Joe Sawyer

Joe Sawyer (born Joseph Sauer; 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.

Early life

Sawyer was born August 29, 1906, as Joseph Sauer in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. His parents were German. In his 20s he went to Los Angeles to pursue a career in films.

Career

Sawyer gained acting experience in the Pasadena Playhouse.

Popular roles that he portrayed included Sergeant Biff O'Hara in The Adventures of Rin-Tin-Tin, His interment was in Oregon.

Selected filmography

The Public Enemy (1931) as Pool player (uncredited) New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford (1931) as Willis the Newspaper Reporter (uncredited) Surrender (1931) as Sergeant Muller Maker of Men (1931) as Bennett the Monroe Coach (uncredited) Arsene Lupin (1932) as Leroux (uncredited) Shopworn (1932) as Construction Camp Worker (uncredited) Young Bride (1932) as Library Patron Seeking Aphrodite (uncredited) Huddle (1932) as Slater Forgotten Commandments (1932) as Ivan Ivanovitch Petroff (uncredited) Olsen's Big Moment (1933) as 'Dapper' Danny Reynolds Hold Your Man (1933) as Policeman at Reformatory (uncredited) College Humor (1933) as Tex Roust The Stranger's Return (1933) as Farmhand (uncredited) Three Cornered Moon (1933) as Swimming Pool Instructor (uncredited) Golden Harvest (1933) as Farmhand (uncredited) Saturday's Millions (1933) as Coach Ace of Aces (1933) as Capt. Daly College Coach (1933) as Holcomb Eskimo (1933) as Sergeant Hunt (uncredited) Blood Money (1933) as Red (uncredited) Jimmy and Sally (1933) as Slug Morgan (uncredited) Son of a Sailor (1933) as Slug (uncredited) Jimmy the Gent (1934) as Mike (uncredited) Wharf Angel (1934) as Sailor on 'The Coyote' (uncredited) Looking for Trouble (1934) as Henchman Max Stanley Sing and Like It (1934) as Gunner – Hood Stamboul Quest (1934) as Soldier Escorting Doktor (uncredited) The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934) as Building Guard (uncredited) Death on the Diamond (1934) as Spencer The Case of the Howling Dog (1934) as Carl Trask (uncredited) Against the Law (1934) as McManus (uncredited) Gridiron Flash (1934) as Coach Eversmith The Prescott Kid (1934) as Marshal Willoughby College Rhythm (1934) as Spud Miller (uncredited) Behold My Wife! (1934) as Morton (uncredited) The Westerner (1934) as Bob Lockhart The Band Plays On (1934) as Mr. Thomas Sequoia (1934) as Forest Ranger (uncredited) The Whole Town's Talking (1935) as Nick, Mannion's Henchman (uncredited) Car 99 (1935) as Whitey Eight Bells (1935) as Gates (uncredited) Air Hawks (1935) as Henchman (uncredited) The Informer (1935) as Barty Mulholland The Arizonian (1935) as Henchman Keeler Broadway Gondolier (1935) as 'Red' Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) as Ambulance Driver (uncredited) Little Big Shot (1935) as Doré's Henchman #1 Special Agent (1935) as Ned Rich Moonlight on the Prairie (1935) as Luke Thomas I Found Stella Parish (1935) as Chuck Frisco Kid (1935) as Slugs Crippen Man of Iron (1935) as Crawford Freshman Love (1936) as Coach Kendall The Petrified Forest (1936) as Jackie The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936) as Sgt. Regan The Walking Dead (1936) as Trigger Smith The Country Doctor (1936) as Joe, Logger lifting log (uncredited) Pride of the Marines (1936) as Tennessee Big Brown Eyes (1936) as Jack Sully Special Investigator (1936) as Jim 'Jimmy' Plummer And Sudden Death (1936) as Police Sgt. Sanborn High Tension (1936) as Terry Madden A Son Comes Home (1936) as First Truck Driver (uncredited) Crash Donovan (1936) as Henchman (uncredited) Murder with Pictures (1936) as Inspector Bacon Two in a Crowd (1936) as Bonelli's Henchman Rose Bowl (1936) as Announcer (uncredited) The Accusing Finger (1936) as Father Reed – the Priest Great Guy (1936) as Burton Black Legion (1937) as Cliff Moore Navy Blues (1937) as Chips Motor Madness (1937) as Steve Dolan They Gave Him a Gun (1937) as Doyle – Gangster (uncredited) San Quentin (1937) as 'Sailor Boy' Hansen Slim (1937) as Wilcox Midnight Madonna (1937) as Wolfe A Dangerous Adventure (1937) as Dutch Reported Missing (1937) as 'Brad' Martin The Lady Fights Back (1937) as Swede Jannsen Tarzan's Revenge (1938) as Olaf Punch Stolen Heaven (1938) as Bako Passport Husband (1938) as Duke Selton Always in Trouble (1938) as Buster Mussendorfer The Storm (1938) as Kelly – Wireless Operator Heart of the North (1938) as Red Crocker Gambling Ship (1938) as Tony Garzoni My Son Is a Criminal (1939) as Policeman (uncredited) You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939) as Red The Lady and the Mob (1939) as Blinky Mack Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) as Werner Renz Union Pacific (1939) as Shamus (uncredited) Inside Information (1939) as Detective Grazzi Frontier Marshal (1939) as Curley Bill I Stole a Million (1939) as Billings Rio (1939) as Prison Guard (uncredited) Sabotage (1939) as Gardner The Roaring Twenties (1939) as Sergeant Pete Jones Man from Montreal (1939) as Biff Anders The Grapes of Wrath (1940) as Keene Ranch foreman Honeymoon Deferred (1940) as Detective James The House Across the Bay (1940) as Charley Women Without Names (1940) as Principal Keeper Grimley (uncredited) Dark Command (1940) as Bushropp King of the Lumberjacks (1940) as Jigger, a Lumberjack Lucky Cisco Kid (1940) as Bill Stevens Wildcat Bus (1940) as Burke The Long Voyage Home (1940) as Davis Melody Ranch (1940) as Jasper Wildhack The Border Legion (1940) as Jim Gulden Santa Fe Trail (1940) as Kitzmiller The Lady from Cheyenne (1941) as Sheriff 'Noisy' Burkett, Henchman (uncredited) Sergeant York (1941) as Sergeant Early Down in San Diego (1941) as Dutch Belle Starr (1941) as John Cole Tanks a Million (1941) as Sgt. William Ames Last of the Duanes (1941) as Bull Lossomer Down Mexico Way (1941) as Allen Swamp Water (1941) as Hardy Ragan They Died with Their Boots On (1941) as Sergeant Doolittle You're in the Army Now (1941) as Sergeant Madden Hay Foot (1942) as Sergeant Ames Brooklyn Orchid (1942) as Eddie Corbett Sundown Jim (1942) as Ben Moffitt Wrecking Crew (1942) as Fred Bunce Fall In (1942) as Sgt. William Ames The McGuerins from Brooklyn (1942) as Eddie Corbett The Outlaw (1943) as Charley Woodruff Prairie Chickens (1943) as Albertson Taxi, Mister (1943) as Eddie Corbett Buckskin Frontier (1943) as Brannigan Cowboy in Manhattan (1943) as Louie Hit the Ice (1943) as Buster Alaska Highway (1943) as Roughhouse Yanks Ahoy (1943) as Sgt. Ames Let's Face It (1943) as Sergeant Wiggins Sleepy Lagoon (1943) as Lumpy Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943) as Karl Straeder Tornado (1943) as Charlie Boswell Moon Over Las Vegas (1944) as Joe Hey, Rookie (1944) as Sergeant South of Dixie (1944) as Ernest Hatcher Raiders of Ghost City (1944) as Idaho Jones The Singing Sheriff (1944) as Squint High Powered (1945) as Spike Kenny Brewster's Millions (1945) as Hacky Smith The Naughty Nineties (1945) as Bailey Deadline at Dawn (1946) as Babe Dooley Gilda (1946) as Casey Joe Palooka, Champ (1946) as Lefty The Runaround (1946) as Hutchins Inside Job (1946) as Police Capt. Thomas G.I. War Brides (1946) as Sgt. Frank Moraski Christmas Eve (1947) as Private Detective Gimlet Roses Are Red (1947) as Police Lt. Rocky Wall Big Town After Dark (1947) as Monk A Double Life (1947) as Det. Pete Bonner If You Knew Susie (1948) as Zero Zantini Here Comes Trouble (1948) as Officer Ames Half Past Midnight (1948) as Det. Lt. Joe Nash Fighting Father Dunne (1948) as Steve Davis Coroner Creek (1948) as Frank Yordy Fighting Back (1948) as Police Sgt. Scudder The Untamed Breed (1948) as Hoy Keegan Two Knights from Brooklyn (1949) as Eddie Corbett (archive footage) The Lucky Stiff (1949) as Tony Kazan (1949) Tucson (1949) as Tod Bryant The Gay Amigo (1949) as Sergeant McNulty Stagecoach Kid (1949) as Thatcher Pinky (1949) as Sandz Jepson Deputy Marshall (1949) as Eli Cressett / Colt Redwood And Baby Makes Three (1949) as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited) The Traveling Saleswoman (1950) as Cactus Jack Blondie's Hero (1950) as Sgt. Gateson Operation Haylift (1950) as George Swallow Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950) as Jake The Flying Missile (1950) as Quartermaster 'Fuss' Payne Pride of Maryland (1951) as Knuckles Comin' Round the Mountain (1951) as Kalem McCoy As You Were (1952) as Sgt. Ames Indian Uprising (1952) as Sgt. Maj. Phineas T. Keogh Red Skies of Montana (1952) as R.A. (Pop) Miller Deadline – U.S.A. (1952) as Whitey Franks (uncredited) Mr. Walkie Talkie (1952) as Sgt. Ames It Came from Outer Space (1953) as Frank Daylon Taza, Son of Cochise (1954) as Sgt. Hamma Riding Shotgun (1954) as Tom Biggert Johnny Dark (1954) as Carl Svenson The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956) as Bancroft Baines The Killing (1956) as Mike O'Reilly The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin (1958) as Sgt. 'Biff' O'Hara New Comedy Showcase (TV series, 1960, Season 1 Episode 7 "Maisie") as Master Sergeant Blackenhorn North to Alaska (1960) as Land Commissioner How the West Was Won (1962) as Riverboat Officer (uncredited)