Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1906-08-29 (76 years old)
Deathday
1982-04-21
Place of Birth
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Also known As
Joe Sauers
Joe Sauer
Joseph Sauers
Joseph Sawyer
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 ...
1956
as Mike O'Reilly
1940
as Bookkeeper
1940
as Kitzmiller
1946
as Casey
1950
as Sergeant Gateson
1943
as Charley Woodruff
1945
as Bailey
1936
as 'Trigger' Smith
1951
as Kalem McCoy
1943
as Buster
1946
as Babe Dooley
1947
as Pete Bonner
1934
as Marshal Willoughby
1937
as Cliff Summers
1948
as Frank Yordy
1945
as Hacky Smith
1939
as The Sergeant
1944
as Squint
1935
as Bartly Mulholland
1940
as Charlie
1949
as Sandz Jepson
1941
as Sergeant Early
1939
as Billings
1941
as Sgt. Doolittle
1936
as Jackie
1962
as Riverboat Officer (uncredited)
1953
as Frank Daylon
1935
as Rich - Chief Henchman
1940
as Jim Gulden
1941
as John Cole
1943
as Karl Straeder
1956
as Bancroft Baines
1991
as Sgt. Biff O'Hara
1942
as Eddie Corbett
1942
as Sergeant Ames
1936
as Jim Plummer
1936
as Sgt. Regan
1935
as Doré's Henchman
1942
as Sgt. William Ames
1944
as Idaho Jones
1946
as Hutchins
1939
as Detective Grazzi
1936
as Father Reed, chaplain
1952
as R. A. 'Pop' Miller
1933
as Sergeant Hunt (uncredited)
1943
as Brannigan
1992
as Curley Bill in 'Frontier Marshall'
1939
as Curley Bill
1937
as Red Manders
1947
as Police Lt. Rocky Wall
1941
as Allen
1935
as Slugs Crippen (as Joseph Sawyer)
1949
as Tony
1948
as Det. Lt. Joe Nash
1940
as Bill Stevens
1942
as Eddie Corbett
1943
as Eddie Corbett
1947
as Monk
1948
as Officer Ames
1995
as Frank Daylon (archive footage) (uncredited)
1933
as Tex Roust
1938
as Bako
1936
as Inspector Tom Bacon
1950
as George Swallow
1934
as Gunner - Hood
1943
as Charlie Muscles
1935
as Luke Thomas
1940
as Burke
1950
as Jake
1942
as Sgt. Ames
1951
as Sgt. Ames
1952
as Sgt. Ames
1937
as Chips
1950
as Fuss Payne
1949
as Eli Cressett
1935
as Whitey, burly henchman
1938
as Buster Mussendorfer
1934
as Coach Eversmith
1952
as Sgt. Maj. Phineas T. Keogh
1934
as Carl Trask (uncredited)
1931
as Bennett the Monroe Coach (uncredited)
1934
as Mike (uncredited)
1948
as Steve Davis
1936
as Jack Sully
1948
as Zero Zantini
1937
as Swede Jannsen
1938
as Duke Selton
1934
as Max Stanley
1947
as Private Detective
1943
as Sgt. Ames
1937
as 'Brad' Martin
1936
as Bonelli's Henchman
1936
as Announcer
1948
as Police Sergeant Scudder
1934
as Mr. Thomas
1937
as Doyle - Gangster (uncredited)
1933
as Thresher
1935
as 'Red'
1941
as Bull Lossomer
1933
as Captain Daly
1938
as Olaf Punch
1940
as Jigger
1939
as Blinky Mack
1943
as Roughhouse
1943
as Albertson
1939
as Werner Renz
1939
as Shamus (uncredited)
1942
as Roy - John's Brother-in-Law
1944
as Joe
1945
as Spike Kenny
1950
as Cactus Jack
1938
as Red Crocker
1935
as Crawford
1936
as First Truck Driver
1936
as Joe, the Logger Lifting Log (uncredited)
1946
as Sgt. Frank Moraski
1933
as Slug
1948
as Hoy Keegan
1936
as Terry Madden
1936
as Joe Burton
1937
as Dutch
1949
as Tod Bryant
1941
as Sgt. William Ames
1949
as Sergeant McNulty
1949
as Police officer
1941
as Sheriff 'Noisy' Burkett, Henchman
1940
as Bushropp
1949
as Thatcher
1946
as Police Capt. Thomas
1938
as Tony Garzoni
1933
as Head Lifeguard (uncredited)
1932
as Slater
1935
as Henchman Keeler
1936
as Coach Kendall
1937
as 'Sailor Boy' Hansen
1940
as Davis
1941
as Hardy Ragan
1933
as Holcomb
1935
as Forest Ranger (uncredited)
1940
as Jasper Wildhack
1940
as Principal Keeper Grimley
1941
as Sergeant Madden
1954
as Carl Svenson
1936
as Police Sgt. Sanborn
1943
as Sgt. Wiggins
1939
as Gardner
1942
as Ben Moffitt
1941
as Dutch
1933
as Farmhand (uncredited)
1954
as Tom Biggert
1958
as Sgt. 'Biff' O'Hara
1960
as Land Commissioner
1934
as "Dunc" Spencer
1944
as Sergeant
1940
as Detective James
1933
as Coach
1938
as Kelly
1954
as Sgt. Hamma
1942
as Fred Bunce
1943
as Louie
1952
as Whitey Franks (uncredited)
1937
as Wolfe
1935
as Mannion's Thug (uncredited)
1931
as Pool Player (uncredited)
1932
as Leroux (uncredited)
1934
as Spud Miller
1946
as Lefty
1936
as Henchman (uncredited)
1936
as Tennessee
1944
as Ernest Hatcher
1943
as Lumpy
1939
1939
as Biff Anders (as Joseph Sawyer)
1935
as Chuck (as Joseph Sawyer)
1934
as Bob Lockhart
1934
as Building Guard (uncredited)
1933
as Policeman at Reformatory (uncredited)
1937
as Windy Wilcox
1950
as Producer
1950
as Writer
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