Joe Sawyer
Acting
Born: 1906-08-29 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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.
Known For
The Killing
Mike O'Reilly
The Grapes of Wrath
Bookkeeper
Gilda
Casey
How the West Was Won
Riverboat Officer (uncredited)
The Public Enemy
Pool Player (uncredited)
The Roaring Twenties
The Sergeant
It Came from Outer Space
Frank Daylon
Sergeant York
Sergeant Early
The Petrified Forest
Jackie
North to Alaska
Land Commissioner
The Informer
Bartly Mulholland
They Died with Their Boots On
Sgt. Doolittle
The Outlaw
Charley Woodruff
The Long Voyage Home
Davis
The Walking Dead
'Trigger' Smith
A Double Life
Pete Bonner
Deadline - U.S.A.
Whitey Franks (uncredited)
Union Pacific
Shamus (uncredited)
Santa Fe Trail
Kitzmiller
The Whole Town's Talking
Mannion's Thug (uncredited)
Dark Command
Bushropp
Black Legion
Cliff Summers
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
Karl Straeder
Swamp Water
Hardy Ragan
The Stranger's Return
Thresher
Deadline at Dawn
Babe Dooley
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Werner Renz
The Naughty Nineties
Bailey
Jimmy the Gent
Mike (uncredited)
San Quentin
'Sailor Boy' Hansen
Hit the Ice
Buster
Coroner Creek
Frank Yordy
Big Brown Eyes
Jack Sully
Riding Shotgun
Tom Biggert
Brewster's Millions
Hacky Smith
Frontier Marshal
Curley Bill
Taza, Son of Cochise
Sgt. Hamma
You Can't Get Away with Murder
Red
Peter Gunn
Comin' Round the Mountain
Kalem McCoy