Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1899-04-25
Day of Death
1962-06-06 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Decatur, Texas, USA
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
Acting
(1962)
(1961)
The Comancheros
as Ed McBain - Gunrunner (uncredited)
(1960)
The Alamo
as Lt. 'Irish' Finn
(1960)
Home from the Hill
as Hugh Macauley (uncredited)
(1960)
Five Bold Women
as 'Big Foot' - the wagon driver
(1957)
The Hired Gun
as Elby Kirby
(1956)
Man from Del Rio
as Fred Jasper
(1956)
Hidden Guns
as Kingford
(1956)
Fremont: The Trailblazer
as Cassidy
(1954)
Southwest Passage
as Tall Tale
(1954)
The Outlaw's Daughter
as Moose, Deputy
(1954)
Massacre Canyon
as Pvt. Archibald Allen
(1952)
Springfield Rifle
as Sgt. Snow
(1952)
Hangman's Knot
as Smitty
(1951)
Man in the Saddle
as Bourke Prine
(1951)
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
as Lon Tuttle
(1950)
Rocky Mountain
as Pap Dennison (CSA)
(1950)
Hoedown
as Small Potatoes
(1949)
Brimstone
as Art Benson
(1949)
Bad Men of Tombstone
as Red Fisk
(1948)
Station West
as Mick Marion
(1948)
Smoky Mountain Melody
as Saddle Grease Williams
(1947)
Over the Santa Fe Trail
as Big Boy Jackson
(1947)
Road to the Big House
as Butch McQuinn
(1947)
Smoky River Serenade
as Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams)
(1947)
King of the Wild Horses
as Jed Acker (as Big Boy Williams)
(1946)
Throw a Saddle on a Star
as Big Boy
(1946)
That Texas Jamboree
as Big Boy Frazer
(1946)
Cowboy Blues
as Big Boy Stover
(1946)
Singing on the Trail
as Big Boy Webster
(1946)
Singin' in the Corn
as Hank
(1945)
The Man Who Walked Alone
as Champ
(1945)
Sing Me a Song of Texas
as Big Boy
(1945)
Rhythm Round-Up
as Zeke Winslow
(1945)
Song of the Prairie
as Big Boy Jackson
(1944)
Cowboy and the Senorita
as 'Teddy' Bear
(1944)
Hands Across the Border
as Teddy Bear
(1944)
Nevada
as Dusty
(1944)
Belle of the Yukon
as Sheriff Mervin Maitland
(1944)
Swing in the Saddle
as 'Tiny' Baldwin
(1944)
Cowboy Canteen
as Spud Harrigan
(1943)
The Desperadoes
as Nitro Rankin
(1943)
Minesweeper
as CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith
(1943)
(1942)
American Empire
as Sailaway
(1942)
Mr. Wise Guy
as Luke Manning
(1942)
Silver Queen
as Blackie
(1942)
Lure of the Islands
as Jinx
(1942)
Between Us Girls
as Father of the Boys
(1942)
The Bugle Sounds
as Sgt. Krims
(1941)
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1941)
You'll Never Get Rich
as Kewpie Blain
(1941)
Swamp Water
as Bud Dorson
(1941)
Riders of Death Valley
as Borax Bill
(1941)
Billy the Kid
as Ed Bronson (blacksmith)
(1941)
Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
as Alvin
(1941)
Country Fair
as Gunther Potts
(1940)
Santa Fe Trail
as Windy Brody
(1940)
Virginia City
as Marblehead
(1940)
Castle on the Hudson
as Mike Cagle
(1940)
Money and the Woman
as Mr. Adle
(1940)
Dulcy
as Henry
(1940)
The Fighting 69th
as Paddy Dolan
(1940)
Wagons Westward
as Jake Hardman
(1940)
Alias the Deacon
as Bull Gumbatz
(1940)
Pleased to Mitt You
as Chuck Brenner
(1939)
Dodge City
as Tex Baird
(1939)
Blackmail
as Moose McCarthy
(1939)
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
as Blake - the First Mate
(1939)
Pardon Our Nerve
as Samson Smith
(1939)
6,000 Enemies
as Maxie
(1939)
Bad Lands
as Billy Sweet
(1939)
Legion of Lost Flyers
as Jake Halley
(1939)
Fugitive at Large
as Conway (as Guinn Williams)
(1939)
Street of Missing Men
as T-Bone
(1938)
You and Me
as Taxi
(1938)
Army Girl
as Ross
(1938)
Everybody's Doing It
as 'Softy' Blane
(1938)
Hold That Co-ed
as Mike Wurgerski
(1938)
Professor Beware
as Motorcycle Cop
(1938)
Crashing Through Danger
as Slim
(1938)
The Marines Are Here
as Sgt. Gibbons
(1938)
Down in 'Arkansaw'
as Juble Butler
(1938)
I Demand Payment
as Happy Crofton
(1937)
A Star Is Born
as Posture Coach
(1937)
You Only Live Once
as Rogers
(1937)
Wise Girl
as Mike
(1937)
My Dear Miss Aldrich
as An Attendant
(1937)
The Singing Marine
as Dopey
(1937)
Big City
as Danny Devlin
(1937)
Don't Tell the Wife
as Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal
(1937)
Dangerous Holiday
as Duke Edwards
(1937)
The Bad Man of Brimstone
as Vulch McCreedy
(1937)
Girls Can Play
as Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan
(1937)
Flying Fists
as Slug Cassidy
(1937)
She's No Lady
as Jeff
(1936)
North of Nome
as Haage
(1936)
Muss 'em Up
as 'Red' Cable
(1936)
Career Woman
as Bede Sanders
(1936)
Kelly the Second
as Cecil Joseph Callahan
(1936)
The Big Game
as Pete Jenkins
(1936)
End of the Trail
as Bob Hildreth
(1936)
Grand Jury
as Joseph Britt
(1936)
The Vigilantes Are Coming
as Salvation
(1936)
The Champ's a Chump
as Spike
(1936)
Love on a Bet
as Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
(1935)
Private Worlds
as Jerry Stone
(1935)
The Littlest Rebel
as Sgt. Dudley
(1935)
The Glass Key
as Jeff
(1935)
Powdersmoke Range
as Lullaby Joslin
(1935)
Miss Pacific Fleet
as Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend
(1935)
Village Tale
as Ben Roberts
(1935)
Danger Trails
as Bob Wilson
(1935)
Gun Play
as Bill Williams
(1935)
One in a Million
as Spike McGafferty
(1935)
Society Fever
as Edgar Prouty
(1935)
The Law of 45's
as Tucson Two-Gun Smith
(1935)
Big Boy Rides Again
as Tom Duncan
(1934)
Palooka
as Slats (uncredited)
(1934)
The Silver Streak
as Higgins
(1934)
Flirtation Walk
as Sleepy
(1934)
Here Comes the Navy
as Dance-Floor Manager
(1934)
Romance in the Rain
as Panya Mankiewicz
(1934)
Cowboy Holiday
as Buck Sawyer
(1934)
The Undie-World
as Bugsy McHugh
(1934)
Cheaters
as Detective Sweeney
(1934)
Thunder Over Texas
as Ted Wright
(1934)
Half a Sinner
as 'Bull' Moran
(1933)
College Coach
as Matthews
(1933)
The Phantom Broadcast
as Sandy Higgins
(1933)
The Mystery Squadron
as Bill 'Jellybean' Cook
(1933)
Man of the Forest
as Big Boy
(1933)
Laughing at Life
as Jones
(1933)
Rafter Romance
as Fritzie
(1932)
Ladies of the Jury
as Steve Bromm (uncredited)
(1932)
The Devil Is Driving
as Mac
(1932)
Heritage of the Desert
as Lefty
(1932)
Polly of the Circus
as Eric
(1932)
70,000 Witnesses
as Connors
(1932)
Boys Will Be Boys
as Butch
(1932)
You Said a Mouthful
as Swimming Champion Joe Holt (uncredited)
(1932)
Drifting Souls
as Bing
(1932)
Running Hollywood
as Scratchface Henchman
(1931)
The Bachelor Father
as Dick Berney
(1931)
The Phantom
as Dick Mallory
(1931)
The Great Meadow
as Rubin Hall
(1931)
Catch-As Catch-Can
as Strangler Sullivan
(1931)
War Mamas
as Doughboy
(1930)
City Girl
as Reaper
(1930)
Liliom
as Hollinger
(1930)
College Lovers
as Tiny Courtley
(1930)
The Bad Man
as Red Giddings
(1930)
The Big Fight
as Tiger
(1929)
Lucky Star
as Sgt. Martin Wrenn
(1929)
The Forward Pass
as Honey Smith
(1929)
From Headquarters
as Gunnery Sgt. Wilmer (as Guinn Williams)
(1928)
Noah's Ark
as Al Wilson / Ham
(1928)
Beggars of Life
as Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited)
(1928)
My Man
as Joe Halsey
(1928)
Burning Daylight
as English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)
(1928)
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
as Sweeney
(1928)
Vamping Venus
as Mars
(1927)
The College Widow
as Don White (as Big Boy Williams)
(1927)
Babe Comes Home
as Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams)
(1927)
Lightning
as Cuth Stewart
(1927)
Quarantined Rivals
as Joe, the plumber
(1927)
Backstage
as Mike Donovan
(1927)
Slide, Kelly, Slide
as McLean
(1927)
Arizona Bound
as Cowboy
(1927)
Snowbound
as Bull Morgan
(1927)
The Woman Who Did Not Care
as Lars
(1927)
The Down Grade
as Ed Holden
(1926)
Brown of Harvard
as Hal Walter
(1926)
The Desert's Toll
as Henchman
(1925)
(1925)
Black Cyclone
as Jim Lawson
(1925)
(1925)
Red Blood and Blue
as Tom Butler
(1925)
(1925)
(1925)
Wolfheart's Revenge
as Jack Stanley
(1925)
Whistling Jim
as Whistling Jim
(1925)
Rose of the Desert
as Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams)
(1925)
Riders of the Sand Storm
as The Cowboy
(1925)
(1924)
The Avenger
as Nat Sherwood
(1924)
The Eagle's Claw
as Dan Carson
(1923)
(1923)
(1923)
Cyclone Jones
as Cyclone Jones
(1923)
(1923)
(1922)
Blaze Away
as Big Boy
(1922)
The Freshie
as Charles Taylor
(1922)
(1922)
The Ropin' Fool
as The Foreman
(1922)
Rounding Up the Law
as Larry Connell
(1922)
The Trail of Hate
as Silent Kerry
(1922)
Across the Border
as Andy Fowler
(1922)
The Cowboy King
as Dud Smiley
(1921)
The Jack Rider
as Frank Stevens
(1921)
The Vengeance Trail
as Big Boy Bronson
(1921)
Western Firebrands
as Billy Fargo
(1920)
Cupid the Cowpuncher
as Hairoil Johnson
(1920)
Godless Men
as Seaman
(1919)
Jubilo
as Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited)
(1919)
Crew
(1935)
Danger Trails
Story
(1925)
Red Blood and Blue
Story
(1921)
The Vengeance Trail
Story
(1921)
The Jack Rider
Writer