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

Film

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

Television

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