivals as Joe, the plumber
- The College Widow as Don White (as Big Boy Williams)
- Slide, Kelly, Slide as McLean
1926
- The Desert's Toll as Henchman
- Brown of Harvard as Hal Walter
1925
- Whistling Jim as Whistling Jim
- Sporting West
- Bad Man from Bodie
- Red Blood and Blue as Tom Butler
- Rose of the Desert as Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams)
- Riders of the Sand Storm as The Cowboy
- The Black Cyclone as Jim Lawson
- The Big Stunt
- Wolfheart's Revenge as Jack Stanley
- Fangs of Wolfheart
- Courage 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
- $1,000 Reward
- Riders at Night
1922
- Blaze Away as Big Boy
- Rounding Up the Law as Larry Connell
- The Trail of Hate as Silent Kerry
- The Freshie as Charles Taylor
- The Ropin' Fool as The Foreman
- Across the Border as Andy Fowler
- Remembrance
- The Cowboy King as Dud Smiley
1921
- The Jack Rider as Frank Stevens
- The Vengeance Trail as Big Boy Bronson
- 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