Joe Sawyer
Actor
- Born
- August 29, 1906 · Guelph, Ontario, Canada
- Died
- April 21, 1982 (age 75)
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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.
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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
The Killing
June 6, 1956
The Grapes of Wrath
March 15, 1940
Gilda
April 25, 1946
How the West Was Won
November 2, 1962
The Public Enemy
April 23, 1931
The Roaring Twenties
October 28, 1939
It Came from Outer Space
June 5, 1953
Sergeant York
September 27, 1941
The Petrified Forest
February 8, 1936
North to Alaska
November 7, 1960
The Informer
May 9, 1935
They Died with Their Boots On
November 20, 1941
Acting182
- 1995Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey as Frank Daylon (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1992Legends of the West as Curley Bill in 'Frontier Marshall' (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1991Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West as Sgt. Biff O'Hara
- 1962How the West Was Won as Riverboat Officer (uncredited)
- 1960North to Alaska as Land Commissioner
- 1958The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin as Sgt. 'Biff' O'Hara
- 1956The Killing as Mike O'Reilly
- 1956The Kettles in the Ozarks as Bancroft Baines
- 1954Johnny Dark as Carl Svenson