Birthday
1906/08/29
Day of death
1982/04/21 (75 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Also know as
Joe Sauers, Joe Sauer, Joseph Sauers, Joseph Sawyer
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 po...Read more
(1956) The Killing
as Mike O'Reilly
(1940) The Grapes of Wrath
as Bookkeeper
(1940) Santa Fe Trail
as Kitzmiller
(1946) Gilda
as Casey
(1950) Blondie's Hero
as Sergeant Gateson
(1943) The Outlaw
as Charley Woodruff
(1945) The Naughty Nineties
as Bailey
(1936) The Walking Dead
as 'Trigger' Smith
(1951) Comin' Round the Mountain
as Kalem McCoy
(1943) Hit the Ice
as Buster
(1946) Deadline at Dawn
as Babe Dooley
(1947) A Double Life
as Pete Bonner
(1934) Prescott Kid
as Marshal Willoughby
(1937) Black Legion
as Cliff Summers
(1948) Coroner Creek
as Frank Yordy
(1945) Brewster's Millions
as Hacky Smith
(1939) The Roaring Twenties
as The Sergeant
(1944) The Singing Sheriff
as Squint
(1935) The Informer
as Bartly Mulholland
(1940) The House Across the Bay
as Charlie
(1949) Kazan
as Sandz Jepson
(1941) Sergeant York
as Sergeant Early
(1939) I Stole a Million
as Billings
(1941) They Died with Their Boots On
as Sgt. Doolittle
(1936) The Petrified Forest
as Jackie
(1962) How the West Was Won
as Riverboat Officer (uncredited)
(1953) It Came from Outer Space
as Frank Daylon
(1935) Special Agent
as Rich - Chief Henchman
(1940) The Border Legion
as Jim Gulden
(1941) Belle Starr
as John Cole
(1943) Tarzan's Desert Mystery
as Karl Straeder
(1956) The Kettles in the Ozarks
as Bancroft Baines
(1991) Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West
as Sgt. Biff O'Hara
(1942) Brooklyn Orchid
as Eddie Corbett
(1942) Hay Foot
as Sergeant Ames
(1936) Special Investigator
as Jim Plummer
(1936) The Leathernecks Have Landed
as Sgt. Regan
(1935) Little Big Shot
as Doré's Henchman
(1942) About Face
as Sgt. William Ames
(1944) Raiders of Ghost City
as Idaho Jones
(1946) The Runaround
as Hutchins
(1939) Inside Information
as Detective Grazzi
(1936) The Accusing Finger
as Father Reed, chaplain
(1952) Red Skies of Montana
as R. A. 'Pop' Miller
(1933) Eskimo
as Sergeant Hunt (uncredited)
(1943) Buckskin Frontier
as Brannigan
(1992) Legends of the West
as Curley Bill in 'Frontier Marshall'
(1939) Frontier Marshal
as Curley Bill
(1937) Behind the Criminal
as Red Manders
(1947) Roses Are Red
as Police Lt. Rocky Wall
(1941) Down Mexico Way
as Allen
(1935) Frisco Kid
as Slugs Crippen (as Joseph Sawyer)
(1949) The Lucky Stiff
as Tony
(1948) Half Past Midnight
as Det. Lt. Joe Nash
(1940) Lucky Cisco Kid
as Bill Stevens
(1942) The McGuerins from Brooklyn
as Eddie Corbett
(1943) Taxi, Mister
as Eddie Corbett
(1947) Big Town After Dark
as Monk
(1948) Here Comes Trouble
as Officer Ames
(1995) Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
as Frank Daylon (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1933) College Humor
as Tex Roust
(1938) Stolen Heaven
as Bako
(1936) Murder with Pictures
as Inspector Tom Bacon
(1950) Operation Haylift
as George Swallow
(1934) Sing and Like it
as Gunner - Hood
(1943) Tornado
as Charlie Muscles
(1935) Moonlight on the Prairie
as Luke Thomas
(1940) Wildcat Bus
as Burke
(1950) Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
as Jake
(1942) Fall In
as Sgt. Ames
(1951) As You Were
as Sgt. Ames
(1952) Mr. Walkie Talkie
as Sgt. Ames
(1937) Navy Blues
as Chips
(1950) The Flying Missile
as Fuss Payne
(1949) Deputy Marshal
as Eli Cressett
(1935) Car 99
as Whitey, burly henchman
(1938) Always in Trouble
as Buster Mussendorfer
(1934) Gridiron Flash
as Coach Eversmith
(1952) Indian Uprising
as Sgt. Maj. Phineas T. Keogh
(1934) The Case of the Howling Dog
as Carl Trask (uncredited)
(1931) Maker of Men
as Bennett the Monroe Coach (uncredited)
(1934) Jimmy the Gent
as Mike (uncredited)
(1948) Fighting Father Dunne
as Steve Davis
(1936) Big Brown Eyes
as Jack Sully
(1948) If You Knew Susie
as Zero Zantini
(1937) The Lady Fights Back
as Swede Jannsen
(1938) Passport Husband
as Duke Selton
(1934) Looking for Trouble
as Max Stanley
(1947) Christmas Eve
as Private Detective
(1943) Yanks Ahoy
as Sgt. Ames
(1937) Reported Missing
as 'Brad' Martin
(1936) Two in a Crowd
as Bonelli's Henchman
(1936) Rose Bowl
as Announcer
(1948) Fighting Back
as Police Sergeant Scudder
(1934) The Bands Plays On
as Mr. Thomas
(1937) They Gave Him a Gun
as Doyle - Gangster (uncredited)
(1933) The Stranger's Return
as Thresher
(1935) Broadway Gondolier
as 'Red'
(1941) Last of the Duanes
as Bull Lossomer
(1933) Ace of Aces
as Captain Daly
(1938) Tarzan's Revenge
as Olaf Punch
(1940) King of the Lumberjacks
as Jigger
(1939) The Lady and the Mob
as Blinky Mack
(1943) Alaska Highway
as Roughhouse
(1943) Prairie Chickens
as Albertson
(1939) Union Pacific
as Shamus (uncredited)
(1939) Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as Werner Renz
(1942) A Letter From Bataan
as Roy - John's Brother-in-Law
(1944) Moon Over Las Vegas
as Joe
(1945) High Powered
as Spike Kenny
(1950) The Traveling Saleswoman
as Cactus Jack
(1938) Heart of the North
as Red Crocker
(1935) Man of Iron
as Crawford
(1936) A Son Comes Home
as First Truck Driver
(1936) The Country Doctor
as Joe, the Logger Lifting Log (uncredited)
(1946) G.I. War Brides
as Sgt. Frank Moraski
(1933) Son of a Sailor
as Slug
(1948) The Untamed Breed
as Hoy Keegan
(1936) High Tension
as Terry Madden
(1936) Great Guy
as Joe Burton
(1937) A Dangerous Adventure
as Dutch
(1949) Tucson
as Tod Bryant
(1941) Tanks a Million
as Sgt. William Ames
(1949) The Gay Amigo
as Sergeant McNulty
(1949) And Baby Makes Three
as Police officer
(1941) The Lady from Cheyenne
as Sheriff 'Noisy' Burkett, Henchman
(1940) Dark Command
as Bushropp
(1949) Stagecoach Kid
as Thatcher
(1946) Inside Job
as Police Capt. Thomas
(1938) Gambling Ship
as Tony Garzoni
(1933) Three-Cornered Moon
as Head Lifeguard
(1932) Huddle
as Slater
(1935) The Arizonian
as Henchman Keeler
(1936) Freshman Love
as Coach Kendall
(1937) San Quentin
as 'Sailor Boy' Hansen
(1940) The Long Voyage Home
as Davis
(1941) Swamp Water
as Hardy Ragan
(1933) College Coach
as Holcomb
(1935) Sequoia
as Forest Ranger (uncredited)
(1940) Melody Ranch
as Jasper Wildhack
(1940) Women Without Names
as Principal Keeper Grimley
(1941) You're in the Army Now
as Sergeant Madden
(1954) Johnny Dark
as Carl Svenson
(1936) And Sudden Death
as Police Sgt. Sanborn
(1943) Let's Face It
as Sgt. Wiggins
(1939) Sabotage
as Gardner
(1942) Sundown Jim
as Ben Moffitt
(1941) Down in San Diego
as Dutch
(1933) Golden Harvest
as Farmhand (uncredited)
(1954) Riding Shotgun
as Tom Biggert
(1958) The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin
as Sgt. 'Biff' O'Hara
(1960) North to Alaska
as Land Commissioner
(1934) Death on the Diamond
as "Dunc" Spencer
(1944) Hey, Rookie
as Sergeant
(1940) Honeymoon Deferred
as Detective James
(1933) Saturday's Millions
as Coach
(1938) The Storm
as Kelly
(1954) Taza, Son of Cochise
as Sgt. Hamma
(1942) Wrecking Crew
as Fred Bunce
(1943) Cowboy in Manhattan
as Louie
(1952) Deadline - U.S.A.
as Whitey Franks (uncredited)
(1937) Midnight Madonna
as Wolfe
(1935) The Whole Town's Talking
as Mannion's Thug (uncredited)
(1931) The Public Enemy
as Pool Player (uncredited)
(1932) Arsène Lupin
as Leroux (uncredited)
(1934) College Rhythm
as Spud Miller
(1946) Joe Palooka, Champ
as Lefty
(1936) Crash Donovan
as Henchman (uncredited)
(1936) Pride of the Marines
as Tennessee
(1944) South of Dixie
as Ernest Hatcher
(1943) Sleepy Lagoon
as Lumpy
(1939) You Can't Get Away with Murder
as Red
(1939) The Man from Montreal
as Biff Anders (as Joseph Sawyer)
(1935) I Found Stella Parish
as Chuck (as Joseph Sawyer)
(1934) The Westerner
as Bob Lockhart
(1934) The Notorious Sophie Lang
as Building Guard (uncredited)
(1933) Hold Your Man
as Policeman at Reformatory (uncredited)
(1960) Surfside 6
as Leon Huff
(1961) Everglades
as ---
(1958) Peter Gunn
as ---
(1948) Ford Theatre
as ---
(1954) The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
as ---
(1959) Lock-Up
as ---
(1957) Sugarfoot
as Fighting Sam Brown
(1951) Racket Squad
as ---
(1960) Harrigan and Son
as ---