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