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Joe Sawyer

Born 1906-08-29

Died 1982-04-21

📍 Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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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.

Sawyer died April 21, 1982, in Ashland, Oregon from liver cancer. He was 75. His interment was in Oregon.

Filmography 187

Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey

as Frank Daylon (archive footage) (uncredited)

Legends of the West

as Curley Bill in 'Frontier Marshall' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West

as Sgt. Biff O'Hara

How the West Was Won

as Riverboat Officer (uncredited)

North to Alaska

as Land Commissioner

Harrigan and Son

The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin

as Sgt. 'Biff' O'Hara

as Fighting Sam Brown

as Mike O'Reilly

The Kettles in the Ozarks

as Bancroft Baines

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

as Carl Svenson

Taza, Son of Cochise

It Came from Outer Space

as Frank Daylon

The Abbott and Costello Show

Mr. Walkie Talkie

Deadline - U.S.A.

as Whitey Franks (uncredited)

Red Skies of Montana

as R. A. 'Pop' Miller

Indian Uprising

as Sgt. Maj. Phineas T. Keogh

Comin' Round the Mountain

Pride of Maryland

The Flying Missile

Curtain Call at Cactus Creek

Operation Haylift

as George Swallow

as Sergeant Gateson

The Traveling Saleswoman

And Baby Makes Three

as Police officer

as Eli Cressett

as Sandz Jepson

The Lucky Stiff

as Sergeant McNulty

The Untamed Breed

as Police Sergeant Scudder

Fighting Father Dunne

Here Comes Trouble

as Officer Ames

Half Past Midnight

as Det. Lt. Joe Nash

If You Knew Susie

as Zero Zantini

Big Town After Dark

as Police Lt. Rocky Wall

as Private Detective

G.I. War Brides

as Sgt. Frank Moraski

as Police Capt. Thomas

Joe Palooka, Champ

Deadline at Dawn

The Naughty Nineties

Brewster's Millions

The Singing Sheriff

Raiders of Ghost City

as Ernest Hatcher

Moon Over Las Vegas

Tarzan's Desert Mystery

as Karl Straeder

as Charlie Muscles

as Sgt. Wiggins

Prairie Chickens

Cowboy in Manhattan

Buckskin Frontier

as Eddie Corbett

as Charley Woodruff

The McGuerins from Brooklyn

as Eddie Corbett

A Letter From Bataan

as Roy - John's Brother-in-Law

as Sgt. William Ames

Brooklyn Orchid

as Eddie Corbett

as Sergeant Ames

You're in the Army Now

as Sergeant Madden

They Died with Their Boots On

as Sgt. Doolittle

Down Mexico Way

as Sergeant Early

Last of the Duanes

as Bull Lossomer

Tanks a Million

as Sgt. William Ames

Down in San Diego

The Lady from Cheyenne

as Sheriff 'Noisy' Burkett, Henchman

The Border Legion

The Long Voyage Home

as Jasper Wildhack

Lucky Cisco Kid

as Bill Stevens

King of the Lumberjacks

The Grapes of Wrath

Women Without Names

as Principal Keeper Grimley

The House Across the Bay

Honeymoon Deferred

as Detective James

The Man from Montreal

as Biff Anders (as Joseph Sawyer)

The Roaring Twenties

as The Sergeant

I Stole a Million

Frontier Marshal

Inside Information

as Detective Grazzi

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

as Shamus (uncredited)

The Lady and the Mob

You Can't Get Away with Murder

Heart of the North

Always in Trouble

as Buster Mussendorfer

Passport Husband

Tarzan's Revenge

Behind the Criminal

Reported Missing

as 'Brad' Martin

A Dangerous Adventure

as Windy Wilcox

as 'Sailor Boy' Hansen

They Gave Him a Gun

as Doyle - Gangster (uncredited)

as Cliff Summers

The Accusing Finger

as Father Regan, chaplain

as Bonelli's Henchman

Murder with Pictures

as Inspector Tom Bacon

as Henchman (uncredited)

A Son Comes Home

as First Truck Driver

as Terry Madden

And Sudden Death

as Police Sgt. Sanborn

Special Investigator

Pride of the Marines

The Country Doctor

as Joe, the Logger Lifting Log (uncredited)

The Walking Dead

as 'Trigger' Smith

The Leathernecks Have Landed

The Petrified Forest

as Coach Kendall

as Slugs Crippen (as Joseph Sawyer)

I Found Stella Parish

as Chuck (as Joseph Sawyer)

Moonlight on the Prairie

as Rich - Chief Henchman

Little Big Shot

as Doré's Henchman

Broadway Gondolier

as Henchman Keeler

as Bartly Mulholland

as Whitey, burly henchman

The Whole Town's Talking

as Mannion's Thug (uncredited)

as Forest Ranger (uncredited)

The Band Plays On

as Bob Lockhart

The Prescott Kid

as Marshal Willoughby

as Coach Eversmith

The Case of the Howling Dog

as Carl Trask (uncredited)

Death on the Diamond

as "Dunc" Spencer

The Notorious Sophie Lang

as Building Guard (uncredited)

Sing and Like It

as Gunner - Hood

Looking for Trouble

as Mike (uncredited)

Son of a Sailor

as Sergeant Hunt (uncredited)

as Captain Daly

Saturday's Millions

as Farmhand (uncredited)

Three Cornered Moon

as Head Lifeguard (uncredited)

The Stranger's Return

as Tex Roust (as Joseph Sauers)

as Policeman at Reformatory (uncredited)

Olsen’s Big Moment

as Dapper' Danny Reynolds

as Leroux (uncredited)

as Bennett the Monroe Coach (uncredited)

The Public Enemy

as Pool Player (uncredited)