Joe Sawyer

Joe Sawyer

Birthday: Aug 29, 1906

Bio: Beefy, puffy-faced Canadian actor Joseph Sawyer spent his first years in films (the early- to mid-'30s) acting under his family name of Sauer. Before he developed his comic skills, Sawyer was often seen in roles calling for casual menace, such as the grinning gunman who introduces "Duke Mantee, the well-known killer" in The Petrified Forest (1936). While under… More Bio: Beefy, puffy-faced Canadian actor Joseph Sawyer spent his first years in films (the early- to mid-'30s) acting under his family name of Sauer. Before he developed his comic skills, Sawyer was often seen in roles calling for casual menace, such as the grinning gunman who introduces "Duke Mantee, the well-known killer" in The Petrified Forest (1936). While under contract to Hal Roach studios in the 1940s, Sawyer starred in several of Roach's "streamliners," films that ran approximately 45 minutes each. He co-starred with William Tracy in a series of films about a GI with a photographic memory and his bewildered topkick: Titles included Tanks a Million (1941), Fall In (1942), and Yanks Ahoy (1943) (he later reprised this role in a brace of B-pictures produced by Hal Roach Jr. for Lippert Films in 1951). A second "streamliner" series, concerning the misadventures of a pair of nouveau riche cabdrivers, teamed Sawyer with another Roach contractee, William Bendix. Baby boomers will remember Joe Sawyer for his 164-episode stint as tough but soft-hearted cavalry sergeant Biff O'Hara on the '50s TV series Rin Tin Tin. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Filmography

How the West Was Won (1962)
- Ship's Officer
- 100%
North to Alaska (1960)
- Land Commissioner
- 33%
The Killing (1956)
- Mike O'Reilly
- 97%
Kettles in the Ozarks (1956)
- Bancroft Baines
Riding Shotgun (1954)
- Tom Biggert
Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
- Sgt. Hamma
It Came from Outer Space (1953)
- Frank Daylon
- 81%
Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
- Whitey
Red Skies of Montana (1952)
- Pop Miller
Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)
- Kalem McCoy
Blondie's Hero (1950)
- Sergeant Gateson
Operation Haylift (1950)
- George Swallow
Stagecoach Kid (1949)
- Thatcher
Here Comes Trouble (1948)
- Ames
If You Knew Susie (1948)
- Zero Zantini
Coroner Creek (1948)
- Frank Yordy
Fighting Father Dunne (1948)
- Steve Davis
Big Town After Dark (1947)
- Monk
Roses Are Red (1947)
- Wall
Christmas Eve (Sinner's Holiday) (1947)
- Gimlet
A Double Life (1947)
- Pete Bonner
- 67%
Deadline at Dawn (1946)
- Babe Dooley
Gilda (1946)
- Casey
- 96%
The Naughty Nineties (1945)
- Bailey
Brewster's Millions (1945)
- Hacky Smith
Raiders of Ghost City (1944)
- Idaho Jones
Hey, Rookie (1944)
- Sergeant
Riders of Ghost City (1944)
- Actor
Tarzan's Desert Mystery, (Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan's Desert Mystery) (1943)
- Karl
Let's Face It (1943)
- Sgt. Wiggins
Alaska Highway (1943)
- Roughhouse
Hit the Ice (1943)
- Buster
The Outlaw (1943)
- Charley
- 89%
Howard Hughes: The Outlaw (1943)
- Actor
Tornado (1943)
- Charlie Boswell
Nostalgia World War II Video Library #4 (1943)
- Actor
Buckskin Frontier (1943)
- Brannigan
Hay Foot (1942)
- Actor
Two Mugs From Brooklyn (1942)
- Eddie Corbett
Wrecking Crew (1942)
- Fred Bunce
Sergeant York (1941)
- Sgt. Early
- 83%
Belle Starr (1941)
- John Cole
Swamp Water (1941)
- Hardy Ragan
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
- Sgt. Doolittle
- 82%
Tanks a Million (1941)
- Sgt. Ames
Down Mexico Way (1941)
- Allen
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
- Davis
- 100%
The Dark Command (1940)
- Bushropp
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
- Accountant
- 100%
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
- Kitzmiller
West of the Badlands (1940)
- Gulden
House Across the Bay (1940)
- Charlie
Gene Autry - Melody Ranch (1940)
- Jasper Wildhack
Union Pacific (1939)
- Shamus
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
- Renz
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
- Sgt. Jones
- 100%
Frontier Marshal (1939)
- Curly Bill
Tarzan's Revenge (1938)
- Olaf
San Quentin (1937)
- "Sailor Boy" Hansen
Slim (1937)
- Wilcox
They Gave Him a Gun (1937)
- Doyle
Black Legion (1937)
- Cliff Moore
The Great Guy (Pluck of the Irish) (1936)
- Joe Burton
Big Brown Eyes (1936)
- Jack Sully
The Walking Dead (1936)
- Trigger Smith
The Petrified Forest (1936)
- Jackie
- 100%
Last Outlaw (1936)
- Actor
High Tension (1936)
- Terry Madden
Frisco Kid (1935)
- Slugs Crippen
The Informer (1935)
- Actor
- 90%
The Whole Town's Talking (Passport to Fame) (1935)
- Mannion's Henchman
- 100%
Wings in the Dark (1935)
- Actor
Man on the Flying Trapeze (The Memory Expert) (1935)
- Ambulance Driver
Reckless (1935)
- Actor
I Found Stella Parish (1935)
- Chuck
Stamboul Quest (1934)
- German Officer
Jimmy the Gent (Always a Gent) (The Heir Chaser) (1934)
- Mike
Eskimo (1933)
- Actor
Three-Cornered Moon (1933)
- Swimming Pool Director
College Humor (1933)
- Tex Roust
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