Joe 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 Allen, with Doris Singleton and Michael Ansara as fellow guest stars. Sawyer also appeared on ABC's, Maverick, Sugarfoot, Peter Gunn, and Surfside 6 as well as NBC's Bat Masterson. Sawyer died April 21, 1982, in Ashland, Oregon from liver cancer. He was 75. His interment was in Oregon.
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- Born:
- Aug 29, 1906 In Guelph, Ontario, Canada
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 159
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Maker of Men 1931-08-03
- Latest Project:
- Movie How the West Was Won 1962-11-02
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | How the West Was Won | Riverboat Officer (uncredited) | 1962-11-02 |
| Series | Everglades | Unknown | 1961-10-09 |
| Movie | North to Alaska | Land Commissioner | 1960-11-07 |
| Movie | The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin | Sgt. 'Biff' O'Hara | 1958-08-01 |
| Movie | The Killing | Mike O'Reilly | 1956-06-06 |
| Movie | The Kettles in the Ozarks | Bancroft Baines | 1956-04-01 |
| Movie | Riding Shotgun | Tom Biggert | 1954-04-01 |
| Movie | Taza, Son of Cochise | Sgt. Hamma | 1954-02-18 |
| Movie | Johnny Dark | Carl Svenson | 1954-06-25 |
| Movie | It Came from Outer Space | Frank Daylon | 1953-06-05 |
| Movie | Indian Uprising | Sgt. Maj. Phineas T. Keogh | 1952-01-02 |
| Movie | Red Skies of Montana | R. A. 'Pop' Miller | 1952-01-23 |
| Movie | Mr. Walkie Talkie | Sgt. Ames | 1952-11-28 |
| Movie | Deadline - U.S.A. | Whitey Franks (uncredited) | 1952-03-14 |
| Series | Racket Squad | Unknown | 1951-06-07 |
| Movie | As You Were | Sgt. Ames | 1951-10-05 |
| Movie | Comin' Round the Mountain | Kalem McCoy | 1951-07-26 |
| Movie | The Traveling Saleswoman | Cactus Jack | 1950-02-15 |
| Movie | Operation Haylift | George Swallow | 1950-05-05 |
| Movie | The Flying Missile | Fuss Payne | 1950-12-24 |
| Movie | Curtain Call at Cactus Creek | Jake | 1950-05-25 |
| Movie | Tucson | Tod Bryant | 1949-04-27 |
| Movie | The Gay Amigo | Sergeant McNulty | 1949-05-13 |
| Movie | The Lucky Stiff | Tony | 1949-05-26 |
| Movie | And Baby Makes Three | Police officer | 1949-12-02 |
| Movie | Deputy Marshal | Eli Cressett | 1949-10-28 |
| Movie | Stagecoach Kid | Thatcher | 1949-06-02 |
| Movie | Half Past Midnight | Det. Lt. Joe Nash | 1948-03-01 |
| Movie | If You Knew Susie | Zero Zantini | 1948-02-07 |
| Movie | Here Comes Trouble | Officer Ames | 1948-03-15 |
| Movie | Coroner Creek | Frank Yordy | 1948-07-01 |
| Movie | Fighting Father Dunne | Steve Davis | 1948-05-12 |
| Movie | Fighting Back | Police Sergeant Scudder | 1948-07-30 |
| Movie | The Untamed Breed | Hoy Keegan | 1948-10-20 |
| Movie | Christmas Eve | Private Detective | 1947-10-31 |
| Movie | Roses Are Red | Police Lt. Rocky Wall | 1947-11-10 |
| Movie | Big Town After Dark | Monk | 1947-12-12 |
| Movie | A Double Life | Pete Bonner | 1947-12-25 |
| Movie | Deadline at Dawn | Babe Dooley | 1946-03-18 |
| Movie | Gilda | Casey | 1946-04-25 |
| Movie | The Runaround | Hutchins | 1946-06-04 |
| Movie | Inside Job | Police Capt. Thomas | 1946-06-14 |
| Movie | High Powered | Spike Kenny | 1945-02-27 |
| Movie | Brewster's Millions | Hacky Smith | 1945-04-07 |
| Movie | The Naughty Nineties | Bailey | 1945-06-20 |
| Movie | Moon Over Las Vegas | Joe | 1944-04-01 |
| Movie | Raiders of Ghost City | Idaho Jones | 1944-07-25 |
| Movie | The Singing Sheriff | Squint | 1944-09-01 |
| Movie | Prairie Chickens | Albertson | 1943-05-21 |
| Movie | Buckskin Frontier | Brannigan | 1943-05-14 |
| Movie | The Outlaw | Charley Woodruff | 1943-02-05 |
| Movie | Hit the Ice | Buster | 1943-06-02 |
| Movie | Taxi, Mister | Eddie Corbett | 1943-04-16 |
| Movie | Let's Face It | Sgt. Wiggins | 1943-08-04 |
| Movie | Tarzan's Desert Mystery | Karl Straeder | 1943-12-26 |
| Movie | Alaska Highway | Roughhouse | 1943-06-24 |
| Movie | Tornado | Charlie Muscles | 1943-08-09 |
| Movie | Yanks Ahoy | Sgt. Ames | 1943-06-29 |
| Movie | Brooklyn Orchid | Eddie Corbett | 1942-01-31 |
| Movie | Hay Foot | Sergeant Ames | 1942-01-02 |
| Movie | Sundown Jim | Ben Moffitt | 1942-03-27 |
| Movie | Wrecking Crew | Fred Bunce | 1942-11-07 |
| Movie | About Face | Sgt. William Ames | 1942-04-16 |
| Movie | Fall In | Sgt. Ames | 1942-11-20 |
| Movie | The McGuerins from Brooklyn | Eddie Corbett | 1942-12-31 |
| Movie | Tanks a Million | Sgt. William Ames | 1941-09-12 |
| Movie | The Lady from Cheyenne | Sheriff 'Noisy' Burkett, Henchman | 1941-04-11 |
| Movie | Sergeant York | Sergeant Early | 1941-09-27 |
| Movie | Down in San Diego | Dutch | 1941-08-01 |
| Movie | Belle Starr | John Cole | 1941-09-12 |
| Movie | Down Mexico Way | Allen | 1941-10-15 |
| Movie | They Died with Their Boots On | Sgt. Doolittle | 1941-11-20 |
| Movie | You're in the Army Now | Sergeant Madden | 1941-12-25 |
| Movie | Swamp Water | Hardy Ragan | 1941-11-16 |
| Movie | King of the Lumberjacks | Jigger | 1940-04-13 |
| Movie | Dark Command | Bushropp | 1940-04-15 |
| Movie | The Grapes of Wrath | Bookkeeper | 1940-03-15 |
| Movie | Honeymoon Deferred | Detective James | 1940-02-16 |
| Movie | The House Across the Bay | Charlie | 1940-03-01 |
| Movie | Women Without Names | Principal Keeper Grimley | 1940-03-14 |
| Movie | Lucky Cisco Kid | Bill Stevens | 1940-06-28 |
| Movie | Wildcat Bus | Burke | 1940-08-23 |
| Movie | The Border Legion | Jim Gulden | 1940-12-05 |
| Movie | Santa Fe Trail | Kitzmiller | 1940-12-20 |
| Movie | The Long Voyage Home | Davis | 1940-11-16 |
| Movie | Melody Ranch | Jasper Wildhack | 1940-09-15 |
| Movie | Confessions of a Nazi Spy | Werner Renz | 1939-05-06 |
| Movie | Union Pacific | Shamus (uncredited) | 1939-05-05 |
| Movie | You Can't Get Away with Murder | Red | 1939-03-23 |
| Movie | Frontier Marshal | Curley Bill | 1939-07-28 |
| Movie | The Lady and the Mob | Blinky Mack | 1939-04-03 |
| Movie | Rio | Prison Guard (uncredited) | 1939-09-29 |
| Movie | The Man from Montreal | Biff Anders (as Joseph Sawyer) | 1939-12-09 |
| Movie | I Stole a Million | Billings | 1939-08-01 |
| Movie | The Roaring Twenties | The Sergeant | 1939-10-28 |
| Movie | Sabotage | Gardner | 1939-10-13 |
| Movie | Stolen Heaven | Bako | 1938-05-11 |
| Movie | Passport Husband | Duke Selton | 1938-07-15 |
| Movie | Tarzan's Revenge | Olaf Punch | 1938-01-07 |
| Movie | Always in Trouble | Buster Mussendorfer | 1938-10-28 |
| Movie | Heart of the North | Red Crocker | 1938-12-10 |
| Movie | Gambling Ship | Tony Garzoni | 1938-12-16 |
| Movie | San Quentin | 'Sailor Boy' Hansen | 1937-05-24 |
| Movie | Navy Blues | Chips | 1937-03-29 |
| Movie | Black Legion | Cliff Summers | 1937-01-30 |
| Movie | Midnight Madonna | Wolfe | 1937-07-01 |
| Movie | They Gave Him a Gun | Doyle - Gangster (uncredited) | 1937-05-07 |
| Movie | A Dangerous Adventure | Dutch | 1937-07-21 |
| Movie | The Lady Fights Back | Swede Jannsen | 1937-10-01 |
| Movie | Reported Missing | 'Brad' Martin | 1937-08-15 |
| Movie | Behind the Criminal | Red Manders | 1937-10-30 |
| Movie | The Country Doctor | Joe, the Logger Lifting Log (uncredited) | 1936-03-12 |
| Movie | The Walking Dead | 'Trigger' Smith | 1936-03-01 |
| Movie | Freshman Love | Coach Kendall | 1936-01-18 |
| Movie | Special Investigator | Jim Plummer | 1936-05-08 |
| Movie | The Petrified Forest | Jackie | 1936-02-08 |
| Movie | The Leathernecks Have Landed | Sgt. Regan | 1936-02-17 |
| Movie | Big Brown Eyes | Jack Sully | 1936-04-03 |
| Movie | Rose Bowl | Announcer | 1936-11-30 |
| Movie | And Sudden Death | Police Sgt. Sanborn | 1936-06-16 |
| Movie | The Accusing Finger | Father Reed, chaplain | 1936-11-17 |
| Movie | Great Guy | Joe Burton | 1936-12-01 |
| Movie | High Tension | Terry Madden | 1936-07-10 |
| Movie | Murder with Pictures | Inspector Tom Bacon | 1936-09-24 |
| Movie | Two in a Crowd | Bonelli's Henchman | 1936-10-03 |
| Movie | The Informer | Bartly Mulholland | 1935-05-09 |
| Movie | The Arizonian | Henchman Keeler | 1935-06-27 |
| Movie | Car 99 | Whitey, burly henchman | 1935-03-02 |
| Movie | Sequoia | Forest Ranger (uncredited) | 1935-01-16 |
| Movie | Broadway Gondolier | 'Red' | 1935-07-27 |
| Movie | The Whole Town's Talking | Mannion's Thug (uncredited) | 1935-02-22 |
| Movie | Special Agent | Rich - Chief Henchman | 1935-09-14 |
| Movie | Little Big Shot | Doré's Henchman | 1935-09-07 |
| Movie | Man of Iron | Crawford | 1935-12-21 |
| Movie | I Found Stella Parish | Chuck (as Joseph Sawyer) | 1935-11-16 |
| Movie | Frisco Kid | Slugs Crippen (as Joseph Sawyer) | 1935-11-30 |
| Movie | Moonlight on the Prairie | Luke Thomas | 1935-11-02 |
| Movie | Sing and Like it | Gunner - Hood | 1934-04-20 |
| Movie | Looking for Trouble | Max Stanley | 1934-03-28 |
| Movie | Death on the Diamond | "Dunc" Spencer | 1934-09-14 |
| Movie | Jimmy the Gent | Mike (uncredited) | 1934-03-09 |
| Movie | College Rhythm | Spud Miller | 1934-11-23 |
| Movie | The Case of the Howling Dog | Carl Trask (uncredited) | 1934-09-22 |
| Movie | The Bands Plays On | Mr. Thomas | 1934-12-21 |
| Movie | Prescott Kid | Marshal Willoughby | 1934-11-08 |
| Movie | Gridiron Flash | Coach Eversmith | 1934-10-06 |
| Movie | Three-Cornered Moon | Head Lifeguard | 1933-08-08 |
| Movie | The Stranger's Return | Thresher | 1933-07-28 |
| Movie | Hold Your Man | Policeman at Reformatory (uncredited) | 1933-06-30 |
| Movie | Golden Harvest | Farmhand (uncredited) | 1933-09-21 |
| Movie | College Humor | Tex Roust | 1933-07-05 |
| Movie | Saturday's Millions | Coach | 1933-09-30 |
| Movie | Ace of Aces | Captain Daly | 1933-10-20 |
| Movie | Eskimo | Sergeant Hunt (uncredited) | 1933-11-14 |
| Movie | Son of a Sailor | Slug | 1933-11-29 |
| Movie | College Coach | Holcomb | 1933-11-04 |
| Movie | Arsène Lupin | Leroux (uncredited) | 1932-02-26 |
| Movie | Huddle | Slater | 1932-05-14 |
| Movie | Maker of Men | Bennett the Monroe Coach (uncredited) | 1931-08-03 |