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
- Tales of Wells Fargo as Mike Forbes
- Sugarfoot as Moose McKlintock
- The Hired Gun as Elby Kirby
- The Restless Gun as Jeff Bonsell
1956
- Man from Del Rio as Fred Jasper
- Fremont: The Trailblazer as Cassidy
- Circus Boy
- U.S. Marshall as Jones
- Hidden Guns as Kingford
1955
- Cheyenne as Prairie Dog
- Gunsmoke as Groat
- My Friend Flicka as Jeb Taylor
1954
- Southwest Passage as Tall Tale
- The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin as Sgt. Muldoon
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Buffalo
- The Outlaw's Daughter as Moose, Deputy
- Massacre Canyon as Pvt. Archibald Allen
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
- Al Jennings of Oklahoma as Lon Tuttle
- Man in the Saddle as Bourke Prine
1950
- Hoedown as Small Potatoes
- Rocky Mountain as Pap Dennison (CSA)
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
- Smoky River Serenade as Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams)
- 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
1946
- Cowboy Blues as Big Boy Stover
- Throw a Saddle on a Star as Big Boy
- Singing on the Trail as Big Boy Webster
- That Texas Jamboree as Big Boy Frazer
- Singin' in the Corn as Hank
1945
- Song of the Prairie as Big Boy Jackson
- Rhythm Round-Up as Zeke Winslow
- The Man Who Walked Alone as Champ
- Sing Me a Song of Texas as Big Boy
1944
- Nevada as Dusty
- Hands Across the Border as Teddy Bear
- Cowboy and the Senorita as 'Teddy' Bear
- Belle of the Yukon as Sheriff Mervin Maitland
- Swing in the Saddle as 'Tiny' Baldwin
- Cowboy Canteen as Spud Harrigan
1943
- The Desperadoes as Nitro Rankin
- Minesweeper as CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith
- Stars on Horseback
1942
- Silver Queen as Blackie
- Between Us Girls as Father of the Boys
- The Bugle Sounds as Sgt. Krims
- American Empire as Sailaway
- Mr. Wise Guy as Luke Manning
- Lure of the Islands as Jinx
1941
- Country Fair as Gunther Potts
- Swamp Water as Bud Dorson
- Mr. Bug Goes to Town as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Billy the Kid as Ed Bronson (blacksmith)
- You'll Never Get Rich as Kewpie Blain
- Riders of Death Valley as Borax Bill
- Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga as Alvin
1940
- Virginia City as Marblehead
- Dulcy as Henry
- Wagons Westward as Jake Hardman
- Money and the Woman as Mr. Adle
- Alias the Deacon as Bull Gumbatz
- The Fighting 69th as Paddy Dolan
- Santa Fe Trail as Windy Brody
- Castle on the Hudson as Mike Cagle
- Pleased to Mitt You as Chuck Brenner
1939
- Dodge City as Tex Baird
- Bad Lands as Billy Sweet
- Legion of Lost Flyers as Jake Halley
- Street of Missing Men as T-Bone
- Blackmail as Moose McCarthy
- Pardon Our Nerve as Samson Smith
- Fugitive at Large as Conway (as Guinn Williams)
- 6,000 Enemies as Maxie
- Mutiny on the Blackhawk as Blake - the First Mate
1938
- Professor Beware as Motorcycle Cop
- The Marines Are Here as Sgt. Gibbons
- You and Me as Taxi
- Crashing Through Danger as Slim
- Hold That Co-ed as Mike Wurgerski
- Everybody's Doing It as 'Softy' Blane
- Army Girl as Ross
- Down in 'Arkansaw' as Juble Butler
- I Demand Payment as Happy Crofton
1937
- A Star Is Born as Posture Coach
- Big City as Danny Devlin
- My Dear Miss Aldrich as An Attendant
- Flying Fists as Slug Cassidy
- You Only Live Once as Rogers
- Girls Can Play as Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan
- The Bad Man of Brimstone as Vulch McCreedy
- The Singing Marine as Dopey
- Dangerous Holiday as Duke Edwards
- Don't Tell the Wife as Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal
- Wise Girl as Mike
- She's No Lady as Jeff
1936
- Grand Jury as Joseph Britt
- Career Woman as Bede Sanders
- The Big Game as Pete Jenkins
- The Vigilantes Are Coming as Salvation
- End of the Trail as Bob Hildreth
- Love on a Bet as Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
- Kelly the Second as Cecil Joseph Callahan
- North of Nome as Haage
- The Champ's a Chump as Spike
- Muss 'em Up as 'Red' Cable
1935
- Powdersmoke Range as Lullaby Joslin
- Village Tale as Ben Roberts
- Private Worlds as Jerry Stone
- Society Fever as Edgar Prouty
- Gun Play as Bill Williams
- The Littlest Rebel as Sgt. Dudley
- The Glass Key as Jeff
- 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
1934
- Cowboy Holiday as Buck Sawyer
- Palooka as Slats (uncredited)
- Flirtation Walk as Sleepy
- Here Comes the Navy as Dance-Floor Manager
- The Silver Streak as Higgins
- Cheaters as Detective Sweeney
- Thunder Over Texas as Ted Wright
- Romance in the Rain as Panya Mankiewicz
- The Undie-World as Bugsy McHugh
- Half a Sinner as 'Bull' Moran
1933
- Rafter Romance as Fritzie
- College Coach as Matthews
- The Phantom Broadcast as Sandy Higgins
- Man of the Forest as Big Boy
- Laughing at Life as Jones
- The Mystery Squadron as Bill 'Jellybean' Cook
1932
- Running Hollywood as Scratchface Henchman
- 70,000 Witnesses as Connors
- Polly of the Circus as Eric
- Ladies of the Jury as Steve Bromm (uncredited)
- The Devil Is Driving as Mac
- Heritage of the Desert as Lefty
- You Said a Mouthful as Swimmer Joe Holt (uncredited)
- Boys Will Be Boys as Butch
- Drifting Souls as Bing
1931
- The Great Meadow as Rubin Hall
- War Mamas as Doughboy
- The Phantom as Dick Mallory
- The Bachelor Father as Dick Berney
- Catch-As Catch-Can as Strangler Sullivan
1930
- Liliom as Hollinger
- City Girl as Reaper
- College Lovers as Tiny Courtley
- The Bad Man as Red Giddings
- The Big Fight as Tiger
1929
- Lucky Star as Sgt. Martin Wrenn
- From Headquarters as Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer
- The Forward Pass as Honey Smith
1928
- My Man as Joe Halsey
- Vamping Venus as Mars
- Beggars of Life as Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited)
- Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath as Sweeney
- Noah's Ark as Al Wilson / Ham
- Burning Daylight as English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)
1927
- Quarantined Rivals as Joe, the plumber
- Snowbound as Bull Morgan
- The College Widow as Don White (as Big Boy Williams)
- Backstage as Mike Donovan
- Slide, Kelly, Slide as McLean
- Babe Comes Home as Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams)
- Lightning as Cuth Stewart
- The Down Grade as Ed Holden
- Arizona Bound as Cowboy
- The Woman Who Did Not Care as Lars
1926
- Brown of Harvard as Hal Walter
- The Desert's Toll as Henchman
1925
- Black Cyclone as Jim Lawson
- Whistling Jim as Whistling Jim
- Red Blood and Blue as Tom Butler
- Sporting West
- Riders of the Sand Storm as The Cowboy
- Rose of the Desert as Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams)
- Wolfheart's Revenge as Jack Stanley
- Courage of Wolfheart
- Bad Man from Bodie
- Fangs of Wolfheart
- The Big Stunt
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
- Remembrance
- The Freshie as Charles Taylor
- Blaze Away as Big Boy
- The Ropin' Fool as The Foreman
- Rounding Up the Law as Larry Connell
- The Cowboy King as Dud Smiley
- The Trail of Hate as Silent Kerry
- Across the Border as Andy Fowler
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