Joe Sawyer
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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.
Known for
Peter Gunn
The Abbott and Costello Show
Chopper
Surfside 6
Leon Huff
Sugarfoot
Fighting Sam Brown
Lock-Up
Sgt. McEvoy
Racket Squad
Harrigan and Son
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Ford Theatre
Everglades
Buckskin Frontier
Brannigan
Sergeant York
Sergeant Early
Brewster's Millions
Hacky Smith
Santa Fe Trail
Kitzmiller
The Killing
Mike O'Reilly
The Grapes of Wrath
Bookkeeper
North to Alaska
Land Commissioner
The Outlaw
Charley Woodruff
Gilda
Casey
They Died with Their Boots On
Sgt. Doolittle
How the West Was Won
Riverboat Officer (uncredited)
The Roaring Twenties
The Sergeant
The Public Enemy
Pool Player (uncredited)
Dark Command
Bushropp
Deadline - U.S.A.
Whitey Franks (uncredited)
The Petrified Forest
Jackie
Union Pacific
Shamus (uncredited)
A Double Life
Pete Bonner
The Walking Dead
'Trigger' Smith
The Informer
Bartly Mulholland
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Werner Renz
It Came from Outer Space
Frank Daylon
Hit the Ice
Buster
San Quentin
'Sailor Boy' Hansen
The Naughty Nineties
Bailey
Coroner Creek
Frank Yordy
You Can't Get Away with Murder
Red
The Long Voyage Home
Davis
Great Guy
Joe Burton
Melody Ranch
Jasper Wildhack
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
Karl Straeder
Black Legion
Cliff Summers
The Whole Town's Talking
Mannion's Thug (uncredited)
Belle Starr
John Cole
Riding Shotgun
Tom Biggert
The House Across the Bay
Charlie
Murder with Pictures
Inspector Tom Bacon
High Tension
Terry Madden
Big Brown Eyes
Jack Sully
The Case of the Howling Dog
Carl Trask (uncredited)
Blondie's Hero
Sergeant Gateson
Frontier Marshal
Curley Bill
I Stole a Million
Billings
Huddle
Slater
Special Agent
Rich - Chief Henchman
Broadway Gondolier
'Red'
If You Knew Susie
Zero Zantini
Ace of Aces
Captain Daly
Inside Information
Detective Grazzi
Red Skies of Montana
R. A. 'Pop' Miller
Jimmy the Gent
Mike (uncredited)
Christmas Eve
Private Detective
Tanks a Million
Sgt. William Ames
Big Town After Dark
Monk
Deadline at Dawn
Babe Dooley
Yanks Ahoy
Sgt. Ames
The Band Plays On
Mr. Thomas
The Flying Missile
Fuss Payne
Hold Your Man
Policeman at Reformatory (uncredited)
Fall In
Sgt. Ames
Arsène Lupin
Leroux (uncredited)
The Kettles in the Ozarks
Bancroft Baines
You're in the Army Now
Sergeant Madden
Indian Uprising
Sgt. Maj. Phineas T. Keogh
Taza, Son of Cochise
Sgt. Hamma
Hay Foot
Sergeant Ames
Prairie Chickens
Albertson
Lucky Cisco Kid
Bill Stevens
Down Mexico Way
Allen
College Humor
Tex Roust
Women Without Names
Principal Keeper Grimley
Tarzan's Revenge
Olaf Punch
Legends of the West
Curley Bill in 'Frontier Marshall'
Maker of Men
Bennett the Monroe Coach (uncredited)
The Notorious Sophie Lang
Building Guard (uncredited)
The Westerner
Bob Lockhart
Sundown Jim
Ben Moffitt
Navy Blues
Chips
Kazan
Sandz Jepson
The Accusing Finger
Father Reed, chaplain
Roses Are Red
Police Lt. Rocky Wall
As You Were
Sgt. Ames
The McGuerins from Brooklyn
Eddie Corbett
The Lady from Cheyenne
Sheriff 'Noisy' Burkett, Henchman
The Arizonian
Henchman Keeler
Wrecking Crew
Fred Bunce
Johnny Dark
Carl Svenson
Midnight Madonna
Wolfe
Raiders of Ghost City
Idaho Jones
Crash Donovan
Henchman (uncredited)
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
Jake
Brooklyn Orchid
Eddie Corbett
Comin' Round the Mountain
Kalem McCoy
A Son Comes Home
First Truck Driver
Eskimo
Sergeant Hunt (uncredited)
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
Frank Daylon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Looking for Trouble
Max Stanley
Little Big Shot
Doré's Henchman
Tornado
Charlie Muscles
Deputy Marshal
Eli Cressett
The Border Legion
Jim Gulden
Here Comes Trouble
Officer Ames
The Man from Montreal
Biff Anders (as Joseph Sawyer)
Frisco Kid
Slugs Crippen (as Joseph Sawyer)
Joe Palooka, Champ
Lefty
Alaska Highway
Roughhouse
Saturday's Millions
Coach
Death on the Diamond
"Dunc" Spencer
Sabotage
Gardner
About Face
Sgt. William Ames
Heart of the North
Red Crocker
Gridiron Flash
Coach Eversmith
Man of Iron
Crawford
And Baby Makes Three
Police officer
Sleepy Lagoon
Lumpy
The Stranger's Return
Thresher
The Singing Sheriff
Squint
The Storm
Kelly
The Country Doctor
Joe, the Logger Lifting Log (uncredited)
Son of a Sailor
Slug
Swamp Water
Hardy Ragan
The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin
Sgt. 'Biff' O'Hara
Sing and Like It
Gunner - Hood
College Coach
Holcomb
Slim
Windy Wilcox
Two in a Crowd
Bonelli's Henchman
Freshman Love
Coach Kendall
Down in San Diego
Dutch
The Lady and the Mob
Blinky Mack
Gambling Ship
Tony Garzoni
They Gave Him a Gun
Doyle - Gangster (uncredited)
And Sudden Death
Police Sgt. Sanborn
The Gay Amigo
Sergeant McNulty
Taxi, Mister
Eddie Corbett
Three-Cornered Moon
Head Lifeguard
South of Dixie
Ernest Hatcher
Hey, Rookie
Sergeant
Special Investigator
Jim Plummer
I Found Stella Parish
Chuck (as Joseph Sawyer)
Golden Harvest
Farmhand (uncredited)
Cowboy in Manhattan
Louie
Wildcat Bus
Burke
Fighting Father Dunne
Steve Davis
Moon Over Las Vegas
Joe
Fighting Back
Police Sergeant Scudder
Stagecoach Kid
Thatcher
Passport Husband
Duke Selton
Mr. Walkie Talkie
Sgt. Ames
Prescott Kid
Marshal Willoughby
The Traveling Saleswoman
Cactus Jack
G.I. War Brides
Sgt. Frank Moraski
Pride of the Marines
Tennessee
Half Past Midnight
Det. Lt. Joe Nash
High Powered
Spike Kenny
Stolen Heaven
Bako
College Rhythm
Spud Miller
The Leathernecks Have Landed
Sgt. Regan
Let's Face It
Sgt. Wiggins
The Untamed Breed
Hoy Keegan
The Lucky Stiff
Tony
Always in Trouble
Buster Mussendorfer
Last of the Duanes
Bull Lossomer
Rose Bowl
Announcer
Moonlight on the Prairie
Luke Thomas
The Runaround
Hutchins
King of the Lumberjacks
Jigger
Honeymoon Deferred
Detective James
Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West
Sgt. Biff O'Hara
Reported Missing
'Brad' Martin
Inside Job
Police Capt. Thomas
A Letter From Bataan
Roy - John's Brother-in-Law
Tucson
Tod Bryant
Car 99
Whitey, burly henchman
Behind the Criminal
Red Manders
A Dangerous Adventure
Dutch
Sequoia
Forest Ranger (uncredited)
The Lady Fights Back
Swede Jannsen
Campus Sweethearts
Operation Haylift
George Swallow