Joe Sawyer
Birthday: 1906-08-29
Place of Birth: Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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.
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The Killing
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Santa Fe Trail
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Gilda
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Blondie's Hero
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The Outlaw
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The Naughty Nineties
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Hit the Ice
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Deadline at Dawn
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Prescott Kid
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Black Legion
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Coroner Creek
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Brewster's Millions
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The Roaring Twenties
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The Singing Sheriff
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The House Across the Bay
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Sergeant York
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I Stole a Million
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They Died with Their Boots On
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The Petrified Forest
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Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West
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Brooklyn Orchid
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Hay Foot
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Special Investigator
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The Leathernecks Have Landed
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Little Big Shot
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Raiders of Ghost City
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The Runaround
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Inside Information
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The Accusing Finger
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Red Skies of Montana
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Eskimo
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Buckskin Frontier
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Legends of the West
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Frontier Marshal
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Down Mexico Way
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Frisco Kid
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Half Past Midnight
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Lucky Cisco Kid
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Big Town After Dark
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Here Comes Trouble
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Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
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College Humor
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Stolen Heaven
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Murder with Pictures
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Operation Haylift
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Tornado
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Moonlight on the Prairie
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As You Were
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Mr. Walkie Talkie
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Navy Blues
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The Flying Missile
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Deputy Marshal
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Car 99
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Indian Uprising
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The Case of the Howling Dog
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Jimmy the Gent
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Fighting Father Dunne
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Big Brown Eyes
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Passport Husband
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Looking for Trouble
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Christmas Eve
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Yanks Ahoy
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Reported Missing
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Two in a Crowd
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Rose Bowl
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Fighting Back
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The Band Plays On
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They Gave Him a Gun
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The Stranger's Return
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Broadway Gondolier
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Last of the Duanes
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Ace of Aces
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Tarzan's Revenge
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King of the Lumberjacks
Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new b...
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The Lady and the Mob
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Alaska Highway
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Prairie Chickens
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
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Union Pacific
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A Letter From Bataan
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Moon Over Las Vegas
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High Powered
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The Traveling Saleswoman
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Heart of the North
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Man of Iron
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A Son Comes Home
A mother experiences the torment of discovering that her own son is a killer....
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The Country Doctor
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G.I. War Brides
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The Untamed Breed
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High Tension
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Great Guy
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A Dangerous Adventure
This drama chronicles the education of a naive, rich young woman who inherits a steel mill. To help ...
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Tucson
The story of Andy Bryant, a University of Arizona student whose grades suffer because of his preoccu...
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Tanks a Million
Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a p...
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The Gay Amigo
The Cisco Kid and Pancho are mistakenly identified as leaders of an outlaw band. While the cavalry r...
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And Baby Makes Three
A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents....
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founde...
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Dark Command
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Stagecoach Kid
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Inside Job
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Three Cornered Moon
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Huddle
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The Arizonian
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Freshman Love
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San Quentin
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The Long Voyage Home
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Swamp Water
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College Coach
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Melody Ranch
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Women Without Names
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You're in the Army Now
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Johnny Dark
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And Sudden Death
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Let's Face It
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Sabotage
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Sundown Jim
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Down in San Diego
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Golden Harvest
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Riding Shotgun
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The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin
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North to Alaska
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Death on the Diamond
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Hey, Rookie
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Honeymoon Deferred
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Saturday's Millions
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Taza, Son of Cochise
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Wrecking Crew
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Cowboy in Manhattan
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Deadline - U.S.A.
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Midnight Madonna
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The Whole Town's Talking
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The Public Enemy
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Arsène Lupin
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College Rhythm
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Joe Palooka, Champ
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Pride of the Marines
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South of Dixie
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Sleepy Lagoon
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You Can't Get Away with Murder
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The Man from Montreal
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I Found Stella Parish
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The Westerner
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The Notorious Sophie Lang
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Hold Your Man
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Slim
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Pride of Maryland
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