Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Birthday:
04/25/1899
Place of birth:
Decatur, Texas, USA:
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.

Credits

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