Joe Sawyer
Acting • Born 1906-08-29 – Died 1982-04-21
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.
Filmography
191 credits
The Killing
Movie • 1956
Mike O'Reilly
The Grapes of Wrath
Movie • 1940
Bookkeeper
Santa Fe Trail
Movie • 1940
Kitzmiller
Gilda
Movie • 1946
Casey
Blondie's Hero
Movie • 1950
Sergeant Gateson
The Outlaw
Movie • 1943
Charley Woodruff
The Naughty Nineties
Movie • 1945
Bailey
The Walking Dead
Movie • 1936
'Trigger' Smith
Comin' Round the Mountain
Movie • 1951
Kalem McCoy
Hit the Ice
Movie • 1943
Buster
Deadline at Dawn
Movie • 1946
Babe Dooley
A Double Life
Movie • 1947
Pete Bonner
Prescott Kid
Movie • 1934
Marshal Willoughby
Black Legion
Movie • 1937
Cliff Summers
Coroner Creek
Movie • 1948
Frank Yordy
Brewster's Millions
Movie • 1945
Hacky Smith
The Roaring Twenties
Movie • 1939
The Sergeant
The Singing Sheriff
Movie • 1944
Squint
The Informer
Movie • 1935
Bartly Mulholland
The House Across the Bay
Movie • 1940
Charlie
Kazan
Movie • 1949
Sandz Jepson
Sergeant York
Movie • 1941
Sergeant Early
I Stole a Million
Movie • 1939
Billings
They Died with Their Boots On
Movie • 1941
Sgt. Doolittle
The Petrified Forest
Movie • 1936
Jackie
How the West Was Won
Movie • 1962
Riverboat Officer (uncredited)
It Came from Outer Space
Movie • 1953
Frank Daylon
Special Agent
Movie • 1935
Rich - Chief Henchman
The Border Legion
Movie • 1940
Jim Gulden
Belle Starr
Movie • 1941
John Cole
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
Movie • 1943
Karl Straeder
The Kettles in the Ozarks
Movie • 1956
Bancroft Baines
Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West
Movie • 1991
Sgt. Biff O'Hara
Brooklyn Orchid
Movie • 1942
Eddie Corbett
Hay Foot
Movie • 1942
Sergeant Ames
Special Investigator
Movie • 1936
Jim Plummer
The Leathernecks Have Landed
Movie • 1936
Sgt. Regan
Little Big Shot
Movie • 1935
Doré's Henchman
About Face
Movie • 1942
Sgt. William Ames
Raiders of Ghost City
Movie • 1944
Idaho Jones
The Runaround
Movie • 1946
Hutchins
Inside Information
Movie • 1939
Detective Grazzi
The Accusing Finger
Movie • 1936
Father Regan, chaplain
Red Skies of Montana
Movie • 1952
R. A. 'Pop' Miller
Eskimo
Movie • 1933
Sergeant Hunt (uncredited)
Buckskin Frontier
Movie • 1943
Brannigan
Legends of the West
Movie • 1992
Curley Bill in 'Frontier Marshall' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Frontier Marshal
Movie • 1939
Curley Bill
Behind the Criminal
Movie • 1937
Red Manders
Roses Are Red
Movie • 1947
Police Lt. Rocky Wall
Down Mexico Way
Movie • 1941
Allen
Frisco Kid
Movie • 1935
Slugs Crippen (as Joseph Sawyer)
The Lucky Stiff
Movie • 1949
Tony
Half Past Midnight
Movie • 1948
Det. Lt. Joe Nash
Lucky Cisco Kid
Movie • 1940
Bill Stevens
The McGuerins from Brooklyn
Movie • 1942
Eddie Corbett
Taxi, Mister
Movie • 1943
Eddie Corbett
Big Town After Dark
Movie • 1947
Monk
Here Comes Trouble
Movie • 1948
Officer Ames
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
Movie • 1995
Frank Daylon (archive footage) (uncredited)
College Humor
Movie • 1933
Tex Roust (as Joseph Sauers)
Stolen Heaven
Movie • 1938
Bako
Murder with Pictures
Movie • 1936
Inspector Tom Bacon
Operation Haylift
Movie • 1950
George Swallow
Sing and Like It
Movie • 1934
Gunner - Hood
Tornado
Movie • 1943
Charlie Muscles
Moonlight on the Prairie
Movie • 1935
Luke Thomas
Wildcat Bus
Movie • 1940
Burke
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
Movie • 1950
Jake
Fall In
Movie • 1942
Sgt. Ames
As You Were
Movie • 1951
Sgt. Ames
Mr. Walkie Talkie
Movie • 1952
Sgt. Ames
Navy Blues
Movie • 1937
Chips
The Flying Missile
Movie • 1950
Fuss Payne
Deputy Marshal
Movie • 1949
Eli Cressett
Car 99
Movie • 1935
Whitey, burly henchman
Always in Trouble
Movie • 1938
Buster Mussendorfer
Gridiron Flash
Movie • 1934
Coach Eversmith
Indian Uprising
Movie • 1952
Sgt. Maj. Phineas T. Keogh
The Case of the Howling Dog
Movie • 1934
Carl Trask (uncredited)
Maker of Men
Movie • 1931
Bennett the Monroe Coach (uncredited)
Jimmy the Gent
Movie • 1934
Mike (uncredited)
Fighting Father Dunne
Movie • 1948
Steve Davis
Big Brown Eyes
Movie • 1936
Jack Sully
If You Knew Susie
Movie • 1948
Zero Zantini
The Lady Fights Back
Movie • 1937
Swede Jannsen
Passport Husband
Movie • 1938
Duke Selton
Looking for Trouble
Movie • 1934
Max Stanley
Christmas Eve
Movie • 1947
Private Detective
Yanks Ahoy
Movie • 1943
Sgt. Ames
Reported Missing
Movie • 1937
'Brad' Martin
Two in a Crowd
Movie • 1936
Bonelli's Henchman
Rose Bowl
Movie • 1936
Announcer
Fighting Back
Movie • 1948
Police Sergeant Scudder
The Band Plays On
Movie • 1934
Mr. Thomas
They Gave Him a Gun
Movie • 1937
Doyle - Gangster (uncredited)
The Stranger's Return
Movie • 1933
Thresher
Broadway Gondolier
Movie • 1935
'Red'
Last of the Duanes
Movie • 1941
Bull Lossomer
Ace of Aces
Movie • 1933
Captain Daly
Tarzan's Revenge
Movie • 1938
Olaf Punch
King of the Lumberjacks
Movie • 1940
Jigger
The Lady and the Mob
Movie • 1939
Blinky Mack
Alaska Highway
Movie • 1943
Roughhouse
Prairie Chickens
Movie • 1943
Albertson
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Movie • 1939
Werner Renz
Union Pacific
Movie • 1939
Shamus (uncredited)
A Letter From Bataan
Movie • 1942
Roy - John's Brother-in-Law
Moon Over Las Vegas
Movie • 1944
Joe
High Powered
Movie • 1945
Spike Kenny
The Traveling Saleswoman
Movie • 1950
Cactus Jack
Heart of the North
Movie • 1938
Red Crocker
Man of Iron
Movie • 1935
Crawford
A Son Comes Home
Movie • 1936
First Truck Driver
The Country Doctor
Movie • 1936
Joe, the Logger Lifting Log (uncredited)
G.I. War Brides
Movie • 1946
Sgt. Frank Moraski
Son of a Sailor
Movie • 1933
Slug
The Untamed Breed
Movie • 1948
Hoy Keegan
High Tension
Movie • 1936
Terry Madden
Great Guy
Movie • 1936
Joe Burton
A Dangerous Adventure
Movie • 1937
Dutch
Tucson
Movie • 1949
Tod Bryant
Tanks a Million
Movie • 1941
Sgt. William Ames
The Gay Amigo
Movie • 1949
Sergeant McNulty
And Baby Makes Three
Movie • 1949
Police officer
The Lady from Cheyenne
Movie • 1941
Sheriff 'Noisy' Burkett, Henchman
Dark Command
Movie • 1940
Bushropp
Stagecoach Kid
Movie • 1949
Thatcher
Inside Job
Movie • 1946
Police Capt. Thomas
Gambling Ship
Movie • 1938
Tony Garzoni
Three Cornered Moon
Movie • 1933
Head Lifeguard (uncredited)
Huddle
Movie • 1932
Slater
The Arizonian
Movie • 1935
Henchman Keeler
Freshman Love
Movie • 1936
Coach Kendall
San Quentin
Movie • 1937
'Sailor Boy' Hansen
The Long Voyage Home
Movie • 1940
Davis
Swamp Water
Movie • 1941
Hardy Ragan
College Coach
Movie • 1933
Holcomb
Sequoia
Movie • 1935
Forest Ranger (uncredited)
Melody Ranch
Movie • 1940
Jasper Wildhack
Women Without Names
Movie • 1940
Principal Keeper Grimley
You're in the Army Now
Movie • 1941
Sergeant Madden
Johnny Dark
Movie • 1954
Carl Svenson
And Sudden Death
Movie • 1936
Police Sgt. Sanborn
Let's Face It
Movie • 1943
Sgt. Wiggins
Sabotage
Movie • 1939
Gardner
Sundown Jim
Movie • 1942
Ben Moffitt
Down in San Diego
Movie • 1941
Dutch
Golden Harvest
Movie • 1933
Farmhand (uncredited)
Riding Shotgun
Movie • 1954
Tom Biggert
The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin
Movie • 1958
Sgt. 'Biff' O'Hara
North to Alaska
Movie • 1960
Land Commissioner
Death on the Diamond
Movie • 1934
"Dunc" Spencer
Hey, Rookie
Movie • 1944
Sergeant
Honeymoon Deferred
Movie • 1940
Detective James
Saturday's Millions
Movie • 1933
Coach
The Storm
Movie • 1938
Kelly
Taza, Son of Cochise
Movie • 1954
Sgt. Hamma
Wrecking Crew
Movie • 1942
Fred Bunce
Cowboy in Manhattan
Movie • 1943
Louie
Deadline - U.S.A.
Movie • 1952
Whitey Franks (uncredited)
Midnight Madonna
Movie • 1937
Wolfe
The Whole Town's Talking
Movie • 1935
Mannion's Thug (uncredited)
The Public Enemy
Movie • 1931
Pool Player (uncredited)
Arsène Lupin
Movie • 1932
Leroux (uncredited)
College Rhythm
Movie • 1934
Spud Miller
Joe Palooka, Champ
Movie • 1946
Lefty
Crash Donovan
Movie • 1936
Henchman (uncredited)
Pride of the Marines
Movie • 1936
Tennessee
South of Dixie
Movie • 1944
Ernest Hatcher
Sleepy Lagoon
Movie • 1943
Lumpy
You Can't Get Away with Murder
Movie • 1939
Red
The Man from Montreal
Movie • 1939
Biff Anders (as Joseph Sawyer)
I Found Stella Parish
Movie • 1935
Chuck (as Joseph Sawyer)
The Westerner
Movie • 1934
Bob Lockhart
The Notorious Sophie Lang
Movie • 1934
Building Guard (uncredited)
Hold Your Man
Movie • 1933
Policeman at Reformatory (uncredited)
Slim
Movie • 1937
Windy Wilcox
Campus Sweethearts
Movie • 1930
Pride of Maryland
Movie • 1951
Knuckles
Motor Madness
Movie • 1937
Steve Dolan
Surfside 6
TV • 1960
Leon Huff
Everglades
TV • 1961
Peter Gunn
TV • 1958
Ford Theatre
TV • 1948
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
TV • 1954
Sugarfoot
TV • 1957
Fighting Sam Brown
Racket Squad
TV • 1951
Harrigan and Son
TV • 1960
The Abbott and Costello Show
TV • 1952
Chopper
Lock-Up
TV • 1959
Sgt. McEvoy