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