Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Acting
🎂 1899-04-25
From Wikipedia Guinn Terrell Williams Jr. (April 26, 1899 – June 6, 1962) was an American actor who appeared in memorable westerns such as Dodge City (1939), Santa Fe Trail (1940), and The Comancheros (1961). He was nicknamed "Big Boy" as he was 6' 2" and had a muscular build from years of working on ranches and playing semi-pro and professional baseball. Williams made his screen debut in the 1919 comedy, Almost A Husband, with Will Rogers and Cullen Landis, and was featured in a large supporting role ten years later in Frank Borzage's Lucky Star with Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. Throughout the 1920s Williams would have a string of successful films, mostly westerns. He then appeared in The Great Meadow alongside Johnny Mack Brown, which was Brown's breakout film. Throughout the 1930s, Williams acted in supporting roles, mostly in westerns, sports, or outdoor dramas. Although not the lead actor in any of them, he was always employed, and was successful as a supporting actor. He often played alongside Hoot Gibson and Harry Carey during that period. In 1941, he became one of many actors cast by Universal Pictures in their large film series, Riders of Death Valley. From the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, Williams appeared in supporting roles in a number of A-pictures, sometimes with high billing, such as You Only Live Once, and in Columbia's first Technicolour film The Desperadoes (1943). Williams was frequently teamed with Alan Hale, Sr. as sidekicks to Errol Flynn in several of his pictures. In 1960, he was cast in the epic film The Alamo and in Home from the Hill with Robert Mitchum. His last role was opposite his close friend John Wayne and Stuart Whitman in The Comancheros.
Cast credits(220)
Mike Forbes
1957
Calvin Bryngelson
1957
Tulsa Jack
1951
Prairie Dog
1955
Finnegan
1953
Jeff Bonsell
1957
Moose McKlintock
1957
Sgt. Muldoon
1954
Buffalo
1954
Groat
1955
1956
Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited)
1928
Sailaway
1942
Jeb Taylor
1955
Jones
1956
Posture Coach
1937
Windy Brody
1940
Rogers
1937
Ed McBain - Gunrunner (uncredited)
1961
Tex Baird
1939
Lt. 'Irish' Finn
1960
Hugh Macauley (uncredited)
1960
Al Wilson / Ham
1928
'Teddy' Bear
1944
Taxi
1938
Marblehead
1940
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1941
Sgt. Snow
1952
Nitro Rankin
1943
Pap Dennison (CSA)
1950
Teddy Bear
1944
Borax Bill
1941
Tall Tale
1954
Mike Cagle
1940
Motorcycle Cop
1938
Paddy Dolan
1940
Mick Marion
1948
Bourke Prine
1951
Matthews
1933
Ed Bronson (blacksmith)
1941
Kewpie Blain
1941
Reaper
1930
Danny Devlin
1937
Higgins
1934
Bud Dorson
1941
Sgt. Dudley
1935
Dance-Floor Manager
1934
Smitty
1952
Big Boy
1933
Moose McCarthy
1939
Lon Tuttle
1951
Blackie
1942
Fred Jasper
1956
Art Benson
1949
Kingford
1956
Billy Sweet
1939
Jerry Stone
1935
Sheriff Mervin Maitland
1944
CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith
1943
Fritzie
1933
Pvt. Archibald Allen
1954
Lefty
1932
Henry
1940
1923
Sgt. Martin Wrenn
1929
Mike Wurgerski
1938
Moose, Deputy
1954
Mr. Adle
1940
Steve Bromm (uncredited)
1932
Hollinger
1930
Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan
1937
Maxie
1939
Sleepy
1934
Champ
1945
Dopey
1937
Spud Harrigan
1944
Dick Berney
1931
Father of the Boys
1942
Elby Kirby
1957
Vulch McCreedy
1937
Red Fisk
1949
Bull Gumbatz
1940
Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited)
1919
Jones
1933
Tom Duncan
1935
Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams)
1927
Scratchface Henchman
1932
Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
1936
Mac
1932
Jeff
1935
An Attendant
1937
Luke Manning
1942
Sgt. Krims
1942
Big Boy
1946
Doughboy
1931
Bede Sanders
1936
'Softy' Blane
1938
Joseph Britt
1936
Dusty
1944
'Big Foot' - the wagon driver
1960
Chuck Brenner
1940
Alvin
1941
Big Boy Webster
1946
Jed Acker (as Big Boy Williams)
1947
Ross
1938
Slats (uncredited)
1934
Butch
1932
Rubin Hall
1931
Samson Smith
1939
Joe, the plumber
1927
Slug Cassidy
1937
'Tiny' Baldwin
1944
Small Potatoes
1950
Saddle Grease Williams
1948
Eric
1932
Butch McQuinn
1947
Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams)
1947
'Bull' Moran
1934
'Red' Cable
1936
Pete Jenkins
1936
Big Boy Stover
1946
1943
Buck Sawyer
1934
Cowboy
1927
Slim
1938
Seaman
1920
Big Boy Frazer
1946
Bull Morgan
1927
Bing
1932
Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal
1937
Panya Mankiewicz
1934
Mike
1937
Sandy Higgins
1933
Swimming Champion Joe Holt (uncredited)
1932
Sgt. Gibbons
1938
Salvation
1936
Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend
1935
1962
T-Bone
1939
Gunther Potts
1941
Blake - the First Mate
1939
Hank
1946
Lullaby Joslin
1935
Strangler Sullivan
1931
Connors
1932
Mars
1928
Larry Connell
1922
Ben Roberts
1935
Cecil Joseph Callahan
1936
1925
Jinx
1942
Joe Halsey
1928
Hal Walter
1926
Gunnery Sgt. Wilmer (as Guinn Williams)
1929
Edgar Prouty
1935
Big Boy
1945
Honey Smith
1929
Tucson Two-Gun Smith
1935
Red Giddings
1930
Bill 'Jellybean' Cook
1933
Big Boy Jackson
1947
Jim Lawson
1925
Jake Halley
1939
Duke Edwards
1937
Spike
1936
McLean
1927
Tiny Courtley
1930
1925
Conway (as Guinn Williams)
1939
Dick Mallory
1931
Zeke Winslow
1945
Cuth Stewart
1927
1925
Sweeney
1928
Happy Crofton
1938
Lars
1927
Big Boy Jackson
1945
Spike McGafferty
1935
Jeff
1937
Frank Stevens
1921
Jake Hardman
1940
Cyclone Jones
1923
Don White (as Big Boy Williams)
1927
Big Boy
1922
Bill Williams
1935
1922
The Foreman
1922
Bob Hildreth
1936
Henchman
1926
Haage
1936
Whistling Jim
1925
Ted Wright
1934
Detective Sweeney
1934
Bugsy McHugh
1934
Jack Stanley
1925
Cassidy
1956
Hairoil Johnson
1920
Juble Butler
1938
Andy Fowler
1922
Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams)
1925
Ed Holden
1927
English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)
1928
Silent Kerry
1922
1919
Bob Wilson
1935
Mike Donovan
1927
Billy Fargo
1921
1925
Tiger
1930
Tom Butler
1925
1923
Big Boy Bronson
1921
1923
Nat Sherwood
1924
Charles Taylor
1922
Dud Smiley
1922
Dan Carson
1924
1925
1923
The Cowboy
1925