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Joe Sawyer

Highest Rated: 100% Black Legion (1937)

Lowest Rated: 50% North to Alaska (1960)

Birthday: Aug 29, 1906

Birthplace: Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Comedic character actor in film since the early 1930s, usually as a no-nonsense cop or military figure.

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Highest rated movies

100% 58% Black Legion
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100% 89% The Roaring Twenties
Watchlist 100% 88% The Grapes of Wrath Watchlist
100% 60% Confessions of a Nazi Spy
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100% 70% The Long Voyage Home
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96% 92% The Killing
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90% 88% Gilda
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89% 77% The Informer
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88% 64% A Double Life
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85% 86% Sergeant York
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Joe Sawyer

Joe Sawyer HAYFOOT, Joe Sawyer, 1942 HERE COMES TROUBLE, Joe Sawyer, 1948 THE INFORMER, Joe Sawyer, 1935 THE INFORMER, front from left: Joe Sawyer, Victor McLaglen, Preston Foster, 1935 THE WRECKING CREW, Joe Sawyer, Richard Arlen, Chester Morris, 1942 HERE COMES TROUBLE, William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, 1948 HERE COMES TROUBLE, Joan Woodbury, Joe Sawyer, Beverly Lloyd, William Tracy, 1948 HAYFOOT, Joe Sawyer, Noah Beery Jr., William Tracy, Elyse Knox, 1942 TARZAN'S REVENGE, George Barbier, Joe Sawyer, Hedda Hopper, George Meeker, Eleanor Holm, 1938 View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Courage of Rin Tin Tin Sgt. "Biff" O'Hara (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet 20% The Day Mars Invaded Earth Unknown (Character) - 1963
50% 76% North to Alaska Land Commissioner (Character) - 1960
96% 92% The Killing Mike O'Reilly (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rin Tin Tin: Hero of the West Unknown (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 27% Taza, Son of Cochise Sgt. Hamma (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet 61% Riding Shotgun Tom Biggert (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet No Score Yet Riding Shotgun Tom Biggert (Character) - 1954
81% 55% It Came From Outer Space Frank Daylon (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet Indian Uprising Sgt. Maj. Phineas T. Keogh (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet 29% Red Skies of Montana Pop Miller (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mr. Walkie Talkie Sgt. Ames (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet No Score Yet As You Were Sgt. Ames (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Flying Missile Quartermaster "Fuss" Payne (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet No Score Yet Operation Haylift George Swallow (Character),
Producer 		- 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet Traveling Saleswoman Cactus Jack (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kazan Sandz Jepson (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lucky Stiff Tony (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tucson Tod Bryant (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet No Score Yet Two Knights From Brooklyn Eddie Corbett (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet No Score Yet Here Comes Trouble Officer Ames (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fighting Back Police Sergeant Scudder (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Untamed Breed Hoy Keegan (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fighting Father Dunne Steve Davis (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet Half Past Midnight Det. Lt. Joe Nash (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet Big Town After Dark Monk (Character) - 1947
88% 64% A Double Life Pete Bonner (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet Roses Are Red Wall (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet 58% Deadline at Dawn Babe Dooley (Character) - 1946
90% 88% Gilda Casey (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Runaround Hutchins (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet Inside Job Police Capt. Thomas (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet 48% Brewster's Millions Hacky Smith (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet No Score Yet High Powered Spike Kenny (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Singing Sheriff Squint (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hey, Rookie Sergeant (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet Buckskin Frontier Brannigan (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alaska Highway Roughhouse (Character) - 1943
71% 31% The Outlaw Charley Woodruff (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 25% Tarzan's Desert Mystery Karl Straeder (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet Prairie Chickens Albertson (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 59% Hit the Ice Buster (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cowboy in Manhattan Louie (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet Yanks Ahoy Sgt. Ames (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet Taxi, Mister Eddie Corbett (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet Two Mugs From Brooklyn Eddie Corbett (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hay Foot Sergeant Ames (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fall In Sgt. William Ames (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet About Face Sgt. William Ames (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wrecking Crew Fred Bunce (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sundown Jim Ben Moffitt (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet Down Mexico Way Allen (Character) - 1941
85% 86% Sergeant York Sergeant Early (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Last of the Duanes Bull Lossomoer (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Campy Kids From Boot Camp Sgt. Ames (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lady From Cheyenne Sheriff "Noisy" Burkett (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet You're in the Army Now Sergeant Madden (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Border Legion Jim Gulden (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet 50% The House Across the Bay Charlie (Character) - 1940
100% 70% The Long Voyage Home Davis (Character) - 1940
100% 88% The Grapes of Wrath Bookkeeper (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet Melody Ranch Jasper Wildhack (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wildcat Bus Burke (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet King of the Lumberjacks Jigger (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lucky Cisco Kid Bill Stevens (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet 62% Frontier Marshal Curley Bill (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet You Can't Get Away With Murder Red (Character) - 1939
100% 60% Confessions of a Nazi Spy Werner Renz (Character) - 1939
100% 89% The Roaring Twenties The Sergeant (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sabotage Gardner (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Inside Information Detective Grazzi (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lady and the Mob Blinky Mack (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet 11% Tarzan's Revenge Olaf Punch (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Always in Trouble Buster Mussendorfer (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Heart of the North Red Crocker (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Navy Blues Chips (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 25% They Gave Him a Gun Doyle (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 50% Slim Wilcox (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 26% San Quentin "Sailor Boy" Hansen (Character) - 1937
100% 58% Black Legion Cliff Moore (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 70% High Tension Terry Madden (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet 56% The Walking Dead Trigger (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet 37% Great Guy Joe Burton (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Pride of the Marines Tennessee (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Last Outlaw Unknown (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Westerner Bob Lockhart (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Special Investigator Jim "Jimmy" Plummer (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Moonlight on the Prairie Luke Thomas (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet 22% I Found Stella Parish Chuck (Character) - 1935
89% 77% The Informer Bartly Mulholland (as Joseph Sauers) (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Man of Iron Crawford (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gridiron Flash Coach Eversmith (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Olsen's Night Out 'Dapper' Danny Reynolds (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Death on the Diamond Duncan "Dunk" Spencer (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet 78% Stamboul Quest Soldier Escorting Doktor (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Looking for Trouble Henchman Max (Character) - 1933

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Surfside 6 Unknown (Guest Star) 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bat Masterson Unknown (Guest Star) 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lock Up Unknown (Guest Star) 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sugarfoot Unknown (Guest Star) 1959