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25 Apr 1899
6 Jun 1962 (63)
Decatur, Texas, USA
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
From Wikipedia Guinn Terrell Williams Jr. (April 26, 1899 – June 6, 1962) was an American actor who appeared in memorable westerns such as Dodge City (1939), Santa Fe Trail (1940), and The Comancheros (1961). He was nicknamed "Big Boy" as he was 6' 2" and had a muscular build from years of working on ranches and playing semi-pro and professional baseball. Williams made his screen debut in the 1919 comedy, Almost A Husband, with Will Rogers and Cullen Landis, and was featured in a large supporting role ten years later in Frank Borzage's Lucky Star with Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. Throughout the 1920s Williams would have a string of successful films, mostly westerns. He then appeared in The Great Meadow alongside Johnny Mack Brown, which was Brown's breakout film. Throughout the 1930s, Williams acted in supporting roles, mostly in westerns, sports, or outdoor dramas. Although not the lead actor in any of them, he was always employed, and was successful as a supporting actor. He often played alongside Hoot Gibson and Harry Carey during that period. In 1941, he became one of many actors cast by Universal Pictures in their large film series, Riders of Death Valley. From the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, Williams appeared in supporting roles in a number of A-pictures, sometimes with high billing, such as You Only Live Once, and in Columbia's first Technicolour film The Desperadoes (1943). Williams was frequently teamed with Alan Hale, Sr. as sidekicks to Errol Flynn in several of his pictures. In 1960, he was cast in the epic film The Alamo and in Home from the Hill with Robert Mitchum. His last role was opposite his close friend John Wayne and Stuart Whitman in The Comancheros.
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1962 | Buttons and Her Beaus | |
1961 | The Comancheros | Ed McBain - Gunrunner (uncredited) |
1960 | The Alamo | Lt. 'Irish' Finn |
1960 | Home from the Hill | Hugh Macauley (uncredited) |
1960 | Five Bold Women | 'Big Foot' - the wagon driver |
1957 | Wagon Train | Calvin Bryngelson |
1957 | Tales of Wells Fargo | Mike Forbes |
1957 | The Hired Gun | Elby Kirby |
1957 | Sugarfoot | Moose McKlintock |
1957 | The Restless Gun | Jeff Bonsell |
1956 | Man from Del Rio | Fred Jasper |
1956 | Hidden Guns | Kingford |
1956 | Circus Boy | |
1956 | U.S. Marshall | Jones |
1956 | Fremont: The Trailblazer | Cassidy |
1955 | Gunsmoke | Groat |
1955 | Cheyenne | Prairie Dog |
1955 | My Friend Flicka | Jeb Taylor |
1954 | The Wonderful World of Disney | Buffalo |
1954 | The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin | Sgt. Muldoon |
1954 | Southwest Passage | Tall Tale |
1954 | Massacre Canyon | Pvt. Archibald Allen |
1954 | The Outlaw's Daughter | Moose, Deputy |
1953 | The Life Of Riley | Finnegan |
1952 | Springfield Rifle | Sgt. Snow |
1952 | Hangman's Knot | Smitty |
1951 | Man in the Saddle | Bourke Prine |
1951 | The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok | Tulsa Jack |
1951 | Al Jennings of Oklahoma | Lon Tuttle |
1950 | Rocky Mountain | Pap Dennison (CSA) |
1950 | Hoedown | Small Potatoes |
1949 | Bad Men of Tombstone | Red Fisk |
1949 | Brimstone | Art Benson |
1948 | Station West | Mick Marion |
1948 | Smoky Mountain Melody | Saddle Grease Williams |
1947 | Road to the Big House | Butch McQuinn |
1947 | Smoky River Serenade | Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams) |
1947 | King of the Wild Horses | Jed Acker (as Big Boy Williams) |
1947 | Over the Santa Fe Trail | Big Boy Jackson |
1946 | That Texas Jamboree | Big Boy Frazer |
1946 | Singing on the Trail | Big Boy Webster |
1946 | Throw a Saddle on a Star | Big Boy |
1946 | Cowboy Blues | Big Boy Stover |
1946 | Singin' in the Corn | Hank |
1945 | The Man Who Walked Alone | Champ |
1945 | Song of the Prairie | Big Boy Jackson |
1945 | Sing Me a Song of Texas | Big Boy |
1945 | Rhythm Round-Up | Zeke Winslow |
1944 | Belle of the Yukon | Sheriff Mervin Maitland |
1944 | Hands Across the Border | Teddy Bear |
1944 | Nevada | Dusty |
1944 | Cowboy and the Senorita | 'Teddy' Bear |
1944 | Swing in the Saddle | 'Tiny' Baldwin |
1944 | Cowboy Canteen | Spud Harrigan |
1943 | The Desperadoes | Nitro Rankin |
1943 | Minesweeper | CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith |
1943 | Stars on Horseback | |
1942 | Mr. Wise Guy | Luke Manning |
1942 | Silver Queen | Blackie |
1942 | American Empire | Sailaway |
1942 | The Bugle Sounds | Sgt. Krims |
1942 | Between Us Girls | Father of the Boys |
1942 | Lure of the Islands | Jinx |
1941 | You'll Never Get Rich | Kewpie Blain |
1941 | Swamp Water | Bud Dorson |
1941 | Mr. Bug Goes to Town | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
1941 | Billy the Kid | Ed Bronson (blacksmith) |
1941 | Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga | Alvin |
1941 | Riders of Death Valley | Borax Bill |
1941 | Country Fair | Gunther Potts |
1940 | Santa Fe Trail | Windy Brody |
1940 | Virginia City | Marblehead |
1940 | The Fighting 69th | Paddy Dolan |
1940 | Castle on the Hudson | Mike Cagle |
1940 | Dulcy | Henry |
1940 | Money and the Woman | Mr. Adle |
1940 | Wagons Westward | Jake Hardman |
1940 | Alias the Deacon | Bull Gumbatz |
1940 | Pleased to Mitt You | Chuck Brenner |
1939 | Dodge City | Tex Baird |
1939 | Blackmail | Moose McCarthy |
1939 | 6,000 Enemies | Maxie |
1939 | Bad Lands | Billy Sweet |
1939 | Legion of Lost Flyers | Jake Halley |
1939 | Fugitive at Large | Conway (as Guinn Williams) |
1939 | Street of Missing Men | T-Bone |
1939 | Mutiny on the Blackhawk | Blake - the First Mate |
1939 | Pardon Our Nerve | Samson Smith |
1938 | You and Me | Text (as Guinn Williams) |
1938 | Hold That Co-ed | Mike Wurgerski |
1938 | Professor Beware | Motorcycle Cop |
1938 | I Demand Payment | Happy Crofton |
1938 | Army Girl | Ross |
1938 | Everybody's Doing It | 'Softy' Blane |
1938 | Down in 'Arkansaw' | Juble Butler |
1938 | Crashing Through Danger | Slim |
1938 | The Marines Are Here | Sgt. Gibbons |
1937 | A Star Is Born | Posture Coach |
1937 | You Only Live Once | Rogers |
1937 | Wise Girl | Mike |
1937 | Big City | Danny Devlin |
1937 | My Dear Miss Aldrich | An Attendant |
1937 | The Singing Marine | Dopey |
1937 | Girls Can Play | Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan |
1937 | The Bad Man of Brimstone | Vulch McCreedy |
1937 | Flying Fists | Slug Cassidy |
1937 | Dangerous Holiday | Duke Edwards |
1937 | She's No Lady | Jeff |
1937 | Don't Tell the Wife | Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal |
1936 | The Big Game | Pete Jenkins |
1936 | Muss 'em Up | 'Red' Cable |
1936 | Kelly the Second | Cecil Joseph Callahan |
1936 | Love on a Bet | Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted) |
1936 | End of the Trail | Bob Hildreth |
1936 | Career Woman | Bede Sanders |
1936 | Grand Jury | Joseph Britt |
1936 | The Vigilantes Are Coming | Salvation |
1936 | North of Nome | Haage |
1936 | The Champ's a Chump | Spike |
1935 | The Littlest Rebel | Sgt. Dudley |
1935 | The Glass Key | Jeff |
1935 | Private Worlds | Jerry Stone |
1935 | Here Comes Cookie | Big Boy |
1935 | The Law of 45's | Tucson Two-Gun Smith |
1935 | Big Boy Rides Again | Tom Duncan |
1935 | Miss Pacific Fleet | Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend |
1935 | One in a Million | Spike McGafferty |
1935 | Gun Play | Bill Williams |
1935 | Village Tale | Ben Roberts |
1935 | Society Fever | Edgar Prouty |
1935 | Danger Trails | Bob Wilson |
1935 | Powdersmoke Range | Lullaby Joslin |
1934 | Here Comes the Navy | Dance-Floor Manager |
1934 | Flirtation Walk | Sleepy |
1934 | Palooka | Slats (uncredited) |
1934 | The Silver Streak | Higgins |
1934 | Cowboy Holiday | Buck Sawyer |
1934 | Thunder Over Texas | Ted Wright |
1934 | The Undie-World | Bugsy McHugh |
1934 | Cheaters | Detective Sweeney |
1934 | Half a Sinner | 'Bull' Moran |
1934 | Romance in the Rain | Panya Mankiewicz |
1933 | Rafter Romance | Fritzie |
1933 | College Coach | Matthews |
1933 | The Phantom Broadcast | Sandy Higgins |
1933 | Man of the Forest | Big Boy |
1933 | Laughing at Life | Jones |
1933 | The Mystery Squadron | Bill 'Jellybean' Cook |
1932 | Polly of the Circus | Eric |
1932 | Ladies of the Jury | Steve Bromm (uncredited) |
1932 | The Devil Is Driving | Mac |
1932 | You Said a Mouthful | Swimming Champion Joe Holt (uncredited) |
1932 | 70,000 Witnesses | Connors |
1932 | Heritage of the Desert | Lefty |
1932 | Running Hollywood | Scratchface Henchman |
1932 | Drifting Souls | Bing |
1932 | Boys Will Be Boys | Butch |
1931 | The Phantom | Dick Mallory |
1931 | The Bachelor Father | Dick Berney |
1931 | The Great Meadow | Rubin Hall |
1931 | Catch-As Catch-Can | Strangler Sullivan |
1931 | War Mamas | Doughboy |
1930 | City Girl | Reaper |
1930 | Liliom | Hollinger |
1930 | The Big Fight | Tiger |
1930 | College Lovers | Tiny Courtley |
1930 | The Bad Man | Red Giddings |
1929 | Lucky Star | Sgt. Martin Wrenn |
1929 | The Forward Pass | Honey Smith |
1929 | From Headquarters | Gunnery Sgt. Wilmer (as Guinn Williams) |
1928 | Beggars of Life | Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited) |
1928 | Noah's Ark | Al Wilson / Ham |
1928 | Burning Daylight | English Harry (as Big Boy Williams) |
1928 | Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath | Sweeney |
1928 | My Man | Joe Halsey |
1928 | Vamping Venus | Mars |
1927 | Lightning | Cuth Stewart |
1927 | The Woman Who Did Not Care | Lars |
1927 | Slide, Kelly, Slide | McLean |
1927 | Quarantined Rivals | Joe, the plumber |
1927 | Backstage | Mike Donovan |
1927 | The Down Grade | Ed Holden |
1927 | The College Widow | Don White (as Big Boy Williams) |
1927 | Snowbound | Bull Morgan |
1927 | Babe Comes Home | Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams) |
1927 | Arizona Bound | Cowboy |
1926 | Brown of Harvard | Hal Walter |
1926 | The Desert's Toll | Henchman |
1925 | Black Cyclone | Jim Lawson |
1925 | Wolfheart's Revenge | Jack Stanley |
1925 | Rose of the Desert | Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams) |
1925 | Courage of Wolfheart | |
1925 | Bad Man from Bodie | |
1925 | Fangs of Wolfheart | |
1925 | The Big Stunt | |
1925 | Red Blood and Blue | Tom Butler |
1925 | Whistling Jim | Whistling Jim |
1925 | Sporting West | |
1925 | Riders of the Sand Storm | The Cowboy |
1924 | The Avenger | Nat Sherwood |
1924 | The Eagle's Claw | Dan Carson |
1923 | Uncensored Movies | |
1923 | End of the Rope | |
1923 | Cyclone Jones | Cyclone Jones |
1923 | Riders at Night | |
1923 | $1,000 Reward | |
1922 | The Ropin' Fool | The Foreman |
1922 | The Trail of Hate | Silent Kerry |
1922 | Across the Border | Andy Fowler |
1922 | The Cowboy King | Dud Smiley |
1922 | Rounding Up the Law | Larry Connell |
1922 | The Freshie | Charles Taylor |
1922 | Blaze Away | Big Boy |
1922 | Remembrance | |
1921 | The Jack Rider | Frank Stevens |
1921 | The Vengeance Trail | Big Boy Bronson |
1921 | Western Firebrands | Billy Fargo |
1920 | Godless Men | Seaman |
1920 | Cupid the Cowpuncher | Hairoil Johnson |
1919 | Jubilo | Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited) |
1919 | Almost a Husband |
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1935 | Danger Trails | Story |
1925 | Red Blood and Blue | Story |
1921 | The Vengeance Trail | Story |
1921 | The Jack Rider | Writer |