Joe Sawyer
Actor
Biography
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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.
Filmography
The Grapes of Wrath
as Bookkeeper 1940
Gilda
as Casey 1946
How the West Was Won
as Riverboat Officer (uncredited) 1962
The Public Enemy
as Pool Player (uncredited) 1931
The Roaring Twenties
as The Sergeant 1939
It Came from Outer Space
as Frank Daylon 1953
Sergeant York
as Sergeant Early 1941
The Petrified Forest
as Jackie 1936
North to Alaska
as Land Commissioner 1960
They Died with Their Boots On
as Sgt. Doolittle 1941
The Informer
as Bartly Mulholland 1935
The Outlaw
as Charley Woodruff 1943
The Walking Dead
as 'Trigger' Smith 1936
The Long Voyage Home
as Davis 1940
A Double Life
as Pete Bonner 1947
Union Pacific
as Shamus (uncredited) 1939