Joe Sawyer
ActingAlso Known As
Joe Sauers, Joe Sauer, Joseph Sauers, Joseph Sawyer
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.
Movies
(181 total)
The Killing
as Mike O'Reilly
The Grapes of Wrath
as Bookkeeper
Gilda
as Casey
How the West Was Won
as Riverboat Officer (uncredited)
The Public Enemy
as Pool Player (uncredited)
The Roaring Twenties
as The Sergeant
It Came from Outer Space
as Frank Daylon
Sergeant York
as Sergeant Early
The Petrified Forest
as Jackie
North to Alaska
as Land Commissioner
The Informer
as Bartly Mulholland
They Died with Their Boots On
as Sgt. Doolittle
The Outlaw
as Charley Woodruff
The Long Voyage Home
as Davis
The Walking Dead
as 'Trigger' Smith
A Double Life
as Pete Bonner
Union Pacific
as Shamus (uncredited)
Deadline - U.S.A.
as Whitey Franks (uncredited)
Santa Fe Trail
as Kitzmiller
The Whole Town's Talking
as Mannion's Thug (uncredited)
TV Shows
(10 total)
The Abbott and Costello Show
as Chopper
Lock-Up
as Sgt. McEvoy
Sugarfoot
as Fighting Sam Brown
Surfside 6
as Leon Huff
