Joe Sawyer
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 29, 1906, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
- Died
- April 21, 1982
- Movies
- 183
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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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1995 | Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey | Frank Daylon (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1992 | Legends of the West | Curley Bill in 'Frontier Marshall' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1991 | Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West | Sgt. Biff O'Hara |
| 1962 | How the West Was Won | Riverboat Officer (uncredited) |
| 1960 | North to Alaska | Land Commissioner |
| 1958 | The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin | Sgt. 'Biff' O'Hara |
| 1956 | The Killing | Mike O'Reilly |
| 1956 | The Kettles in the Ozarks | Bancroft Baines |
| 1954 | Johnny Dark | Carl Svenson |
| 1954 | Riding Shotgun | Tom Biggert |
| 1954 | Taza, Son of Cochise | Sgt. Hamma |
| 1953 | It Came from Outer Space | Frank Daylon |
| 1952 | Mr. Walkie Talkie | Sgt. Ames |
| 1952 | Deadline - U.S.A. | Whitey Franks (uncredited) |
| 1952 | Red Skies of Montana | R. A. 'Pop' Miller |
| 1952 | Indian Uprising | Sgt. Maj. Phineas T. Keogh |
| 1951 | As You Were | Sgt. Ames |
| 1951 | Comin' Round the Mountain | Kalem McCoy |
| 1951 | Pride of Maryland | Knuckles |
| 1950 | The Flying Missile | Fuss Payne |
| 1950 | Curtain Call at Cactus Creek | Jake |
| 1950 | Operation Haylift | George Swallow |
| 1950 | Blondie's Hero | Sergeant Gateson |
| 1950 | The Traveling Saleswoman | Cactus Jack |
| 1949 | And Baby Makes Three | Police officer |
| 1949 | Deputy Marshal | Eli Cressett |
| 1949 | Kazan | Sandz Jepson |
| 1949 | Stagecoach Kid | Thatcher |
| 1949 | The Lucky Stiff | Tony |
| 1949 | The Gay Amigo | Sergeant McNulty |
| 1949 | Tucson | Tod Bryant |
| 1948 | The Untamed Breed | Hoy Keegan |
| 1948 | Fighting Back | Police Sergeant Scudder |
| 1948 | Coroner Creek | Frank Yordy |
| 1948 | Fighting Father Dunne | Steve Davis |
| 1948 | Here Comes Trouble | Officer Ames |
| 1948 | Half Past Midnight | Det. Lt. Joe Nash |
| 1948 | If You Knew Susie | Zero Zantini |
| 1947 | A Double Life | Pete Bonner |
| 1947 | Big Town After Dark | Monk |
| 1947 | Roses Are Red | Police Lt. Rocky Wall |
| 1947 | Christmas Eve | Private Detective |
| 1946 | G.I. War Brides | Sgt. Frank Moraski |
| 1946 | Inside Job | Police Capt. Thomas |
| 1946 | The Runaround | Hutchins |
| 1946 | Joe Palooka, Champ | Lefty |
| 1946 | Gilda | Casey |
| 1946 | Deadline at Dawn | Babe Dooley |
| 1945 | The Naughty Nineties | Bailey |
| 1945 | Brewster's Millions | Hacky Smith |
| 1945 | High Powered | Spike Kenny |
| 1944 | The Singing Sheriff | Squint |
| 1944 | Raiders of Ghost City | Idaho Jones |
| 1944 | South of Dixie | Ernest Hatcher |
| 1944 | Hey, Rookie | Sergeant |
| 1944 | Moon Over Las Vegas | Joe |
| 1943 | Tarzan's Desert Mystery | Karl Straeder |
| 1943 | Sleepy Lagoon | Lumpy |
| 1943 | Tornado | Charlie Muscles |
| 1943 | Let's Face It | Sgt. Wiggins |
| 1943 | Yanks Ahoy | Sgt. Ames |
| 1943 | Alaska Highway | Roughhouse |
| 1943 | Hit the Ice | Buster |
| 1943 | Prairie Chickens | Albertson |
| 1943 | Cowboy in Manhattan | Louie |
| 1943 | Buckskin Frontier | Brannigan |
| 1943 | Taxi, Mister | Eddie Corbett |
| 1943 | The Outlaw | Charley Woodruff |
| 1942 | The McGuerins from Brooklyn | Eddie Corbett |
| 1942 | Fall In | Sgt. Ames |
| 1942 | Wrecking Crew | Fred Bunce |
| 1942 | A Letter From Bataan | Roy - John's Brother-in-Law |
| 1942 | About Face | Sgt. William Ames |
| 1942 | Sundown Jim | Ben Moffitt |
| 1942 | Brooklyn Orchid | Eddie Corbett |
| 1942 | Hay Foot | Sergeant Ames |
| 1941 | You're in the Army Now | Sergeant Madden |
| 1941 | They Died with Their Boots On | Sgt. Doolittle |
| 1941 | Swamp Water | Hardy Ragan |
| 1941 | Down Mexico Way | Allen |
| 1941 | Sergeant York | Sergeant Early |
| 1941 | Last of the Duanes | Bull Lossomer |
| 1941 | Belle Starr | John Cole |
| 1941 | Tanks a Million | Sgt. William Ames |
| 1941 | Down in San Diego | Dutch |
| 1941 | The Lady from Cheyenne | Sheriff 'Noisy' Burkett, Henchman |
| 1940 | Santa Fe Trail | Kitzmiller |
| 1940 | The Border Legion | Jim Gulden |
| 1940 | The Long Voyage Home | Davis |
| 1940 | Melody Ranch | Jasper Wildhack |
| 1940 | Wildcat Bus | Burke |
| 1940 | Lucky Cisco Kid | Bill Stevens |
| 1940 | Dark Command | Bushropp |
| 1940 | King of the Lumberjacks | Jigger |
| 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath | Bookkeeper |
| 1940 | Women Without Names | Principal Keeper Grimley |
| 1940 | The House Across the Bay | Charlie |
| 1940 | Honeymoon Deferred | Detective James |
| 1939 | The Man from Montreal | Biff Anders (as Joseph Sawyer) |
| 1939 | The Roaring Twenties | The Sergeant |
| 1939 | Sabotage | Gardner |
| 1939 | I Stole a Million | Billings |
| 1939 | Frontier Marshal | Curley Bill |
| 1939 | Inside Information | Detective Grazzi |
| 1939 | Confessions of a Nazi Spy | Werner Renz |
| 1939 | Union Pacific | Shamus (uncredited) |
| 1939 | The Lady and the Mob | Blinky Mack |
| 1939 | You Can't Get Away with Murder | Red |
| 1938 | Gambling Ship | Tony Garzoni |
| 1938 | Heart of the North | Red Crocker |
| 1938 | Always in Trouble | Buster Mussendorfer |
| 1938 | The Storm | Kelly |
| 1938 | Passport Husband | Duke Selton |
| 1938 | Stolen Heaven | Bako |
| 1938 | Tarzan's Revenge | Olaf Punch |
| 1937 | Behind the Criminal | Red Manders |
| 1937 | The Lady Fights Back | Swede Jannsen |
| 1937 | Reported Missing | 'Brad' Martin |
| 1937 | A Dangerous Adventure | Dutch |
| 1937 | Midnight Madonna | Wolfe |
| 1937 | Slim | Windy Wilcox |
| 1937 | San Quentin | 'Sailor Boy' Hansen |
| 1937 | They Gave Him a Gun | Doyle - Gangster (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Motor Madness | Steve Dolan |
| 1937 | Navy Blues | Chips |
| 1937 | Black Legion | Cliff Summers |
| 1936 | Great Guy | Joe Burton |
| 1936 | Rose Bowl | Announcer |
| 1936 | The Accusing Finger | Father Regan, chaplain |
| 1936 | Two in a Crowd | Bonelli's Henchman |
| 1936 | Murder with Pictures | Inspector Tom Bacon |
| 1936 | Crash Donovan | Henchman (uncredited) |
| 1936 | A Son Comes Home | First Truck Driver |
| 1936 | High Tension | Terry Madden |
| 1936 | And Sudden Death | Police Sgt. Sanborn |
| 1936 | Special Investigator | Jim Plummer |
| 1936 | Big Brown Eyes | Jack Sully |
| 1936 | Pride of the Marines | Tennessee |
| 1936 | The Country Doctor | Joe, the Logger Lifting Log (uncredited) |
| 1936 | The Walking Dead | 'Trigger' Smith |
| 1936 | The Leathernecks Have Landed | Sgt. Regan |
| 1936 | The Petrified Forest | Jackie |
| 1936 | Freshman Love | Coach Kendall |
| 1935 | Man of Iron | Crawford |
| 1935 | Frisco Kid | Slugs Crippen (as Joseph Sawyer) |
| 1935 | I Found Stella Parish | Chuck (as Joseph Sawyer) |
| 1935 | Moonlight on the Prairie | Luke Thomas |
| 1935 | Special Agent | Rich - Chief Henchman |
| 1935 | Little Big Shot | Doré's Henchman |
| 1935 | Broadway Gondolier | 'Red' |
| 1935 | The Arizonian | Henchman Keeler |
| 1935 | The Informer | Bartly Mulholland |
| 1935 | Car 99 | Whitey, burly henchman |
| 1935 | The Whole Town's Talking | Mannion's Thug (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Sequoia | Forest Ranger (uncredited) |
| 1934 | The Band Plays On | Mr. Thomas |
| 1934 | The Westerner | Bob Lockhart |
| 1934 | College Rhythm | Spud Miller |
| 1934 | The Prescott Kid | Marshal Willoughby |
| 1934 | Gridiron Flash | Coach Eversmith |
| 1934 | The Case of the Howling Dog | Carl Trask (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Death on the Diamond | "Dunc" Spencer |
| 1934 | The Notorious Sophie Lang | Building Guard (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Sing and Like It | Gunner - Hood |
| 1934 | Looking for Trouble | Max Stanley |
| 1934 | Jimmy the Gent | Mike (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Son of a Sailor | Slug |
| 1933 | Eskimo | Sergeant Hunt (uncredited) |
| 1933 | College Coach | Holcomb |
| 1933 | Ace of Aces | Captain Daly |
| 1933 | Saturday's Millions | Coach |
| 1933 | Golden Harvest | Farmhand (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Three Cornered Moon | Head Lifeguard (uncredited) |
| 1933 | The Stranger's Return | Thresher |
| 1933 | College Humor | Tex Roust (as Joseph Sauers) |
| 1933 | Hold Your Man | Policeman at Reformatory (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Olsen’s Big Moment | Dapper' Danny Reynolds |
| 1932 | Huddle | Slater |
| 1932 | Arsène Lupin | Leroux (uncredited) |
| 1931 | Maker of Men | Bennett the Monroe Coach (uncredited) |
| 1931 | The Public Enemy | Pool Player (uncredited) |
| 1930 | Campus Sweethearts |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1950 | Operation Haylift | Producer, Writer |
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