Joe Sawyer
Acting
🎂 1906-08-29
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.
Cast credits(189)
1948
Leon Huff
1960
1958
1951
Sgt. McEvoy
1959
Fighting Sam Brown
1957
1961
1960
Chopper
1952
1954
Mike O'Reilly
1956
Riverboat Officer (uncredited)
1962
Land Commissioner
1960
Casey
1946
Sergeant Early
1941
Bookkeeper
1940
Charley Woodruff
1943
Kitzmiller
1940
Sgt. Doolittle
1941
Pool Player (uncredited)
1931
The Sergeant
1939
Frank Daylon
1953
Shamus (uncredited)
1939
Curley Bill
1939
Whitey Franks (uncredited)
1952
Pete Bonner
1947
'Trigger' Smith
1936
Jackie
1936
Joe Burton
1936
Babe Dooley
1946
Roughhouse
1943
Hacky Smith
1945
Tom Biggert
1954
Father Reed, chaplain
1936
Hardy Ragan
1941
Bartly Mulholland
1935
Sgt. Ames
1942
Davis
1940
Cliff Summers
1937
John Cole
1941
Bushropp
1940
Jack Sully
1936
Bonelli's Henchman
1936
Karl Straeder
1943
'Sailor Boy' Hansen
1937
Frank Yordy
1948
Leroux (uncredited)
1932
Private Detective
1947
R. A. 'Pop' Miller
1952
Henchman (uncredited)
1936
Buster
1943
Charlie
1940
Monk
1947
"Dunc" Spencer
1934
Red
1939
Kalem McCoy
1951
Werner Renz
1939
Carl Trask (uncredited)
1934
Sergeant Ames
1942
Eddie Corbett
1943
Sgt. Wiggins
1943
Slater
1932
Gardner
1939
Jim Plummer
1936
Eddie Corbett
1942
'Red'
1935
Doré's Henchman
1935
Policeman at Reformatory (uncredited)
1933
Tod Bryant
1949
Billings
1939
Gunner - Hood
1934
Zero Zantini
1948
Sgt. Maj. Phineas T. Keogh
1952
Sgt. Frank Moraski
1946
Windy Wilcox
1937
Duke Selton
1938
Slugs Crippen (as Joseph Sawyer)
1935
Mannion's Thug (uncredited)
1935
Sergeant Hunt (uncredited)
1933
Brannigan
1943
Joe
1944
Sandz Jepson
1949
Building Guard (uncredited)
1934
Kelly
1938
Mike (uncredited)
1934
Rich - Chief Henchman
1935
Idaho Jones
1944
Allen
1941
Sergeant Madden
1941
Jasper Wildhack
1940
Sgt. Hamma
1954
Head Lifeguard (uncredited)
1933
Doyle - Gangster (uncredited)
1937
Eddie Corbett
1942
Announcer
1936
Jim Gulden
1940
Police Capt. Thomas
1946
Wolfe
1937
Holcomb
1933
Inspector Tom Bacon
1936
Officer Ames
1948
Mr. Thomas
1934
Fuss Payne
1950
Charlie Muscles
1943
Sergeant
1944
Coach Kendall
1936
Olaf Punch
1938
Sheriff 'Noisy' Burkett, Henchman
1941
Steve Davis
1948
Whitey, burly henchman
1935
Hoy Keegan
1948
Det. Lt. Joe Nash
1948
Forest Ranger (uncredited)
1935
Thatcher
1949
Joe, the Logger Lifting Log (uncredited)
1936
Police Sgt. Sanborn
1936
Cactus Jack
1950
Police officer
1949
Sergeant Gateson
1950
Curley Bill in 'Frontier Marshall'
1992
Sgt. Regan
1936
Red Manders
1937
Burke
1940
Sgt. William Ames
1942
Ernest Hatcher
1944
Detective James
1940
Detective Grazzi
1939
Slug
1933
Dutch
1941
Sgt. Ames
1943
Red Crocker
1938
Carl Svenson
1954
Henchman Keeler
1935
Lumpy
1943
Lefty
1946
Police Lt. Rocky Wall
1947
Police Sergeant Scudder
1948
Crawford
1935
Sgt. William Ames
1941
Chuck (as Joseph Sawyer)
1935
Bako
1938
Bailey
1945
Chips
1937
Frank Daylon (archive footage) (uncredited)
1995
Terry Madden
1936
Roy - John's Brother-in-Law
1942
Principal Keeper Grimley
1940
Max Stanley
1934
Tex Roust
1933
Squint
1944
Biff Anders (as Joseph Sawyer)
1939
Coach Eversmith
1934
Louie
1943
Jigger
1940
Marshal Willoughby
1934
Dutch
1937
Sgt. Ames
1951
Bill Stevens
1940
Captain Daly
1933
Albertson
1943
Spud Miller
1934
Sgt. Ames
1952
Sergeant McNulty
1949
Bancroft Baines
1956
Hutchins
1946
Eli Cressett
1949
Luke Thomas
1935
First Truck Driver
1936
Blinky Mack
1939
Bennett the Monroe Coach (uncredited)
1931
Spike Kenny
1945
Coach
1933
Fred Bunce
1942
Ben Moffitt
1942
'Brad' Martin
1937
Thresher
1933
Bull Lossomer
1941
Farmhand (uncredited)
1933
Swede Jannsen
1937
George Swallow
1950
Tony
1949
Sgt. Biff O'Hara
1991
Tony Garzoni
1938
Jake
1950
Buster Mussendorfer
1938
Tennessee
1936
Bob Lockhart
1934
1930
Sgt. 'Biff' O'Hara
1958