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Joe Sawyer

Joe Sawyer

Actor · Born 1906-08-29 · Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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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 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.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Killing (1956) — Mike O'Reilly
  2. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) — Bookkeeper
  3. Gilda (1946) — Casey
  4. How the West Was Won (1962) — Riverboat Officer (uncredited)
  5. The Public Enemy (1931) — Pool Player (uncredited)
  6. The Roaring Twenties (1939) — The Sergeant
  7. It Came from Outer Space (1953) — Frank Daylon
  8. Sergeant York (1941) — Sergeant Early
  9. The Petrified Forest (1936) — Jackie
  10. North to Alaska (1960) — Land Commissioner
  11. The Informer (1935) — Bartly Mulholland
  12. They Died with Their Boots On (1941) — Sgt. Doolittle
  13. The Outlaw (1943) — Charley Woodruff
  14. The Long Voyage Home (1940) — Davis
  15. The Walking Dead (1936) — 'Trigger' Smith
  16. A Double Life (1947) — Pete Bonner
  17. Union Pacific (1939) — Shamus (uncredited)
  18. Deadline - U.S.A. (1952) — Whitey Franks (uncredited)
  19. Santa Fe Trail (1940) — Kitzmiller
  20. Dark Command (1940) — Bushropp
  21. The Whole Town's Talking (1935) — Mannion's Thug (uncredited)
  22. Black Legion (1937) — Cliff Summers
  23. Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943) — Karl Straeder
  24. Swamp Water (1941) — Hardy Ragan
  25. The Stranger's Return (1933) — Thresher
  26. Deadline at Dawn (1946) — Babe Dooley
  27. Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) — Werner Renz
  28. The Naughty Nineties (1945) — Bailey
  29. Jimmy the Gent (1934) — Mike (uncredited)
  30. San Quentin (1937) — 'Sailor Boy' Hansen
  31. Hit the Ice (1943) — Buster
  32. Coroner Creek (1948) — Frank Yordy
  33. Riding Shotgun (1954) — Tom Biggert
  34. Frontier Marshal (1939) — Curley Bill
  35. Brewster's Millions (1945) — Hacky Smith
  36. Taza, Son of Cochise (1954) — Sgt. Hamma
  37. Big Brown Eyes (1936) — Jack Sully
  38. Comin' Round the Mountain (1951) — Kalem McCoy
  39. You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939) — Red
  40. Peter Gunn (1958)