10.0
10.0
The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin
1958
as Sgt. 'Biff' O'Hara
Joe Sawyer
Also known as: Joseph Sauers, Joseph Sawyer
Acting
Born:August 29, 1906
Died:April 21, 1982(aged 75)
Birthplace:Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Nationality:Canada
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (161 movies)
8.5
8.5
The Band Plays On
1934
as Mr. Thomas
8.0
8.0
The Singing Sheriff
1944
as Squint
7.6
7.6
The Killing
1956
as Mike O'Reilly
7.5
7.5
The Roaring Twenties
1939
as The Sergeant
7.5
7.5
If You Knew Susie
1948
as Zero Zantini
7.5
7.5
Gilda
1946
as Casey
7.3
7.3
Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West
1991
as Sgt. Biff O'Hara
7.2
7.2
Sergeant York
1941
as Sergeant Early
7.1
7.1
The Petrified Forest
1936
as Jackie
7.0
7.0
Sabotage
1939
as Gardner
7.0
7.0
Rose Bowl
1936
as Announcer
7.0
7.0
Death on the Diamond
1934
as "Dunc" Spencer
7.0
7.0
I Found Stella Parish
1935
as Chuck (as Joseph Sawyer)
6.8
6.8
Frisco Kid
1935
as Slugs Crippen (as Joseph Sawyer)
6.8
6.8
The Whole Town's Talking
1935
as Mannion's Thug (uncredited)
6.7
6.7
The Informer
1935
as Bartly Mulholland
6.7
6.7
Brewster's Millions
1945
as Hacky Smith
6.6
6.6
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
as Sgt. Doolittle
6.6
6.6
Huddle
1932
as Slater
6.6
6.6
The Naughty Nineties
1945
as Bailey
6.6
6.6
The Long Voyage Home
1940
as Davis
6.6
6.6
Black Legion
1937
as Cliff Summers
6.5
6.5
The Gay Amigo
1949
as Sergeant McNulty
6.5
6.5
North to Alaska
1960
as Land Commissioner
6.5
6.5
Eskimo
1933
as Sergeant Hunt (uncredited)
6.5
6.5
San Quentin
1937
as 'Sailor Boy' Hansen
6.4
6.4
The Kettles in the Ozarks
1956
as Bancroft Baines
6.3
6.3
Dark Command
1940
as Bushropp
6.3
6.3
It Came from Outer Space
1953
as Frank Daylon
6.3
6.3
Yanks Ahoy
1943
as Sgt. Ames
6.3
6.3
Jimmy the Gent
1934
as Mike (uncredited)
6.3
6.3
Swamp Water
1941
as Hardy Ragan
6.3
6.3
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
1950
as Jake
6.3
6.3
Big Brown Eyes
1936
as Jack Sully
6.3
6.3
Blondie's Hero
1950
as Sergeant Gateson
6.3
6.3
Slim
1937
as Windy Wilcox
6.3
6.3
A Double Life
1947
as Pete Bonner
6.3
6.3
The Lady and the Mob
1939
as Blinky Mack
6.2
6.2
The Walking Dead
1936
as 'Trigger' Smith
6.2
6.2
The Stranger's Return
1933
as Thresher
6.2
6.2
Looking for Trouble
1934
as Max Stanley
6.2
6.2
Indian Uprising
1952
as Sgt. Maj. Phineas T. Keogh
6.2
6.2
Special Agent
1935
as Rich - Chief Henchman
6.2
6.2
Frontier Marshal
1939
as Curley Bill
6.2
6.2
Great Guy
1936
as Joe Burton
6.1
6.1
Deadline at Dawn
1946
as Babe Dooley
6.1
6.1
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
1943
as Karl Straeder
6.1
6.1
Coroner Creek
1948
as Frank Yordy
6.0
6.0
Always in Trouble
1938
as Buster Mussendorfer
6.0
6.0
The Lady Fights Back
1937
as Swede Jannsen
6.0
6.0
Little Big Shot
1935
as Doré's Henchman
6.0
6.0
Pride of the Marines
1936
as Tennessee
6.0
6.0
Honeymoon Deferred
1940
as Detective James
6.0
6.0
About Face
1942
as Sgt. William Ames
6.0
6.0
Sequoia
1935
as Forest Ranger (uncredited)
6.0
6.0
Half Past Midnight
1948
as Det. Lt. Joe Nash
6.0
6.0
Tucson
1949
as Tod Bryant
6.0
6.0
The Runaround
1946
as Hutchins
6.0
6.0
Raiders of Ghost City
1944
as Idaho Jones
6.0
6.0
Man of Iron
1935
as Crawford
6.0
6.0
Buckskin Frontier
1943
as Brannigan
6.0
6.0
I Stole a Million
1939
as Billings
6.0
6.0
Fighting Father Dunne
1948
as Steve Davis
6.0
6.0
Last of the Duanes
1941
as Bull Lossomer
6.0
6.0
Brooklyn Orchid
1942
as Eddie Corbett
6.0
6.0
Hay Foot
1942
as Sergeant Ames
6.0
6.0
Fighting Back
1948
as Police Sergeant Scudder
6.0
6.0
Fall In
1942
as Sgt. Ames
6.0
6.0
Passport Husband
1938
as Duke Selton
6.0
6.0
Freshman Love
1936
as Coach Kendall
6.0
6.0
Stagecoach Kid
1949
as Thatcher
6.0
6.0
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939
as Werner Renz
5.9
5.9
Hit the Ice
1943
as Buster
5.8
5.8
Riding Shotgun
1954
as Tom Biggert
5.8
5.8
Melody Ranch
1940
as Jasper Wildhack
5.8
5.8
Comin' Round the Mountain
1951
as Kalem McCoy
5.7
5.7
Behind the Criminal
1937
as Red Manders
5.7
5.7
Santa Fe Trail
1940
as Kitzmiller
5.6
5.6
Deputy Marshal
1949
as Eli Cressett
5.6
5.6
Lucky Cisco Kid
1940
as Bill Stevens
5.6
5.6
Inside Job
1946
as Police Capt. Thomas
5.6
5.6
You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939
as Red
5.6
5.6
Belle Starr
1941
as John Cole
5.5
5.5
Wrecking Crew
1942
as Fred Bunce
5.5
5.5
The House Across the Bay
1940
as Charlie
5.5
5.5
Down in San Diego
1941
as Dutch
5.5
5.5
Roses Are Red
1947
as Police Lt. Rocky Wall
5.5
5.5
The McGuerins from Brooklyn
1942
as Eddie Corbett
5.5
5.5
Tornado
1943
as Charlie Muscles
5.5
5.5
Moonlight on the Prairie
1935
as Luke Thomas
5.5
5.5
Taza, Son of Cochise
1954
as Sgt. Hamma
5.4
5.4
High Tension
1936
as Terry Madden
5.4
5.4
The Outlaw
1943
as Charley Woodruff
5.4
5.4
Broadway Gondolier
1935
as 'Red'
5.3
5.3
Tanks a Million
1941
as Sgt. William Ames
5.3
5.3
College Humor
1933
as Tex Roust (as Joseph Sauers)
5.3
5.3
Ace of Aces
1933
as Captain Daly
5.2
5.2
Red Skies of Montana
1952
as R. A. 'Pop' Miller
5.2
5.2
Special Investigator
1936
as Jim Plummer
5.1
5.1
Murder with Pictures
1936
as Inspector Tom Bacon
5.1
5.1
Christmas Eve
1947
as Private Detective
5.0
5.0
Mr. Walkie Talkie
1952
as Sgt. Ames
5.0
5.0
Saturday's Millions
1933
as Coach
5.0
5.0
The Untamed Breed
1948
as Hoy Keegan
5.0
5.0
Car 99
1935
as Whitey, burly henchman
5.0
5.0
As You Were
1951
as Sgt. Ames
5.0
5.0
The Leathernecks Have Landed
1936
as Sgt. Regan
5.0
5.0
Alaska Highway
1943
as Roughhouse
5.0
5.0
High Powered
1945
as Spike Kenny
5.0
5.0
Johnny Dark
1954
as Carl Svenson
5.0
5.0
Navy Blues
1937
as Chips
4.9
4.9
Big Town After Dark
1947
as Monk
4.9
4.9
The Flying Missile
1950
as Fuss Payne
4.8
4.8
The Lucky Stiff
1949
as Tony
4.7
4.7
Wildcat Bus
1940
as Burke
4.7
4.7
The Accusing Finger
1936
as Father Regan, chaplain
4.7
4.7
College Rhythm
1934
as Spud Miller
4.6
4.6
Here Comes Trouble
1948
as Officer Ames
4.5
4.5
The Traveling Saleswoman
1950
as Cactus Jack
4.5
4.5
Let's Face It
1943
as Sgt. Wiggins
4.5
4.5
A Letter From Bataan
1942
as Roy - John's Brother-in-Law
4.4
4.4
The Border Legion
1940
as Jim Gulden
4.4
4.4
Tarzan's Revenge
1938
as Olaf Punch
4.1
4.1
College Coach
1933
as Holcomb
4.1
4.1
And Baby Makes Three
1949
as Police officer
4.0
4.0
Sleepy Lagoon
1943
as Lumpy
4.0
4.0
Sing and Like It
1934
as Gunner - Hood
4.0
4.0
You're in the Army Now
1941
as Sergeant Madden
3.8
3.8
The Man from Montreal
1939
as Biff Anders (as Joseph Sawyer)
3.7
3.7
Heart of the North
1938
as Red Crocker
3.6
3.6
Taxi, Mister
1943
as Eddie Corbett
3.3
3.3
Gridiron Flash
1934
as Coach Eversmith
3.0
3.0
Operation Haylift
1950
Producer
2.7
2.7
King of the Lumberjacks
1940
as Jigger
1.0
1.0
A Son Comes Home
1936
as First Truck Driver
1.0
1.0
A Dangerous Adventure
1937
as Dutch
Campus Sweethearts
1930
Legends of the West
1992
as Curley Bill in 'Frontier Marshall'
Inside Information
1939
as Detective Grazzi
G.I. War Brides
1946
as Sgt. Frank Moraski
The Arizonian
1935
as Henchman Keeler
Reported Missing
1937
as 'Brad' Martin
Two in a Crowd
1936
as Bonelli's Henchman
Moon Over Las Vegas
1944
as Joe
Prairie Chickens
1943
as Albertson
Down Mexico Way
1941
as Allen
Kazan
1949
as Sandz Jepson
Prescott Kid
1934
as Marshal Willoughby
Midnight Madonna
1937
as Wolfe
And Sudden Death
1936
as Police Sgt. Sanborn
Stolen Heaven
1938
as Bako
Gambling Ship
1938
as Tony Garzoni
Sundown Jim
1942
as Ben Moffitt
Hey, Rookie
1944
as Sergeant
The Storm
1938
as Kelly
South of Dixie
1944
as Ernest Hatcher
Cowboy in Manhattan
1943
as Louie
Joe Palooka, Champ
1946
as Lefty
The Westerner
1934
as Bob Lockhart
Maker of Men
1931
as Bennett the Monroe Coach (uncredited)
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