Joe Sawyer
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.
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- Peter Gunn (1958)
- Surfside 6 (1960) as Leon Huff
- Sugarfoot (1957) as Fighting Sam Brown
- Lock-Up (1959) as Sgt. McEvoy
- The Abbott and Costello Show (1952) as Chopper
- Racket Squad (1951)
- The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954)
- Ford Theatre (1948)
- Everglades (1961)
- The Killing (1956) as Mike O'Reilly
- How the West Was Won (1962) as Riverboat Officer (uncredited)
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940) as Bookkeeper
- Harrigan and Son (1960)
- Gilda (1946) as Casey
- Sergeant York (1941) as Sergeant Early
- North to Alaska (1960) as Land Commissioner
- The Outlaw (1943) as Charley Woodruff
- The Roaring Twenties (1939) as The Sergeant
- The Public Enemy (1931) as Pool Player (uncredited)
- They Died with Their Boots On (1941) as Sgt. Doolittle
- Belle Starr (1941) as John Cole
- The Walking Dead (1936) as 'Trigger' Smith
- It Came from Outer Space (1953) as Frank Daylon
- Santa Fe Trail (1940) as Kitzmiller