Joe Sawyer
Acting
Born: 1906-08-29 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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.
Known For
Peter Gunn
Surfside 6
Leon Huff
It Came from Outer Space
Frank Daylon
Sugarfoot
Fighting Sam Brown
Ford Theatre
The Abbott and Costello Show
Chopper
Lock-Up
Sgt. McEvoy
Racket Squad
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
The Grapes of Wrath
Bookkeeper
The Killing
Mike O'Reilly
Everglades
How the West Was Won
Riverboat Officer (uncredited)
The Informer
Bartly Mulholland
Gilda
Casey
Sergeant York
Sergeant Early
Harrigan and Son
North to Alaska
Land Commissioner
Stolen Heaven
Bako
The Naughty Nineties
Bailey
The Outlaw
Charley Woodruff
Belle Starr
John Cole
Union Pacific
Shamus (uncredited)
Passport Husband
Duke Selton
Deadline - U.S.A.
Whitey Franks (uncredited)
The Petrified Forest
Jackie
Slim
Windy Wilcox
About Face
Sgt. William Ames
Santa Fe Trail
Kitzmiller
Special Agent
Rich - Chief Henchman
They Died with Their Boots On
Sgt. Doolittle
The Long Voyage Home
Davis
Hit the Ice
Buster
The Public Enemy
Pool Player (uncredited)
Hay Foot
Sergeant Ames
Arsène Lupin
Leroux (uncredited)
Motor Madness
Steve Dolan
The Walking Dead
'Trigger' Smith
Huddle
Slater
Dark Command
Bushropp