Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 25, 1899
Place of Birth:
Decatur, Texas, USA
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Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Buttons and Her Beaus | |
| 1961 | The Comancheros | Ed McBain - Gunrunner (uncredited) |
| 1960 | Five Bold Women | 'Big Foot' - the wagon driver |
| 1960 | The Alamo | Lt. 'Irish' Finn |
| 1960 | Home from the Hill | Hugh Macauley (uncredited) |
| 1957 | The Hired Gun | Elby Kirby |
| 1956 | Man from Del Rio | Fred Jasper |
| 1956 | Fremont: The Trailblazer | Cassidy |
| 1956 | Hidden Guns | Kingford |
| 1954 | Southwest Passage | Tall Tale |
| 1954 | Massacre Canyon | Pvt. Archibald Allen |
| 1954 | The Outlaw's Daughter | Moose, Deputy |
| 1952 | Hangman's Knot | Smitty |
| 1952 | Springfield Rifle | Sgt. Snow |
| 1951 | Man in the Saddle | Bourke Prine |
| 1951 | Al Jennings of Oklahoma | Lon Tuttle |
| 1950 | Rocky Mountain | Pap Dennison (CSA) |
| 1950 | Hoedown | Small Potatoes |
| 1949 | Brimstone | Art Benson |
| 1949 | Bad Men of Tombstone | Red Fisk |
| 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 | Song of the Prairie | Big Boy Jackson |
| 1945 | The Man Who Walked Alone | Champ |
| 1945 | Sing Me a Song of Texas | Big Boy |
| 1945 | Rhythm Round-Up | Zeke Winslow |
| 1944 | Belle of the Yukon | Sheriff Mervin Maitland |
| 1944 | Cowboy and the Senorita | 'Teddy' Bear |
| 1944 | Hands Across the Border | Teddy Bear |
| 1944 | Nevada | Dusty |
| 1944 | Swing in the Saddle | 'Tiny' Baldwin |
| 1944 | Cowboy Canteen | Spud Harrigan |
| 1943 | Minesweeper | CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith |
| 1943 | The Desperadoes | Nitro Rankin |
| 1943 | Stars on Horseback | |
| 1942 | American Empire | Sailaway |
| 1942 | Mr. Wise Guy | Luke Manning |
| 1942 | Lure of the Islands | Jinx |
| 1942 | Between Us Girls | Father of the Boys |
| 1942 | Silver Queen | Blackie |
| 1942 | The Bugle Sounds | Sgt. Krims |
| 1941 | You'll Never Get Rich | Kewpie Blain |
| 1941 | Swamp Water | Bud Dorson |
| 1941 | Billy the Kid | Ed Bronson (blacksmith) |
| 1941 | Mr. Bug Goes to Town | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Country Fair | Gunther Potts |
| 1941 | Riders of Death Valley | Borax Bill |
| 1941 | Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga | Alvin |
| 1940 | Santa Fe Trail | Windy Brody |
| 1940 | Castle on the Hudson | Mike Cagle |
| 1940 | Money and the Woman | Mr. Adle |
| 1940 | The Fighting 69th | Paddy Dolan |
| 1940 | Alias the Deacon | Bull Gumbatz |
| 1940 | Virginia City | Marblehead |
| 1940 | Pleased to Mitt You | Chuck Brenner |
| 1940 | Wagons Westward | Jake Hardman |
| 1940 | Dulcy | Henry |
| 1939 | Fugitive at Large | Conway (as Guinn Williams) |
| 1939 | Dodge City | Tex Baird |
| 1939 | Blackmail | Moose McCarthy |
| 1939 | Bad Lands | Billy Sweet |
| 1939 | 6,000 Enemies | Maxie |
| 1939 | Mutiny on the Blackhawk | Blake - the First Mate |
| 1939 | Street of Missing Men | T-Bone |
| 1939 | Pardon Our Nerve | Samson Smith |
| 1939 | Legion of Lost Flyers | Jake Halley |
| 1938 | You and Me | Taxi |
| 1938 | Army Girl | Ross |
| 1938 | Hold That Co-ed | Mike Wurgerski |
| 1938 | Crashing Through Danger | Slim |
| 1938 | Everybody's Doing It | 'Softy' Blane |
| 1938 | Professor Beware | Motorcycle Cop |
| 1938 | Down in 'Arkansaw' | Juble Butler |
| 1938 | The Marines Are Here | Sgt. Gibbons |
| 1938 | I Demand Payment | Happy Crofton |
| 1937 | A Star Is Born | Posture Coach |
| 1937 | You Only Live Once | Rogers |
| 1937 | Big City | Danny Devlin |
| 1937 | Wise Girl | Mike |
| 1937 | Dangerous Holiday | Duke Edwards |
| 1937 | Flying Fists | Slug Cassidy |
| 1937 | The Bad Man of Brimstone | Vulch McCreedy |
| 1937 | She's No Lady | Jeff |
| 1937 | My Dear Miss Aldrich | An Attendant |
| 1937 | The Singing Marine | Dopey |
| 1937 | Don't Tell the Wife | Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal |
| 1937 | Girls Can Play | Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan |
| 1936 | Kelly the Second | Cecil Joseph Callahan |
| 1936 | Grand Jury | Joseph Britt |
| 1936 | The Vigilantes Are Coming | Salvation |
| 1936 | The Big Game | Pete Jenkins |
| 1936 | Love on a Bet | Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted) |
| 1936 | Muss 'em Up | 'Red' Cable |
| 1936 | North of Nome | Haage |
| 1936 | End of the Trail | Bob Hildreth |
| 1936 | Career Woman | Bede Sanders |
| 1936 | The Champ's a Chump | Spike |
| 1935 | The Glass Key | Jeff |
| 1935 | The Littlest Rebel | Sgt. Dudley |
| 1935 | Private Worlds | Jerry Stone |
| 1935 | Big Boy Rides Again | Tom Duncan |
| 1935 | Miss Pacific Fleet | Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend |
| 1935 | The Law of 45's | Tucson Two-Gun Smith |
| 1935 | One in a Million | Spike McGafferty |
| 1935 | Gun Play | Bill Williams |
| 1935 | Village Tale | Ben Roberts |
| 1935 | Danger Trails | Bob Wilson |
| 1935 | Society Fever | Edgar Prouty |
| 1935 | Powdersmoke Range | Lullaby Joslin |
| 1934 | Flirtation Walk | Sleepy |
| 1934 | Cowboy Holiday | Buck Sawyer |
| 1934 | Thunder Over Texas | Ted Wright |
| 1934 | The Silver Streak | Higgins |
| 1934 | Cheaters | Detective Sweeney |
| 1934 | Here Comes the Navy | Dance-Floor Manager |
| 1934 | Palooka | Slats (uncredited) |
| 1934 | The Undie-World | Bugsy McHugh |
| 1934 | Romance in the Rain | Panya Mankiewicz |
| 1934 | Half a Sinner | 'Bull' Moran |
| 1933 | Rafter Romance | Fritzie |
| 1933 | The Mystery Squadron | Bill 'Jellybean' Cook |
| 1933 | College Coach | Matthews |
| 1933 | Man of the Forest | Big Boy |
| 1933 | Laughing at Life | Jones |
| 1933 | The Phantom Broadcast | Sandy Higgins |
| 1932 | Heritage of the Desert | Lefty |
| 1932 | Polly of the Circus | Eric |
| 1932 | Drifting Souls | Bing |
| 1932 | Running Hollywood | Scratchface Henchman |
| 1932 | The Devil Is Driving | Mac |
| 1932 | You Said a Mouthful | Swimming Champion Joe Holt (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Ladies of the Jury | Steve Bromm (uncredited) |
| 1932 | 70,000 Witnesses | Connors |
| 1932 | Boys Will Be Boys | Butch |
| 1931 | The Phantom | Dick Mallory |
| 1931 | The Bachelor Father | Dick Berney |
| 1931 | The Great Meadow | Rubin Hall |
| 1931 | War Mamas | Doughboy |
| 1931 | Catch-As Catch-Can | Strangler Sullivan |
| 1930 | City Girl | Reaper |
| 1930 | College Lovers | Tiny Courtley |
| 1930 | The Big Fight | Tiger |
| 1930 | The Bad Man | Red Giddings |
| 1930 | Liliom | Hollinger |
| 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 | Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath | Sweeney |
| 1928 | My Man | Joe Halsey |
| 1928 | Vamping Venus | Mars |
| 1928 | Burning Daylight | English Harry (as Big Boy Williams) |
| 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 |
| 1927 | Lightning | Cuth Stewart |
| 1926 | Brown of Harvard | Hal Walter |
| 1926 | The Desert's Toll | Henchman |
| 1925 | Rose of the Desert | Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams) |
| 1925 | Fangs of Wolfheart | |
| 1925 | Bad Man from Bodie | |
| 1925 | The Big Stunt | |
| 1925 | Courage of Wolfheart | |
| 1925 | Black Cyclone | Jim Lawson |
| 1925 | Red Blood and Blue | Tom Butler |
| 1925 | Sporting West | |
| 1925 | Whistling Jim | Whistling Jim |
| 1925 | Riders of the Sand Storm | The Cowboy |
| 1925 | Wolfheart's Revenge | Jack Stanley |
| 1924 | The Avenger | Nat Sherwood |
| 1924 | The Eagle's Claw | Dan Carson |
| 1923 | Cyclone Jones | Cyclone Jones |
| 1923 | Uncensored Movies | |
| 1923 | Riders at Night | |
| 1923 | End of the Rope | |
| 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 | Blaze Away | Big Boy |
| 1922 | The Freshie | Charles Taylor |
| 1922 | Remembrance | |
| 1921 | The Jack Rider | Frank Stevens |
| 1921 | The Vengeance Trail | Big Boy Bronson |
| 1921 | Western Firebrands | Billy Fargo |
| 1920 | Cupid the Cowpuncher | Hairoil Johnson |
| 1920 | Godless Men | Seaman |
| 1919 | Jubilo | Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited) |
| 1919 | Almost a Husband |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1957 | The Restless Gun | Jeff Bonsell |
| 1957 | Sugarfoot | Moose McKlintock |
| 1957 | Wagon Train | Calvin Bryngelson |
| 1957 | Tales of Wells Fargo | Mike Forbes |
| 1956 | Circus Boy | |
| 1956 | U.S. Marshall | Jones |
| 1955 | Cheyenne | Prairie Dog |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Groat |
| 1955 | My Friend Flicka | Jeb Taylor |
| 1954 | The Wonderful World of Disney | Buffalo |
| 1954 | The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin | Sgt. Muldoon |
| 1953 | The Life Of Riley | Finnegan |
| 1951 | The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok | Tulsa Jack |