Joe Sawyer

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Joe Sawyer (born Joseph Sauers; August 29, 1906 – April 21, 1982) was a Canadian film actor.^[1] He appeared in more than 200 films between 1927 and 1962,^[2] and was sometimes billed under his birth name.

Joe Sawyer
Sawyer in Tarzan's Revenge (1938)
Born	Joseph Sauers (1906-08-29)August 29, 1906 Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Died	April 21, 1982(1982-04-21) (aged 75) Ashland, Oregon, U.S.
Other names	Joseph Sawyer
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1930–1962

Early life

Sawyer was born August 29, 1906, as Joseph Sauer^[3] in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. His parents were German. In his 20s he went to Los Angeles to pursue a career in films.^[4]

Career

Sawyer gained acting experience in the Pasadena Playhouse.^[5] Productions in which he performed there included Quinneys, The Wolves, and White Wings.^[6]

Popular roles that he portrayed included Sergeant Biff O'Hara in the Rin Tin Tin television program,^[2] 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. Sawyer also appeared on ABC's, Maverick, Sugarfoot, Peter Gunn, and Surfside 6 as well as NBC's Bat Masterson.

Death

Sawyer died April 21, 1982, in Ashland, Oregon, from liver cancer. He was 75.^[5] His interment was in Oregon.^{[citation needed]}

Selected filmography

• The Public Enemy (1931) as Pool player (uncredited)
• New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford (1931) as Willis the Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
• Surrender (1931) as Sergeant Muller
• Maker of Men (1931) as Bennett the Monroe Coach (uncredited)
• Arsene Lupin (1932) as Leroux (uncredited)
• Shopworn (1932) as Construction Camp Worker (uncredited)
• Young Bride (1932) as Library Patron Seeking Aphrodite (uncredited)
• Huddle (1932) as Slater
• Forgotten Commandments (1932) as Ivan Ivanovitch Petroff (uncredited)
• Olsen's Big Moment (1933) as 'Dapper' Danny Reynolds
• Hold Your Man (1933) as Policeman at Reformatory (uncredited)
• College Humor (1933) as Tex Roust
• The Stranger's Return (1933) as Farmhand (uncredited)
• Three Cornered Moon (1933) as Swimming Pool Instructor (uncredited)
• Golden Harvest (1933) as Farmhand (uncredited)
• Saturday's Millions (1933) as Coach
• Ace of Aces (1933) as Capt. Daly
• College Coach (1933) as Holcomb
• Eskimo (1933) as Sergeant Hunt (uncredited)
• Blood Money (1933) as Red (uncredited)
• Jimmy and Sally (1933) as Slug Morgan (uncredited)
• Son of a Sailor (1933) as Slug (uncredited)
• Jimmy the Gent (1934) as Mike (uncredited)
• Wharf Angel (1934) as Sailor on 'The Coyote' (uncredited)
• Looking for Trouble (1934) as Henchman Max Stanley
• Sing and Like It (1934) as Gunner – Hood
• Stamboul Quest (1934) as Soldier Escorting Doktor (uncredited)
• The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934) as Building Guard (uncredited)
• Death on the Diamond (1934) as Spencer
• The Case of the Howling Dog (1934) as Carl Trask (uncredited)
• Against the Law (1934) as McManus (uncredited)
• Gridiron Flash (1934) as Coach Eversmith
• The Prescott Kid (1934) as Marshal Willoughby
• College Rhythm (1934) as Spud Miller (uncredited)
• Behold My Wife! (1934) as Morton (uncredited)
• The Westerner (1934) as Bob Lockhart
• The Band Plays On (1934) as Mr. Thomas
• Sequoia (1934) as Forest Ranger (uncredited)
• The Whole Town's Talking (1935) as Nick, Mannion's Henchman (uncredited)
• Car 99 (1935) as Whitey
• Eight Bells (1935) as Gates (uncredited)
• Air Hawks (1935) as Henchman (uncredited)
• The Informer (1935) as Barty Mulholland
• The Arizonian (1935) as Henchman Keeler
• Broadway Gondolier (1935) as 'Red'
• Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) as Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
• Little Big Shot (1935) as Doré's Henchman #1
• Special Agent (1935) as Ned Rich
• Moonlight on the Prairie (1935) as Luke Thomas
• I Found Stella Parish (1935) as Chuck
• Frisco Kid (1935) as Slugs Crippen
• Man of Iron (1935) as Crawford
• Freshman Love (1936) as Coach Kendall
• The Petrified Forest (1936) as Jackie
• The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936) as Sgt. Regan
• The Walking Dead (1936) as Trigger Smith
• The Country Doctor (1936) as Joe, Logger lifting log (uncredited)
• Pride of the Marines (1936) as Tennessee
• Big Brown Eyes (1936) as Jack Sully
• Special Investigator (1936) as Jim 'Jimmy' Plummer
• And Sudden Death (1936) as Police Sgt. Sanborn
• High Tension (1936) as Terry Madden
• A Son Comes Home (1936) as First Truck Driver (uncredited)
• Crash Donovan (1936) as Henchman (uncredited)
• Murder with Pictures (1936) as Inspector Bacon
• Two in a Crowd (1936) as Bonelli's Henchman
• Rose Bowl (1936) as Announcer (uncredited)
• The Accusing Finger (1936) as Father Reed – the Priest
• Great Guy (1936) as Burton
• Black Legion (1937) as Cliff Moore
• Navy Blues (1937) as Chips
• Motor Madness (1937) as Steve Dolan
• They Gave Him a Gun (1937) as Doyle – Gangster (uncredited)
• San Quentin (1937) as 'Sailor Boy' Hansen
• Slim (1937) as Wilcox
• Midnight Madonna (1937) as Wolfe
• A Dangerous Adventure (1937) as Dutch
• Reported Missing (1937) as 'Brad' Martin
• The Lady Fights Back (1937) as Swede Jannsen
• Tarzan's Revenge (1938) as Olaf Punch
• Stolen Heaven (1938) as Bako
• Passport Husband (1938) as Duke Selton
• Always in Trouble (1938) as Buster Mussendorfer
• The Storm (1938) as Kelly – Wireless Operator
• Heart of the North (1938) as Red Crocker
• Gambling Ship (1938) as Tony Garzoni
• My Son Is a Criminal (1939) as Policeman (uncredited)
• You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939) as Red
• The Lady and the Mob (1939) as Blinky Mack
• Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) as Werner Renz
• Union Pacific (1939) as Shamus (uncredited)
• Inside Information (1939) as Detective Grazzi
• Frontier Marshal (1939) as Curley Bill
• I Stole a Million (1939) as Billings
• Rio (1939) as Prison Guard (uncredited)
• Sabotage (1939) as Gardner
• The Roaring Twenties (1939) as Sergeant Pete Jones
• Man from Montreal (1939) as Biff Anders
• The Grapes of Wrath (1940) as Keene Ranch foreman
• Honeymoon Deferred (1940) as Detective James
• The House Across the Bay (1940) as Charley
• Women Without Names (1940) as Principal Keeper Grimley (uncredited)
• Dark Command (1940) as Bushropp
• King of the Lumberjacks (1940) as Jigger, a Lumberjack
• Lucky Cisco Kid (1940) as Bill Stevens
• Wildcat Bus (1940) as Burke
• The Long Voyage Home (1940) as Davis
• Melody Ranch (1940) as Jasper Wildhack
• The Border Legion (1940) as Jim Gulden
• Santa Fe Trail (1940) as Kitzmiller
• The Lady from Cheyenne (1941) as Sheriff 'Noisy' Burkett, Henchman (uncredited)
• Sergeant York (1941) as Sergeant Early
• Down in San Diego (1941) as Dutch
• Belle Starr (1941) as John Cole
• Tanks a Million (1941) as Sgt. William Ames
• Last of the Duanes (1941) as Bull Lossomer
• Down Mexico Way (1941) as Allen
• Swamp Water (1941) as Hardy Ragan
• They Died with Their Boots On (1941) as Sergeant Doolittle
• You're in the Army Now (1941) as Sergeant Madden
• Hay Foot (1942) as Sergeant Ames
• Brooklyn Orchid (1942) as Eddie Corbett
• Sundown Jim (1942) as Ben Moffitt
• Wrecking Crew (1942) as Fred Bunce
• Fall In (1942) as Sgt. William Ames
• The McGuerins from Brooklyn (1942) as Eddie Corbett
• The Outlaw (1943) as Charley Woodruff
• Prairie Chickens (1943) as Albertson
• Taxi, Mister (1943) as Eddie Corbett
• Buckskin Frontier (1943) as Brannigan
• Cowboy in Manhattan (1943) as Louie
• Hit the Ice (1943) as Buster
• Alaska Highway (1943) as Roughhouse
• Yanks Ahoy (1943) as Sgt. Ames
• Let's Face It (1943) as Sergeant Wiggins
• Sleepy Lagoon (1943) as Lumpy
• Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943) as Karl Straeder
• Tornado (1943) as Charlie Boswell
• Moon Over Las Vegas (1944) as Joe
• Hey, Rookie (1944) as Sergeant
• South of Dixie (1944) as Ernest Hatcher
• Raiders of Ghost City (1944) as Idaho Jones
• The Singing Sheriff (1944) as Squint
• High Powered (1945) as Spike Kenny
• Brewster's Millions (1945) as Hacky Smith
• The Naughty Nineties (1945) as Bailey
• Deadline at Dawn (1946) as Babe Dooley
• Gilda (1946) as Casey
• Joe Palooka, Champ (1946) as Lefty
• The Runaround (1946) as Hutchins
• Inside Job (1946) as Police Capt. Thomas
• G.I. War Brides (1946) as Sgt. Frank Moraski
• Christmas Eve (1947) as Private Detective Gimlet
• Roses Are Red (1947) as Police Lt. Rocky Wall
• Big Town After Dark (1947) as Monk
• A Double Life (1947) as Det. Pete Bonner
• If You Knew Susie (1948) as Zero Zantini
• Here Comes Trouble (1948) as Officer Ames
• Half Past Midnight (1948) as Det. Lt. Joe Nash
• Fighting Father Dunne (1948) as Steve Davis
• Coroner Creek (1948) as Frank Yordy
• Fighting Back (1948) as Police Sgt. Scudder
• The Untamed Breed (1948) as Hoy Keegan
• Two Knights from Brooklyn (1949) as Eddie Corbett (archive footage)
• The Lucky Stiff (1949) as Tony
• Kazan (1949)
• Tucson (1949) as Tod Bryant
• The Gay Amigo (1949) as Sergeant McNulty
• Stagecoach Kid (1949) as Thatcher
• Pinky (1949) as Sandz Jepson
• Deputy Marshall (1949) as Eli Cressett / Colt Redwood
• And Baby Makes Three (1949) as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
• The Traveling Saleswoman (1950) as Cactus Jack
• Blondie's Hero (1950) as Sgt. Gateson
• Operation Haylift (1950) as George Swallow
• Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950) as Jake
• The Flying Missile (1950) as Quartermaster 'Fuss' Payne
• Pride of Maryland (1951) as Knuckles
• Comin' Round the Mountain (1951) as Kalem McCoy
• As You Were (1952) as Sgt. Ames
• Indian Uprising (1952) as Sgt. Maj. Phineas T. Keogh
• Red Skies of Montana (1952) as R.A. (Pop) Miller
• Deadline – U.S.A. (1952) as Whitey Franks (uncredited)
• Mr. Walkie Talkie (1952) as Sgt. Ames
• It Came from Outer Space (1953) as Frank Daylon
• Taza, Son of Cochise (1954) as Sgt. Hamma
• Riding Shotgun (1954) as Tom Biggert
• Johnny Dark (1954) as Carl Svenson
• The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956) as Bancroft Baines
• The Killing (1956) as Mike O'Reilly
• The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin (1958) as Sgt. 'Biff' O'Hara
• New Comedy Showcase (TV series, 1960, Season 1 Episode 7 "Maisie") as Master Sergeant Blackenhorn
• North to Alaska (1960) as Land Commissioner
• How the West Was Won (1962) as Riverboat Officer (uncredited)