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.
Acting
Movie
The Killing
as Mike O'Reilly
1956
Movie
The Grapes of Wrath
as Bookkeeper
1940
Movie
Gilda
as Casey
1946
Movie
How the West Was Won
as Riverboat Officer (uncredited)
1962
Movie
The Public Enemy
as Pool Player (uncredited)
1931
Movie
The Roaring Twenties
as The Sergeant
1939
Movie
It Came from Outer Space
as Frank Daylon
1953
Movie
Sergeant York
as Sergeant Early
1941
Movie
The Petrified Forest
as Jackie
1936
Movie
North to Alaska
as Land Commissioner
1960
Movie
The Informer
as Bartly Mulholland
1935
Movie
They Died with Their Boots On
as Sgt. Doolittle
1941
Movie
The Outlaw
as Charley Woodruff
1943
Movie
The Long Voyage Home
as Davis
1940
Movie
The Walking Dead
as 'Trigger' Smith
1936
Movie
A Double Life
as Pete Bonner
1947
Movie
Union Pacific
as Shamus (uncredited)
1939
Movie
Deadline - U.S.A.
as Whitey Franks (uncredited)
1952
Movie
Santa Fe Trail
as Kitzmiller
1940
Movie
The Whole Town's Talking
as Mannion's Thug (uncredited)
1935
Movie
Dark Command
as Bushropp
1940
Movie
Black Legion
as Cliff Summers
1937
Movie
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
as Karl Straeder
1943
Movie
Swamp Water
as Hardy Ragan
1941
