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