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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 1906-08-29

Died: 1982-04-21

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1930	Campus Sweethearts		0
2	1931	The Public Enemy	Pool Player (uncredited)	72
3	1931	Maker of Men	Bennett the Monroe Coach (uncredited)	0
4	1932	Arsène Lupin	Leroux (uncredited)	69
5	1932	Huddle	Slater	66
6	1933	Hold Your Man	Policeman at Reformatory (uncredited)	61
7	1933	College Humor	Tex Roust	56
8	1933	The Stranger's Return	Thresher	62
9	1933	Three Cornered Moon	Head Lifeguard (uncredited)	57
10	1933	Golden Harvest	Farmhand (uncredited)	50
11	1933	Saturday's Millions	Coach	50
12	1933	Ace of Aces	Captain Daly	56
13	1933	College Coach	Holcomb	42
14	1933	Eskimo	Sergeant Hunt (uncredited)	65
15	1933	Son of a Sailor	Slug	50
16	1934	Jimmy the Gent	Mike (uncredited)	63
17	1934	Looking for Trouble	Max Stanley	62
18	1934	Sing and Like It	Gunner - Hood	40
19	1934	The Notorious Sophie Lang	Building Guard (uncredited)	60
20	1934	Death on the Diamond	"Dunc" Spencer	70
21	1934	The Case of the Howling Dog	Carl Trask (uncredited)	65
22	1934	Gridiron Flash	Coach Eversmith	33
23	1934	Prescott Kid	Marshal Willoughby	0
24	1934	College Rhythm	Spud Miller	47
25	1934	The Westerner	Bob Lockhart	0
26	1934	The Band Plays On	Mr. Thomas	85
27	1935	Sequoia	Forest Ranger (uncredited)	60
28	1935	The Whole Town's Talking	Mannion's Thug (uncredited)	68
29	1935	Car 99	Whitey, burly henchman	50
30	1935	The Informer	Bartly Mulholland	67
31	1935	The Arizonian	Henchman Keeler	0
32	1935	Broadway Gondolier	'Red'	54
33	1935	Little Big Shot	Doré's Henchman	60
34	1935	Special Agent	Rich - Chief Henchman	62
35	1935	Moonlight on the Prairie	Luke Thomas	55
36	1935	I Found Stella Parish	Chuck (as Joseph Sawyer)	70
37	1935	Frisco Kid	Slugs Crippen (as Joseph Sawyer)	68
38	1935	Man of Iron	Crawford	60
39	1936	Freshman Love	Coach Kendall	60
40	1936	The Petrified Forest	Jackie	71
41	1936	The Leathernecks Have Landed	Sgt. Regan	50
42	1936	The Walking Dead	'Trigger' Smith	62
43	1936	The Country Doctor	Joe, the Logger Lifting Log (uncredited)	60
44	1936	Pride of the Marines	Tennessee	60
45	1936	Big Brown Eyes	Jack Sully	63
46	1936	Special Investigator	Jim Plummer	58
47	1936	And Sudden Death	Police Sgt. Sanborn	0
48	1936	High Tension	Terry Madden	54
49	1936	A Son Comes Home	First Truck Driver	10
50	1936	Crash Donovan	Henchman (uncredited)	0
51	1936	Murder with Pictures	Inspector Tom Bacon	51
52	1936	Two in a Crowd	Bonelli's Henchman	0
53	1936	The Accusing Finger	Father Reed, chaplain	47
54	1936	Rose Bowl	Announcer	60
55	1936	Great Guy	Joe Burton	62
56	1937	Black Legion	Cliff Summers	66
57	1937	Navy Blues	Chips	50
58	1937	They Gave Him a Gun	Doyle - Gangster (uncredited)	62
59	1937	San Quentin	'Sailor Boy' Hansen	65
60	1937	Slim	Windy Wilcox	63
61	1937	Midnight Madonna	Wolfe	0
62	1937	A Dangerous Adventure	Dutch	10
63	1937	Reported Missing	'Brad' Martin	0
64	1937	The Lady Fights Back	Swede Jannsen	60
65	1937	Behind the Criminal	Red Manders	57
66	1938	Tarzan's Revenge	Olaf Punch	44
67	1938	Stolen Heaven	Bako	0
68	1938	Passport Husband	Duke Selton	60
69	1938	Always in Trouble	Buster Mussendorfer	60
70	1938	The Storm	Kelly	0
71	1938	Heart of the North	Red Crocker	37
72	1938	Gambling Ship	Tony Garzoni	0
73	1939	You Can't Get Away with Murder	Red	56
74	1939	The Lady and the Mob	Blinky Mack	63
75	1939	Union Pacific	Shamus (uncredited)	65
76	1939	Confessions of a Nazi Spy	Werner Renz	61
77	1939	Inside Information	Detective Grazzi	0
78	1939	Frontier Marshal	Curley Bill	61
79	1939	I Stole a Million	Billings	60
80	1939	Sabotage	Gardner	70
81	1939	The Roaring Twenties	The Sergeant	75
82	1939	The Man from Montreal	Biff Anders (as Joseph Sawyer)	38
83	1940	Honeymoon Deferred	Detective James	60
84	1940	The House Across the Bay	Charlie	53
85	1940	Women Without Names	Principal Keeper Grimley	48
86	1940	The Grapes of Wrath	Bookkeeper	78
87	1940	King of the Lumberjacks	Jigger	30
88	1940	Dark Command	Bushropp	63
89	1940	Lucky Cisco Kid	Bill Stevens	56
90	1940	Wildcat Bus	Burke	46
91	1940	Melody Ranch	Jasper Wildhack	58
92	1940	The Long Voyage Home	Davis	66
93	1940	The Border Legion	Jim Gulden	44
94	1940	Santa Fe Trail	Kitzmiller	57
95	1941	The Lady from Cheyenne	Sheriff 'Noisy' Burkett, Henchman	52
96	1941	Down in San Diego	Dutch	55
97	1941	Belle Starr	John Cole	56
98	1941	Tanks a Million	Sgt. William Ames	53
99	1941	Last of the Duanes	Bull Lossomer	60
100	1941	Sergeant York	Sergeant Early	72
101	1941	Down Mexico Way	Allen	0
102	1941	Swamp Water	Hardy Ragan	63
103	1941	They Died with Their Boots On	Sgt. Doolittle	66
104	1941	You're in the Army Now	Sergeant Madden	40
105	1942	Hay Foot	Sergeant Ames	60
106	1942	Brooklyn Orchid	Eddie Corbett	60
107	1942	Sundown Jim	Ben Moffitt	0
108	1942	About Face	Sgt. William Ames	60
109	1942	A Letter From Bataan	Roy - John's Brother-in-Law	45
110	1942	Wrecking Crew	Fred Bunce	55
111	1942	Fall In	Sgt. Ames	60
112	1942	The McGuerins from Brooklyn	Eddie Corbett	55
113	1943	The Outlaw	Charley Woodruff	54
114	1943	Taxi, Mister	Eddie Corbett	42
115	1943	Buckskin Frontier	Brannigan	60
116	1943	Prairie Chickens	Albertson	0
117	1943	Cowboy in Manhattan	Louie	0
118	1943	Hit the Ice	Buster	59
119	1943	Alaska Highway	Roughhouse	50
120	1943	Yanks Ahoy	Sgt. Ames	63
121	1943	Let's Face It	Sgt. Wiggins	45
122	1943	Tornado	Charlie Muscles	55
123	1943	Sleepy Lagoon	Lumpy	45
124	1943	Tarzan's Desert Mystery	Karl Straeder	61
125	1944	Moon Over Las Vegas	Joe	0
126	1944	Hey, Rookie	Sergeant	0
127	1944	South of Dixie	Ernest Hatcher	0
128	1944	Raiders of Ghost City	Idaho Jones	60
129	1944	The Singing Sheriff	Squint	80
130	1945	High Powered	Spike Kenny	0
131	1945	Brewster's Millions	Hacky Smith	66
132	1945	The Naughty Nineties	Bailey	68
133	1946	Deadline at Dawn	Babe Dooley	63
134	1946	Gilda	Casey	75
135	1946	Joe Palooka, Champ	Lefty	0
136	1946	The Runaround	Hutchins	0
137	1946	Inside Job	Police Capt. Thomas	56
138	1946	G.I. War Brides	Sgt. Frank Moraski	0
139	1947	Christmas Eve	Private Detective	53
140	1947	Roses Are Red	Police Lt. Rocky Wall	55
141	1947	Big Town After Dark	Monk	49
142	1947	A Double Life	Pete Bonner	63
143	1948	If You Knew Susie	Zero Zantini	75
144	1948	Half Past Midnight	Det. Lt. Joe Nash	60
145	1948	Here Comes Trouble	Officer Ames	46
146	1948	Fighting Father Dunne	Steve Davis	60
147	1948	Coroner Creek	Frank Yordy	61
148	1948	Fighting Back	Police Sergeant Scudder	60
149	1948	The Untamed Breed	Hoy Keegan	50
150	1949	Tucson	Tod Bryant	60
151	1949	The Gay Amigo	Sergeant McNulty	65
152	1949	The Lucky Stiff	Tony	48
153	1949	Stagecoach Kid	Thatcher	60
154	1949	Kazan	Sandz Jepson	0
155	1949	Deputy Marshal	Eli Cressett	56
156	1949	And Baby Makes Three	Police officer	49
157	1950	The Traveling Saleswoman	Cactus Jack	45
158	1950	Blondie's Hero	Sergeant Gateson	63
159	1950	Operation Haylift	George Swallow	30
160	1950	Curtain Call at Cactus Creek	Jake	63
161	1950	The Flying Missile	Fuss Payne	49
162	1951	Comin' Round the Mountain	Kalem McCoy	60
163	1951	As You Were	Sgt. Ames	50
164	1952	Indian Uprising	Sgt. Maj. Phineas T. Keogh	62
165	1952	Red Skies of Montana	R. A. 'Pop' Miller	52
166	1952	Deadline - U.S.A.	Whitey Franks (uncredited)	68
167	1952	Mr. Walkie Talkie	Sgt. Ames	50
168	1953	It Came from Outer Space	Frank Daylon	63
169	1954	Taza, Son of Cochise	Sgt. Hamma	55
170	1954	Riding Shotgun	Tom Biggert	60
171	1954	Johnny Dark	Carl Svenson	50
172	1956	The Kettles in the Ozarks	Bancroft Baines	64
173	1956	The Killing	Mike O'Reilly	77
174	1958	The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin	Sgt. 'Biff' O'Hara	100
175	1960	North to Alaska	Land Commissioner	65
176	1962	How the West Was Won	Riverboat Officer (uncredited)	70
177	1991	Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West	Sgt. Biff O'Hara	73
178	1992	Legends of the West	Curley Bill in 'Frontier Marshall'	0
179	1995	Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey	Frank Daylon (archive footage) (uncredited)	54

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Ford Theatre		0
2	1951	Racket Squad		60
3	1952	The Abbott and Costello Show	Chopper	71
4	1954	The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin		69
5	1957	Sugarfoot	Fighting Sam Brown	48
6	1958	Peter Gunn		65
7	1959	Lock-Up	Sgt. McEvoy	62
8	1960	Surfside 6	Leon Huff	50
9	1960	Harrigan and Son		0
10	1961	Everglades		85

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