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)
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)
Smoky River Serenade
as Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams)
(1947)
Over the Santa Fe Trail
as Big Boy Jackson
(1947)
King of the Wild Horses
as Jed Acker (as Big Boy Williams)
(1947)
Road to the Big House
as Butch McQuinn
(1946)
Singing on the Trail
as Big Boy Webster
(1946)
Cowboy Blues
as Big Boy Stover
(1946)
Singin' in the Corn
as Hank
(1946)
Throw a Saddle on a Star
as Big Boy
(1946)
That Texas Jamboree
as Big Boy Frazer
(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)
Nevada
as Dusty
(1944)
Belle of the Yukon
as Sheriff Mervin Maitland
(1944)
Cowboy and the Senorita
as 'Teddy' Bear
(1944)
Hands Across the Border
as Teddy Bear
(1944)
Swing in the Saddle
as 'Tiny' Baldwin
(1944)
Cowboy Canteen
as Spud Harrigan
(1943)
The Desperadoes
as Nitro Rankin
(1943)
(1943)
Minesweeper
as CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith
(1942)
American Empire
as Sailaway
(1942)
Silver Queen
as Blackie
(1942)
Mr. Wise Guy
as Luke Manning
(1942)
The Bugle Sounds
as Sgt. Krims
(1942)
Between Us Girls
as Father of the Boys
(1942)
Lure of the Islands
as Jinx
(1941)
You'll Never Get Rich
as Kewpie Blain
(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)
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)
Castle on the Hudson
as Mike Cagle
(1940)
Dulcy
as Henry
(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)
6,000 Enemies
as Maxie
(1939)
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
as Blake - the First Mate
(1939)
Fugitive at Large
as Conway (as Guinn Williams)
(1939)
Pardon Our Nerve
as Samson Smith
(1939)
Street of Missing Men
as T-Bone
(1939)
Legion of Lost Flyers
as Jake Halley
(1938)
You and Me
as Taxi
(1938)
Hold That Co-ed
as Mike Wurgerski
(1938)
Professor Beware
as Motorcycle Cop
(1938)
Everybody's Doing It
as 'Softy' Blane
(1938)
Army Girl
as Ross
(1938)
Down in 'Arkansaw'
as Juble Butler
(1938)
Crashing Through Danger
as Slim
(1938)
The Marines Are Here
as Sgt. Gibbons
(1938)
I Demand Payment
as Happy Crofton
(1937)
A Star Is Born
as Posture Coach
(1937)
You Only Live Once
as Rogers
(1937)
Big City
as Danny Devlin
(1937)
Don't Tell the Wife
as Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal
(1937)
My Dear Miss Aldrich
as An Attendant
(1937)
The Singing Marine
as Dopey
(1937)
Wise Girl
as Mike
(1937)
Girls Can Play
as Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan
(1937)
The Bad Man of Brimstone
as Vulch McCreedy
(1937)
She's No Lady
as Jeff
(1937)
Dangerous Holiday
as Duke Edwards
(1937)
Flying Fists
as Slug Cassidy
(1936)
Love on a Bet
as Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
(1936)
North of Nome
as Haage
(1936)
Muss 'em Up
as 'Red' Cable
(1936)
Kelly the Second
as Cecil Joseph Callahan
(1936)
The Big Game
as Pete Jenkins
(1936)
The Vigilantes Are Coming
as Salvation
(1936)
Grand Jury
as Joseph Britt
(1936)
Career Woman
as Bede Sanders
(1936)
End of the Trail
as Bob Hildreth
(1936)
The Champ's a Chump
as Spike
(1935)
The Littlest Rebel
as Sgt. Dudley
(1935)
Village Tale
as Ben Roberts
(1935)
Private Worlds
as Jerry Stone
(1935)
Powdersmoke Range
as Lullaby Joslin
(1935)
The Glass Key
as Jeff
(1935)
The Law of 45's
as Tucson Two-Gun Smith
(1935)
Big Boy Rides Again
as Tom Duncan
(1935)
Society Fever
as Edgar Prouty
(1935)
Gun Play
as Bill Williams
(1935)
Miss Pacific Fleet
as Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend
(1935)
One in a Million
as Spike McGafferty
(1935)
Danger Trails
as Bob Wilson
(1934)
Flirtation Walk
as Sleepy
(1934)
Here Comes the Navy
as Dance-Floor Manager
(1934)
Palooka
as Slats (uncredited)
(1934)
The Silver Streak
as Higgins
(1934)
Romance in the Rain
as Panya Mankiewicz
(1934)
Thunder Over Texas
as Ted Wright
(1934)
The Undie-World
as Bugsy McHugh
(1934)
Cowboy Holiday
as Buck Sawyer
(1934)
Cheaters
as Detective Sweeney
(1934)
Half a Sinner
as 'Bull' Moran
(1933)
College Coach
as Matthews
(1933)
Man of the Forest
as Big Boy
(1933)
Rafter Romance
as Fritzie
(1933)
Laughing at Life
as Jones
(1933)
The Mystery Squadron
as Bill 'Jellybean' Cook
(1933)
The Phantom Broadcast
as Sandy Higgins
(1932)
Heritage of the Desert
as Lefty
(1932)
The Devil Is Driving
as Mac
(1932)
Polly of the Circus
as Eric
(1932)
70,000 Witnesses
as Connors
(1932)
Ladies of the Jury
as Steve Bromm (uncredited)
(1932)
You Said a Mouthful
as Swimming Champion Joe Holt (uncredited)
(1932)
Drifting Souls
as Bing
(1932)
Running Hollywood
as Scratchface Henchman
(1932)
Boys Will Be Boys
as Butch
(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)
Liliom
as Hollinger
(1930)
City Girl
as Reaper
(1930)
The Bad Man
as Red Giddings
(1930)
College Lovers
as Tiny Courtley
(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)
Beggars of Life
as Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited)
(1928)
Noah's Ark
as Al Wilson / Ham
(1928)
My Man
as Joe Halsey
(1928)
Vamping Venus
as Mars
(1928)
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
as Sweeney
(1928)
Burning Daylight
as English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)
(1927)
Lightning
as Cuth Stewart
(1927)
Snowbound
as Bull Morgan
(1927)
Babe Comes Home
as Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams)
(1927)
Slide, Kelly, Slide
as McLean
(1927)
Arizona Bound
as Cowboy
(1927)
Backstage
as Mike Donovan
(1927)
The Woman Who Did Not Care
as Lars
(1927)
The College Widow
as Don White (as Big Boy Williams)
(1927)
Quarantined Rivals
as Joe, the plumber
(1927)
The Down Grade
as Ed Holden
(1926)
The Desert's Toll
as Henchman
(1926)
Brown of Harvard
as Hal Walter
(1925)
(1925)
Black Cyclone
as Jim Lawson
(1925)
Wolfheart's Revenge
as Jack Stanley
(1925)
(1925)
(1925)
(1925)
Red Blood and Blue
as Tom Butler
(1925)
Rose of the Desert
as Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams)
(1925)
(1925)
Whistling Jim
as Whistling Jim
(1925)
Riders of the Sand Storm
as The Cowboy
(1924)
The Eagle's Claw
as Dan Carson
(1924)
The Avenger
as Nat Sherwood
(1923)
(1923)
(1923)
Cyclone Jones
as Cyclone Jones
(1923)
(1923)
(1922)
Rounding Up the Law
as Larry Connell
(1922)
(1922)
The Ropin' Fool
as The Foreman
(1922)
Blaze Away
as Big Boy
(1922)
The Cowboy King
as Dud Smiley
(1922)
The Trail of Hate
as Silent Kerry
(1922)
Across the Border
as Andy Fowler
(1922)
The Freshie
as Charles Taylor
(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