Guinn

Guinn "Big Boy" Williams

  • Birthday: 1899-04-25
  • Deathday: 1962-06-06
  • Place of birth: Decatur, Texas, USA
  • Also know as: Guinn Terrell Williams Jr.

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.

Filmography

Santa Fe Trail

1940

As Windy Brody

American Empire

1942

As Sailaway

A Star Is Born

1937

As Posture Coach

Mr. Wise Guy

1942

As Luke Manning

Castle on the Hudson

1940

As Mike Cagle

You'll Never Get Rich

1941

As Kewpie Blain

The Glass Key

1935

As Jeff

Station West

1948

As Mick Marion

Man in the Saddle

1951

As Bourke Prine

The Littlest Rebel

1935

As Sgt. Dudley

Belle of the Yukon

1944

As Sheriff Mervin Maitland

Swamp Water

1941

As Bud Dorson

Dodge City

1939

As Tex Baird

Rocky Mountain

1950

As Pap Dennison (CSA)

Cowboy and the Senorita

1944

As 'Teddy' Bear

Road to the Big House

1947

As Butch McQuinn

Big City

1937

As Danny Devlin

You Only Live Once

1937

As Rogers

Hands Across the Border

1944

As Teddy Bear

Hangman's Knot

1952

As Smitty

Street of Missing Men

1939

As T-Bone

Minesweeper

1943

As CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith

Man from Del Rio

1956

As Fred Jasper

Flirtation Walk

1934

As Sleepy

Noah's Ark

1928

As Al Wilson / Ham

Lucky Star

1929

As Sgt. Martin Wrenn

Private Worlds

1935

As Jerry Stone

Blackmail

1939

As Moose McCarthy

Rafter Romance

1933

As Fritzie

Springfield Rifle

1952

As Sgt. Snow

Billy the Kid

1941

As Ed Bronson (blacksmith)

Kelly the Second

1936

As Cecil Joseph Callahan

Al Jennings of Oklahoma

1951

As Lon Tuttle

The Phantom

1931

As Dick Mallory

Big Boy Rides Again

1935

As Tom Duncan

The Ropin' Fool

1922

As The Foreman

Wise Girl

1937

As Mike

The Hired Gun

1957

As Elby Kirby

The Mystery Squadron

1933

As Bill 'Jellybean' Cook

Miss Pacific Fleet

1935

As Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend

Black Cyclone

1925

As Jim Lawson

Man of the Forest

1933

As Big Boy

Song of the Prairie

1945

As Big Boy Jackson

The Law of 45's

1935

As Tucson Two-Gun Smith

Army Girl

1938

As Ross

Cowboy Holiday

1934

As Buck Sawyer

Grand Jury

1936

As Joseph Britt

The Vigilantes Are Coming

1936

As Salvation

Here Comes Cookie

1935

As Big Boy

Money and the Woman

1940

As Mr. Adle

The Big Game

1936

As Pete Jenkins

Dangerous Holiday

1937

As Duke Edwards

Bad Lands

1939

As Billy Sweet

Flying Fists

1937

As Slug Cassidy

Gun Play

1935

As Bill Williams

One in a Million

1935

As Spike McGafferty

The Silver Streak

1934

As Higgins

Hold That Co-ed

1938

As Mike Wurgerski

The Big Fight

1930

As Tiger

Brimstone

1949

As Art Benson

Five Bold Women

1960

As 'Big Foot' - the wagon driver

Southwest Passage

1954

As Tall Tale

Massacre Canyon

1954

As Pvt. Archibald Allen

Everybody's Doing It

1938

As 'Softy' Blane

Nevada

1944

As Dusty

The Bad Man of Brimstone

1937

As Vulch McCreedy

The Forward Pass

1929

As Honey Smith

6,000 Enemies

1939

As Maxie

My Dear Miss Aldrich

1937

As An Attendant

She's No Lady

1937

As Jeff

The Singing Marine

1937

As Dopey

Cupid the Cowpuncher

1920

As Hairoil Johnson

Danger Trails

1935

As Bob Wilson

Here Comes the Navy

1934

As Dance-Floor Manager

Thunder Over Texas

1934

As Ted Wright

Palooka

1934

As Slats (uncredited)

The Trail of Hate

1922

As Silent Kerry

The Alamo

1960

As Lt. 'Irish' Finn

The Fighting 69th

1940

As Paddy Dolan

Don't Tell the Wife

1937

As Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal

War Mamas

1931

As Doughboy

Catch-As Catch-Can

1931

As Strangler Sullivan

Alias the Deacon

1940

As Bull Gumbatz

You Said a Mouthful

1932

As Swimming Champion Joe Holt (uncredited)

Virginia City

1940

As Marblehead

That Texas Jamboree

1946

As Big Boy Frazer

Mutiny on the Blackhawk

1939

As Blake - the First Mate

Professor Beware

1938

As Motorcycle Cop

The Undie-World

1934

As Bugsy McHugh

Pleased to Mitt You

1940

As Chuck Brenner

Hoedown

1950

As Small Potatoes

Across the Border

1922

As Andy Fowler

The Jack Rider

1921

As Frank Stevens

The Vengeance Trail

1921

As Big Boy Bronson

The Comancheros

1961

As Ed McBain - Gunrunner (uncredited)

Western Firebrands

1921

As Billy Fargo

Blaze Away

1922

As Big Boy

Rounding Up the Law

1922

As Larry Connell

Remembrance

1922

As

The Cowboy King

1922

As Dud Smiley

The Freshie

1922

As Charles Taylor

Wagons Westward

1940

As Jake Hardman

Smoky River Serenade

1947

As Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams)

Country Fair

1941

As Gunther Potts

The Desperadoes

1943

As Nitro Rankin

The Outlaw's Daughter

1954

As Moose, Deputy

Singing on the Trail

1946

As Big Boy Webster

Society Fever

1935

As Edgar Prouty

The Bachelor Father

1931

As Dick Berney

Girls Can Play

1937

As Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan

Powdersmoke Range

1935

As Lullaby Joslin

End of the Trail

1936

As Bob Hildreth

North of Nome

1936

As Haage

The Bad Man

1930

As Red Giddings

Riders of Death Valley

1941

As Borax Bill

Down in 'Arkansaw'

1938

As Juble Butler

Pardon Our Nerve

1939

As Samson Smith

Legion of Lost Flyers

1939

As Jake Halley

Lure of the Islands

1942

As Jinx

Swing in the Saddle

1944

As 'Tiny' Baldwin

Between Us Girls

1942

As Father at Soda Fountain

Wolfheart's Revenge

1925

As Jack Stanley

Cowboy Canteen

1944

As Spud Harrigan

Polly of the Circus

1932

As Eric

College Coach

1933

As Matthews

The Marines Are Here

1938

As Sgt. Gibbons

My Man

1928

As Joe Halsey

Smoky Mountain Melody

1948

As Saddle Grease Williams

Silver Queen

1942

As Blackie

Rhythm Round-Up

1945

As Zeke Winslow

Sing Me a Song of Texas

1945

As Big Boy

Cowboy Blues

1946

As Big Boy Stover

Throw a Saddle on a Star

1946

As Big Boy

King of the Wild Horses

1947

As Jed Acker (as Big Boy Williams)

Over the Santa Fe Trail

1947

As Big Boy Jackson

Bad Men of Tombstone

1949

As Red Fisk

Dulcy

1940

As Henry

Hidden Guns

1956

As Kingford

Career Woman

1936

As Bede Sanders

Ladies of the Jury

1932

As Steve Bromm (uncredited)

Godless Men

1920

As Seaman

The Champ's a Chump

1936

As Spike

From Headquarters

1929

As Gunnery Sgt. Wilmer (as Guinn Williams)

Liliom

1930

As Hollinger

The College Widow

1927

As Don White (as Big Boy Williams)

Vamping Venus

1928

As Mars

The Bugle Sounds

1942

As Sgt. Krims

Snowbound

1927

As Bull Morgan

70,000 Witnesses

1932

As Connors

Boys Will Be Boys

1932

As Butch

Romance in the Rain

1934

As Panya Mankiewicz

Half a Sinner

1934

As 'Bull' Moran

Singin' in the Corn

1946

As Hank

Burning Daylight

1928

As English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)

The Eagle's Claw

1924

As Dan Carson

I Demand Payment

1938

As Happy Crofton

The Desert's Toll

1926

As Henchman

The Phantom Broadcast

1933

As Sandy Higgins

Babe Comes Home

1927

As Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams)

Arizona Bound

1927

As Cowboy

Lightning

1927

As Cuth Stewart

Fugitive at Large

1939

As Conway (as Guinn Williams)

Jubilo

1919

As Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited)

Rose of the Desert

1925

As Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams)

Slide, Kelly, Slide

1927

As McLean

You and Me

1938

As Text (as Guinn Williams)

Village Tale

1935

As Ben Roberts

Cyclone Jones

1923

As Cyclone Jones

The Avenger

1924

As Nat Sherwood

Red Blood and Blue

1925

As Tom Butler

Whistling Jim

1925

As Whistling Jim

Riders of the Sand Storm

1925

As The Cowboy

Quarantined Rivals

1927

As Joe, the plumber

Backstage

1927

As Mike Donovan

The Down Grade

1927

As Ed Holden

City Girl

1930

As Reaper

College Lovers

1930

As Tiny Courtley

The Great Meadow

1931

As Rubin Hall

Running Hollywood

1932

As Scratchface Henchman

Drifting Souls

1932

As Bing

Laughing at Life

1933

As Jones

Cheaters

1934

As Detective Sweeney

Muss 'em Up

1936

As 'Red' Cable

Love on a Bet

1936

As Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

1941

As Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Fremont: The Trailblazer

1956

As Cassidy

Home from the Hill

1960

As Hugh Macauley (uncredited)

Beggars of Life

1928

As Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited)

Brown of Harvard

1926

As Hal Walter

Production

The Jack Rider

1921

As Writer

The Vengeance Trail

1921

As Story

Danger Trails

1935

As Story

Red Blood and Blue

1925

As Story

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