Joe Sawyer

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1906-08-29 (76 years old)

Deathday

1982-04-21

Place of Birth

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Joe Sawyer

Biography

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 ...

Acting

1956

The Killing

as Mike O'Reilly

1940

The Grapes of Wrath

as Bookkeeper

1940

Santa Fe Trail

as Kitzmiller

1946

Gilda

as Casey

1950

Blondie's Hero

as Sergeant Gateson

1943

The Outlaw

as Charley Woodruff

1936

The Walking Dead

as 'Trigger' Smith

1951

1943

Hit the Ice

as Buster

1946

Deadline at Dawn

as Babe Dooley

1947

A Double Life

as Pete Bonner

1934

Prescott Kid

as Marshal Willoughby

1937

Black Legion

as Cliff Summers

1948

Coroner Creek

as Frank Yordy

1945

Brewster's Millions

as Hacky Smith

1939

The Roaring Twenties

as The Sergeant

1944

1935

The Informer

as Bartly Mulholland

1949

Kazan

as Sandz Jepson

1941

Sergeant York

as Sergeant Early

1939

1941

1962

How the West Was Won

as Riverboat Officer (uncredited)

1953

1935

Special Agent

as Rich - Chief Henchman

1940

The Border Legion

as Jim Gulden

1941

Belle Starr

as John Cole

1943

Tarzan's Desert Mystery

as Karl Straeder

1956

The Kettles in the Ozarks

as Bancroft Baines

1991

1942

Brooklyn Orchid

as Eddie Corbett

1942

Hay Foot

as Sergeant Ames

1936

Special Investigator

as Jim Plummer

1935

Little Big Shot

as Doré's Henchman

1942

About Face

as Sgt. William Ames

1944

Raiders of Ghost City

as Idaho Jones

1946

The Runaround

as Hutchins

1939

Inside Information

as Detective Grazzi

1936

The Accusing Finger

as Father Reed, chaplain

1952

Red Skies of Montana

as R. A. 'Pop' Miller

1933

Eskimo

as Sergeant Hunt (uncredited)

1943

Buckskin Frontier

as Brannigan

1992

Legends of the West

as Curley Bill in 'Frontier Marshall'

1939

Frontier Marshal

as Curley Bill

1937

Behind the Criminal

as Red Manders

1947

Roses Are Red

as Police Lt. Rocky Wall

1941

1935

Frisco Kid

as Slugs Crippen (as Joseph Sawyer)

1949

1948

Half Past Midnight

as Det. Lt. Joe Nash

1940

Lucky Cisco Kid

as Bill Stevens

1942

1943

Taxi, Mister

as Eddie Corbett

1948

Here Comes Trouble

as Officer Ames

1995

Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey

as Frank Daylon (archive footage) (uncredited)

1933

College Humor

as Tex Roust

1938

1936

Murder with Pictures

as Inspector Tom Bacon

1950

Operation Haylift

as George Swallow

1934

Sing and Like It

as Gunner - Hood

1943

Tornado

as Charlie Muscles

1935

1940

Wildcat Bus

as Burke

1942

Fall In

as Sgt. Ames

1951

As You Were

as Sgt. Ames

1952

Mr. Walkie Talkie

as Sgt. Ames

1937

Navy Blues

as Chips

1950

The Flying Missile

as Fuss Payne

1949

Deputy Marshal

as Eli Cressett

1935

Car 99

as Whitey, burly henchman

1938

Always in Trouble

as Buster Mussendorfer

1934

Gridiron Flash

as Coach Eversmith

1952

Indian Uprising

as Sgt. Maj. Phineas T. Keogh

1934

The Case of the Howling Dog

as Carl Trask (uncredited)

1931

Maker of Men

as Bennett the Monroe Coach (uncredited)

1934

Jimmy the Gent

as Mike (uncredited)

1948

Fighting Father Dunne

as Steve Davis

1936

Big Brown Eyes

as Jack Sully

1948

If You Knew Susie

as Zero Zantini

1937

The Lady Fights Back

as Swede Jannsen

1938

Passport Husband

as Duke Selton

1934

Looking for Trouble

as Max Stanley

1947

Christmas Eve

as Private Detective

1943

Yanks Ahoy

as Sgt. Ames

1937

Reported Missing

as 'Brad' Martin

1936

Two in a Crowd

as Bonelli's Henchman

1936

Rose Bowl

as Announcer

1948

Fighting Back

as Police Sergeant Scudder

1934

The Band Plays On

as Mr. Thomas

1937

They Gave Him a Gun

as Doyle - Gangster (uncredited)

1933

1935

1941

Last of the Duanes

as Bull Lossomer

1933

Ace of Aces

as Captain Daly

1938

Tarzan's Revenge

as Olaf Punch

1939

The Lady and the Mob

as Blinky Mack

1943

Alaska Highway

as Roughhouse

1943

Prairie Chickens

as Albertson

1939

1939

Union Pacific

as Shamus (uncredited)

1942

A Letter From Bataan

as Roy - John's Brother-in-Law

1945

High Powered

as Spike Kenny

1950

1938

Heart of the North

as Red Crocker

1935

Man of Iron

as Crawford

1936

A Son Comes Home

as First Truck Driver

1936

The Country Doctor

as Joe, the Logger Lifting Log (uncredited)

1946

G.I. War Brides

as Sgt. Frank Moraski

1933

1948

The Untamed Breed

as Hoy Keegan

1936

High Tension

as Terry Madden

1936

Great Guy

as Joe Burton

1949

Tucson

as Tod Bryant

1941

Tanks a Million

as Sgt. William Ames

1949

The Gay Amigo

as Sergeant McNulty

1949

And Baby Makes Three

as Police officer

1941

The Lady from Cheyenne

as Sheriff 'Noisy' Burkett, Henchman

1940

Dark Command

as Bushropp

1949

Stagecoach Kid

as Thatcher

1946

Inside Job

as Police Capt. Thomas

1938

Gambling Ship

as Tony Garzoni

1933

Three Cornered Moon

as Head Lifeguard (uncredited)

1932

Huddle

as Slater

1935

The Arizonian

as Henchman Keeler

1936

Freshman Love

as Coach Kendall

1937

San Quentin

as 'Sailor Boy' Hansen

1941

Swamp Water

as Hardy Ragan

1933

College Coach

as Holcomb

1935

Sequoia

as Forest Ranger (uncredited)

1940

Melody Ranch

as Jasper Wildhack

1940

Women Without Names

as Principal Keeper Grimley

1941

You're in the Army Now

as Sergeant Madden

1954

Johnny Dark

as Carl Svenson

1936

And Sudden Death

as Police Sgt. Sanborn

1943

Let's Face It

as Sgt. Wiggins

1939

Sabotage

as Gardner

1942

Sundown Jim

as Ben Moffitt

1941

1933

Golden Harvest

as Farmhand (uncredited)

1954

Riding Shotgun

as Tom Biggert

1958

The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin

as Sgt. 'Biff' O'Hara

1960

North to Alaska

as Land Commissioner

1934

Death on the Diamond

as "Dunc" Spencer

1944

Hey, Rookie

as Sergeant

1940

Honeymoon Deferred

as Detective James

1938

The Storm

as Kelly

1954

1942

Wrecking Crew

as Fred Bunce

1952

Deadline - U.S.A.

as Whitey Franks (uncredited)

1937

1935

The Whole Town's Talking

as Mannion's Thug (uncredited)

1931

The Public Enemy

as Pool Player (uncredited)

1932

Arsène Lupin

as Leroux (uncredited)

1934

College Rhythm

as Spud Miller

1946

1936

Crash Donovan

as Henchman (uncredited)

1936

1944

South of Dixie

as Ernest Hatcher

1943

1939

The Man from Montreal

as Biff Anders (as Joseph Sawyer)

1935

I Found Stella Parish

as Chuck (as Joseph Sawyer)

1934

The Westerner

as Bob Lockhart

1934

The Notorious Sophie Lang

as Building Guard (uncredited)

1933

Hold Your Man

as Policeman at Reformatory (uncredited)

1937

Slim

as Windy Wilcox

Production

1950

1950

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