Joe Sawyer
Date of birth: 1906-08-29
Place of birth: Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Joe Sauers, Joe Sauer, Joseph Sauers, Joseph Sawyer
Biography
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 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.
Movie Credits
The Killing
1956-06-06
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a bet
The Grapes of Wrath
1940-03-15
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t
Santa Fe Trail
1940-12-20
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, G
Gilda
1946-04-25
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Blondie's Hero
1950-03-09
Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts of
The Outlaw
1943-02-05
Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln,
The Naughty Nineties
1945-06-20
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act
The Walking Dead
1936-03-01
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to d
Comin' Round the Mountain
1951-07-26
Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert's cousin, Dorothy
Hit the Ice
1943-06-02
After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain r
Deadline at Dawn
1946-03-18
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of m
A Double Life
1947-12-25
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage takin
Prescott Kid
1934-11-08
Cowboy Tim Hamlin arrives in a town plagued by a gang of cattle rustlers.
Black Legion
1937-01-30
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining
Coroner Creek
1948-07-01
A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée's death.
Brewster's Millions
1945-04-07
Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns tha
The Roaring Twenties
1939-10-28
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally
The Singing Sheriff
1944-09-01
In this comic western, a Broadway star leaves his musical revue to go West and help out his troubled
The Informer
1935-05-09
Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperat
The House Across the Bay
1940-03-01
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charge
Kazan
1949-07-13
Based on the novel by James Oliver Curwood about Kazan, the wolfdog.
Sergeant York
1941-09-27
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the
I Stole a Million
1939-08-01
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
They Died with Their Boots On
1941-11-20
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death
The Petrified Forest
1936-02-08
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day pennil
How the West Was Won
1962-11-02
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the en
It Came from Outer Space
1953-06-05
Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteori
Special Agent
1935-09-14
A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster'
The Border Legion
1940-12-05
Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an ou
Belle Starr
1941-09-12
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
1943-12-26
A letter from Jane, who is nursing British troops, asks Tarzan's help in obtaining a malaria serum e
The Kettles in the Ozarks
1956-04-01
Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkans
Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West
1991-04-11
Rin-Tin-Tin and his master Rusty as heroes in the old west. Cut from 1950s TV series.
Brooklyn Orchid
1942-01-31
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
Hay Foot
1942-01-02
Colonel Barkley is very proud of his assistant, Sergeant Doubleday, who has a photographic memory. D
Special Investigator
1936-05-08
A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is kill
The Leathernecks Have Landed
1936-02-17
Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherne
Little Big Shot
1935-09-07
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
About Face
1942-04-16
Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.
Raiders of Ghost City
1944-07-25
During the latter stages of the Civil War, a gang of supposed Confederates, headed by Alex Morel (Li
The Runaround
1946-06-04
Two private eyes compete to find an heiress and bring her back, unmarried, to New York.
Inside Information
1939-06-02
A rookie cop and his girlfriend's uncle, a police captain, disagree on the methods that should be us
The Accusing Finger
1936-11-17
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly c
Red Skies of Montana
1952-01-23
When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the par
Eskimo
1933-11-14
The happy life of an Eskimo is disastrously changed when he mingles with an unscrupulous white trade
Buckskin Frontier
1943-05-14
A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.
Legends of the West
1992-09-08
Host Jack Palance explores how Hollywood has depicted Western legends like George Armstrong Custer,
Frontier Marshal
1939-07-28
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized versi
Behind the Criminal
1937-10-30
Episode 13 of the Crime Does Not Play series from MGM.
Roses Are Red
1947-11-10
A crooked crime boss tries to put a crony into office.
Down Mexico Way
1941-10-15
Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", t
Frisco Kid
1935-11-30
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him ris
The Lucky Stiff
1949-05-26
A lawyer spooks gangsters by faking a framed singer's electrocution.
Half Past Midnight
1948-03-01
A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer wh
Lucky Cisco Kid
1940-06-28
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the C
The McGuerins from Brooklyn
1942-12-31
Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett operates a big taxi-fleet company together and because of a misunders
Taxi, Mister
1943-04-16
The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.
Big Town After Dark
1947-12-12
A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
Here Comes Trouble
1948-03-15
A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the p
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
1995-08-24
After escaping Russia's communist revolution, Léon Theremin travels to New York, where he pioneers t
College Humor
1933-07-05
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coe
Stolen Heaven
1938-05-11
Two attractive jewel thieves, one female (Olympe Bradna), one male (Gene Raymond) escape together af
Murder with Pictures
1936-09-24
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the sto
Operation Haylift
1950-05-05
A pilot devises a plan to airlift hay to thousands of ranch cattle stranded and dying due to severe
Sing and Like It
1934-04-20
While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her
Tornado
1943-08-09
The owner of an Illinois coal mine struggles to keep his business in operation, all the while unawar
Moonlight on the Prairie
1935-11-02
A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.
Wildcat Bus
1940-08-23
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
1950-05-25
Traveling entertainer gets mixed up with bank robbers.
Fall In
1942-11-20
An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.
As You Were
1951-10-05
In a train station, Army recruiting sergeant Ames attempts to enlist a group of young men with bland
Mr. Walkie Talkie
1952-11-28
Military comedy about two sergeant buddies constantly getting into trouble.
Navy Blues
1937-03-29
A sailor bets his friends he can get a date with any woman they choose. They pick out a librarian wi
The Flying Missile
1950-12-24
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
Deputy Marshal
1949-10-28
A lawman takes on gangsters attempting to steal property wanted for a railroad.
Car 99
1935-03-02
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men
Always in Trouble
1938-10-28
Jane's dad (Tombes) is an oil field worker who comes into a fortune and is then pushed into society
Gridiron Flash
1934-10-06
A college football team recruits a tough convict.
Indian Uprising
1952-01-02
It's 1885 in Arizona and an Army Captain has dispersed his troops to keep the whites off of Governme
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934-09-22
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his
Maker of Men
1931-08-03
Bob plays football badly so his father Coach Dudley, his girlfriend Dorothy and his school reject hi
Jimmy the Gent
1934-03-09
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and te
Fighting Father Dunne
1948-05-12
A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
Big Brown Eyes
1936-04-03
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detect
If You Knew Susie
1948-02-07
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, e
The Lady Fights Back
1937-10-01
Engineer Owen Merrill travels to the Pacific Northwest where he plans to build a dam. He stays at th
Passport Husband
1938-07-15
At the Club Habana, Henry Cabot, a bumbling busboy, is infatuated with the club's dancer, Conchita M
Looking for Trouble
1934-03-28
Joe and Casey trouble-shoot for the phone company. They try to prove that Joes's girl Ethel's boss D
Christmas Eve
1947-10-31
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administe
Yanks Ahoy
1943-06-29
Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub.
Reported Missing
1937-08-15
A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed.
Two in a Crowd
1936-10-03
When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that indivi
Rose Bowl
1936-11-30
Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; P
Fighting Back
1948-07-30
An ex-convict, freed to fight in World War II, gets a factory job and is accused when a bracelet is
The Band Plays On
1934-12-21
A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
They Gave Him a Gun
1937-05-07
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
The Stranger's Return
1933-07-28
A divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather's farm and recover in the Midwest, where she une
Broadway Gondolier
1935-07-27
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
Last of the Duanes
1941-09-26
Based on Zane Grey's tale of a man who gains an unfair reputation as a gunfighter while out to aveng
Ace of Aces
1933-10-20
A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining
Tarzan's Revenge
1938-01-07
Eleanor and her parents are hunting big game, acompanied by her wimpish fiance.
King of the Lumberjacks
1940-04-13
Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new b
The Lady and the Mob
1939-04-03
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
Alaska Highway
1943-06-24
Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway
Prairie Chickens
1943-05-21
Two unemployed cowhands help a pill-popping rancher find the nasty varmint who's been rustling cattl
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939-05-06
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Union Pacific
1939-05-05
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad acro
A Letter From Bataan
1942-09-15
An American soldier pleads to the folks at home to conserve scarce wartime resources.
Moon Over Las Vegas
1944-04-01
A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there
High Powered
1945-02-27
Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in wh
The Traveling Saleswoman
1950-02-15
The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product.
Heart of the North
1938-12-10
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound fre
Man of Iron
1935-12-21
A construction company foreman's life changes--not necessarily for the better--when he is promoted t
A Son Comes Home
1936-07-31
A mother experiences the torment of discovering that her own son is a killer.
The Country Doctor
1936-03-12
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers qu
G.I. War Brides
1946-08-12
Linda Powell, and English girl, stows away on a ship bound for the United States in order to join th
Son of a Sailor
1933-11-29
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
The Untamed Breed
1948-10-20
A cowboy sets out to capture an escaped Brahma bull that is terrorizing local ranchers. Based on a s
High Tension
1936-07-10
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want h
Great Guy
1936-12-01
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold t
A Dangerous Adventure
1937-07-21
This drama chronicles the education of a naive, rich young woman who inherits a steel mill. To help
Tucson
1949-04-27
The story of Andy Bryant, a University of Arizona student whose grades suffer because of his preoccu
Tanks a Million
1941-09-12
Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a p
The Gay Amigo
1949-05-13
The Cisco Kid and Pancho are mistakenly identified as leaders of an outlaw band. While the cavalry r
And Baby Makes Three
1949-12-02
A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941-04-11
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founde
Dark Command
1940-04-15
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place,
Stagecoach Kid
1949-06-02
Crooked ranch foreman Thatcher sends his two henchmen, Parnell and Clint, out to murder his boss, we
Inside Job
1946-06-14
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who k
Gambling Ship
1938-12-16
A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage.
Three Cornered Moon
1933-08-04
Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandl
Huddle
1932-05-14
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company
The Arizonian
1935-06-27
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and d
Freshman Love
1936-01-18
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like
San Quentin
1937-05-24
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlf
The Long Voyage Home
1940-11-16
The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II
Swamp Water
1941-11-16
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with t
College Coach
1933-11-04
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along th
Sequoia
1935-01-16
A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends.
Melody Ranch
1940-09-15
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Ce
Women Without Names
1940-03-14
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of
You're in the Army Now
1941-12-25
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
Johnny Dark
1954-06-25
A young auto racer competes in a Canada-to-Mexico race in a car he designed himself. Director George
And Sudden Death
1936-06-16
An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the tw
Let's Face It
1943-08-04
A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to ge
Sabotage
1939-10-13
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to
Sundown Jim
1942-03-27
US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful
Down in San Diego
1941-08-01
A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego,
Golden Harvest
1933-09-21
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious
Riding Shotgun
1954-04-01
When a stagecoach guard tries to warn a town of an imminent raid by a band of outlaws, the people mi
The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin
1958-08-01
The 101st Cavalry discover the survivors of an Apache raid on a wagon train. Feature film from The A
North to Alaska
1960-11-07
After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fia
Death on the Diamond
1934-09-14
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debt
Hey, Rookie
1944-04-06
Musical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark
Honeymoon Deferred
1940-02-16
Edmund Lowe plays an insurance investigator who interrupts his honeymoon to look into the case of a
Saturday's Millions
1933-09-30
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's fath
The Storm
1938-10-28
A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
Taza, Son of Cochise
1954-02-18
Three years after the end of the Apache wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza sha
Wrecking Crew
1942-11-07
Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a build
Cowboy in Manhattan
1943-05-21
Bob Allen, a struggling songwriter poses as a millionaire cowboy to win Broadway star Babs Lee.
Deadline - U.S.A.
1952-03-14
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.
Midnight Madonna
1937-07-01
A habitual gambler comes to the aid of a desperate woman after her daughter inherits a fortune and i
The Whole Town's Talking
1935-02-22
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late
The Public Enemy
1931-04-23
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life
Arsène Lupin
1932-02-26
A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris. He even
College Rhythm
1934-11-23
The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the foo
Joe Palooka, Champ
1946-05-26
After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits
Crash Donovan
1936-08-01
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
Pride of the Marines
1936-04-02
A Marine sacrifices his adopted son and his girlfriend so that they might find a new and more prospe
South of Dixie
1944-06-23
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-st
Sleepy Lagoon
1943-09-05
Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running
You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939-03-23
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen
The Man from Montreal
1939-12-09
The Man From Montreal is a lively entry in Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine action series. The
I Found Stella Parish
1935-11-16
A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.
The Westerner
1934-12-10
A rancher (Tim McCoy) and his buddy (Joseph Sauers) scare rustlers out of business.
The Notorious Sophie Lang
1934-07-20
After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--
Hold Your Man
1933-06-30
Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidenta
Slim
1937-06-24
Expert lineman Red takes Farm-boy Slim under his wing and teaches him the dangerous, migratory trade
Campus Sweethearts
1930-03-09