Joe Sawyer
Joe Sawyer 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.
Selected filmography
- The Public Enemy as Pool player
- New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford as Willis the Newspaper Reporter
- Surrender as Sergeant Muller
- Maker of Men as Bennett the Monroe Coach
- Arsene Lupin as Leroux
- Shopworn as Construction Camp Worker
- Young Bride as Library Patron Seeking Aphrodite
- Huddle as Slater
- Forgotten Commandments as Ivan Ivanovitch Petroff
- Olsen's Big Moment as 'Dapper' Danny Reynolds
- Hold Your Man as Policeman at Reformatory
- College Humor as Tex Roust
- The Stranger's Return as Farmhand
- Three Cornered Moon as Swimming Pool Instructor
- Golden Harvest as Farmhand
- Saturday's Millions as Coach
- Ace of Aces as Capt. Daly
- College Coach as Holcomb
- Eskimo as Sergeant Hunt
- Blood Money as Red
- Jimmy and Sally as Slug Morgan
- Son of a Sailor as Slug
- Jimmy the Gent as Mike
- Wharf Angel as Sailor on 'The Coyote'
- Looking for Trouble as Henchman Max Stanley
- Sing and Like It as Gunner - Hood
- Stamboul Quest as Soldier Escorting Doktor
- The Notorious Sophie Lang as Building Guard
- Death on the Diamond as Spencer
- The Case of the Howling Dog as Carl Trask
- Against the Law as McManus
- Gridiron Flash as Coach Eversmith
- The Prescott Kid as Marshal Willoughby
- College Rhythm as Spud Miller
- Behold My Wife! as Morton
- The Westerner as Bob Lockhart
- The Band Plays On as Mr. Thomas
- Sequoia as Forest Ranger
- The Whole Town's Talking as Nick, Mannion's Henchman
- Car 99 as Whitey
- Eight Bells as Gates
- Air Hawks as Henchman
- The Informer as Barty Mulholland
- The Arizonian as Henchman Keeler
- Broadway Gondolier as 'Red'
- Man on the Flying Trapeze as Ambulance Driver
- Little Big Shot as Doré's Henchman #1
- Special Agent as Ned Rich
- Moonlight on the Prairie as Luke Thomas
- I Found Stella Parish as Chuck
- Frisco Kid as Slugs Crippen
- Man of Iron as Crawford
- Freshman Love as Coach Kendall
- The Petrified Forest as Jackie
- The Leathernecks Have Landed as Sgt. Regan
- The Walking Dead as Trigger Smith
- The Country Doctor as Joe, Logger lifting log
- Pride of the Marines as Tennessee
- Big Brown Eyes as Jack Sully
- Special Investigator as Jim 'Jimmy' Plummer
- And Sudden Death as Police Sgt. Sanborn
- High Tension as Terry Madden
- A Son Comes Home as First Truck Driver
- Crash Donovan as Henchman
- Murder with Pictures as Inspector Bacon
- Two in a Crowd as Bonelli's Henchman
- Rose Bowl as Announcer
- The Accusing Finger as Father Reed - the Priest
- Great Guy as Burton
- Black Legion as Cliff Moore
- Navy Blues as Chips
- Motor Madness as Steve Dolan
- They Gave Him a Gun as Doyle - Gangster
- San Quentin as 'Sailor Boy' Hansen
- Slim as Wilcox
- Midnight Madonna as Wolfe
- A Dangerous Adventure as Dutch
- Reported Missing as 'Brad' Martin
- The Lady Fights Back as Swede Jannsen
- Tarzan's Revenge as Olaf Punch
- Stolen Heaven as Bako
- Passport Husband as Duke Selton
- Always in Trouble as Buster Mussendorfer
- The Storm as Kelly - Wireless Operator
- Heart of the North as Red Crocker
- Gambling Ship as Tony Garzoni
- My Son Is a Criminal as Policeman
- You Can't Get Away with Murder as Red
- The Lady and the Mob as Blinky Mack
- Confessions of a Nazi Spy as Werner Renz
- Union Pacific as Shamus
- Inside Information as Detective Grazzi
- Frontier Marshal as Curley Bill
- I Stole a Million as Billings
- Rio as Prison Guard
- Sabotage as Gardner
- The Roaring Twenties as Sergeant Pete Jones
- Man from Montreal as Biff Anders
- The Grapes of Wrath as Keene Ranch foreman
- Honeymoon Deferred as Detective James
- The House Across the Bay as Charley
- Women Without Names as Principal Keeper Grimley
- Dark Command as Bushropp
- King of the Lumberjacks as Jigger, a Lumberjack
- Lucky Cisco Kid as Bill Stevens
- Wildcat Bus as Burke
- The Long Voyage Home as Davis
- Melody Ranch as Jasper Wildhack
- The Border Legion as Jim Gulden
- Santa Fe Trail as Kitzmiller
- The Lady from Cheyenne as Sheriff 'Noisy' Burkett, Henchman
- Sergeant York as Sergeant Early
- Down in San Diego as Dutch
- Belle Starr as John Cole
- Tanks a Million as Sgt. William Ames
- Last of the Duanes as Bull Lossomer
- Down Mexico Way as Allen
- Swamp Water as Hardy Ragan
- They Died with Their Boots On as Sergeant Doolittle
- You're in the Army Now as Sergeant Madden
- Hay Foot as Sergeant Ames
- Brooklyn Orchid as Eddie Corbett
- Sundown Jim as Ben Moffitt
- Wrecking Crew as Fred Bunce
- Fall In as Sgt. William Ames
- The McGuerins from Brooklyn as Eddie Corbett
- The Outlaw as Charley Woodruff
- Prairie Chickens as Albertson
- Taxi, Mister as Eddie Corbett
- Buckskin Frontier as Brannigan
- Cowboy in Manhattan as Louie
- Hit the Ice as Buster
- Alaska Highway as Roughhouse
- Yanks Ahoy as Sgt. Ames
- Let's Face It as Sergeant Wiggins
- Sleepy Lagoon as Lumpy
- Tarzan's Desert Mystery as Karl Straeder
- Tornado as Charlie Boswell
- Moon Over Las Vegas as Joe
- Hey, Rookie as Sergeant
- South of Dixie as Ernest Hatcher
- Raiders of Ghost City as Idaho Jones
- The Singing Sheriff as Squint
- High Powered as Spike Kenny
- Brewster's Millions as Hacky Smith
- The Naughty Nineties as Bailey
- Deadline at Dawn as Babe Dooley
- Gilda as Casey
- Joe Palooka, Champ as Lefty
- The Runaround as Hutchins
- Inside Job as Police Capt. Thomas
- G.I. War Brides as Sgt. Frank Moraski
- Christmas Eve as Private Detective Gimlet
- Roses Are Red as Police Lt. Rocky Wall
- Big Town After Dark as Monk
- A Double Life as Det. Pete Bonner
- If You Knew Susie as Zero Zantini
- Here Comes Trouble as Officer Ames
- Half Past Midnight as Det. Lt. Joe Nash
- Fighting Father Dunne as Steve Davis
- Coroner Creek as Frank Yordy
- Fighting Back as Police Sgt. Scudder
- The Untamed Breed as Hoy Keegan
- Two Knights from Brooklyn as Eddie Corbett
- The Lucky Stiff as Tony
- Kazan
- Tucson as Tod Bryant
- The Gay Amigo as Sergeant McNulty
- Stagecoach Kid as Thatcher
- Pinky as Sandz Jepson
- Deputy Marshall as Eli Cressett / Colt Redwood
- And Baby Makes Three as Motorcycle Cop
- The Traveling Saleswoman as Cactus Jack
- Blondie's Hero as Sgt. Gateson
- Operation Haylift as George Swallow
- Curtain Call at Cactus Creek as Jake
- The Flying Missile as Quartermaster 'Fuss' Payne
- Pride of Maryland as Knuckles
- Comin' Round the Mountain as Kalem McCoy
- As You Were as Sgt. Ames
- Indian Uprising as Sgt. Maj. Phineas T. Keogh
- Red Skies of Montana as R.A. Miller
- Deadline – U.S.A. as Whitey Franks
- Mr. Walkie Talkie as Sgt. Ames
- It Came from Outer Space as Frank Daylon
- Taza, Son of Cochise as Sgt. Hamma
- Riding Shotgun as Tom Biggert
- Johnny Dark as Carl Svenson
- The Kettles in the Ozarks as Bancroft Baines
- The Killing as Mike O'Reilly
- The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin as Sgt. 'Biff' O'Hara
- North to Alaska as Land Commissioner
- How the West Was Won as Riverboat Officer