Joe Sawyer
Joe Sawyer (born August 29, 1906 in Guelph , Ontario , † April 21, 1982 in Ashland , Oregon ; actually Joseph Sauers ) was a Canadian film actor with German roots.
Life
Sawyer was born in 1906 as the son of German immigrants in Guelph, Ontario, under the name Joseph Sauers. He gained his first experience as an actor at the Pasadena Playhouse. Because he also wanted to be a film actor, he moved to Hollywood , where he appeared in small roles in front of the camera from 1930. In his first films he still appeared under his real name, later he anglicized it to Joe Sawyer. During the 1930s he played for Warner Brothers in a number of films alongside stars such as James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart , such as in The Roaring Twenties (1939), or alongside Errol Flynn , such as in Land of the Wicked (1940) and His last command (1941).
As a busy supporting actor, he has appeared in almost 200 films over the years. In the 1950s Sawyer appeared in numerous television series, such as Sergeant Biff O'Hara in 14 episodes of the series Rin-Tin-Tin (1954-1959). In 1962 he retired from the film business to Indio in California .
In his first marriage he was married to the actress Jeane Wood, the daughter of the director Sam Wood . His marriage to his second wife June lasted until their death in 1960. Due to illness, Sawyer moved a few years before his death to his son in Ashland, Oregon, where he died of liver cancer in 1982 at the age of 75 .
Filmography (selection)
- 1931: The Public Enemy ( The Public Enemy )
- 1932: Arsene Lupine, the king of thieves ( Arsene Lupine )
- 1933: Ganovenbraut ( Hold Your Man )
- 1933: College Humor
- 1933: A piece of the moon ( Three-Cornered Moon )
- 1933: Eskimo
- 1934: A fine gentleman ( Jimmy the Gent )
- 1934: secret number X ( Looking for Trouble )
- 1935: Talk of the Town ( The Whole Town's Talking )
- 1935: Police car 99 ( Car 99 )
- 1935: Man on the Flying Trapeze
- 1935: The Traitor ( The Informer )
- 1935: Little Big Shot
- 1935: Special Agent ( Special Agent )
- 1935: I Found Stella Parrish
- 1935: Frisco Kid
- 1936: The Petrified Forest ( The Petrified Forest )
- 1936: The walking corpse ( The Walking Dead )
- 1936: Big brown eyes ( Big Brown Eyes )
- 1936: Manhunt ( Murder with Pictures )
- 1936: Great Guy
- 1937: Secret Society Black Legion ( Black Legion )
- 1937: San Quentin
- 1939: You Can't Get Away with Murder
- 1939: Union Pacific
- 1939: I Was a Nazi Spy ( Confessions of a Nazi Spy )
- 1939: The Roaring Twenties ( The Roaring Twenties )
- 1940: The Grapes of Wrath ( The Grapes of Wrath )
- 1940: Dark Command ( Dark Command )
- 1940: The Long Voyage Home ( The Long Voyage Home )
- 1940: Land of the Wicked ( Santa Fe Trail )
- 1941: Sergeant York
- 1941: Belle Starr
- 1941: In the Swamp ( Swamp Water )
- 1941: His last command ( They Died with Their Boots On )
- 1941: Terror of the Second Company ( You're in the Army Now )
- 1941: Tanks a Million
- 1943: Outlaw ( The Outlaw )
- 1943: Abbott and Costello on Black Ice ( Hit the Ice )
- 1943: Tarzan, Conqueror of the Desert ( Tarzan's Desert Mystery )
- 1945: Help, I'm a Millionaire ( Brewster's Millions )
- 1946: Gilda
- 1946: Scandal at the Sports Palace ( Joe Palooka, Champ )
- 1946: The runaway ( The Runaround )
- 1947: A Double Life ( A Double Life )
- 1949: The Lucky Stiff
- 1949: Two Men and Three Babies ( And Baby Makes Three )
- 1952: Devil of the White Mountains ( Indian Uprising )
- 1952: The Fire Jumpers of Montana ( Red Skies of Montana )
- 1952: Take off the mask ( Deadline - USA )
- 1953: Came from Outer Space ( It Came from Outer Space )
- 1954: Taza, Son of Cochise ( Taza, Son of Cochise )
- 1954: This Man Knows Too Much ( Riding Shotgun )
- 1954: Men, Girls and Motors ( Johnny Dark )
- 1956: It didn't work out ( The Killing )
- 1957: Rin-Tin-Tin intervenes ( The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin )
- 1960: Land of a Thousand Adventures ( North to Alaska )
- 1962: How the West Was Won ( How the West Was Won )
Web links
- Joe Sawyer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Joe Sawyer in the All Movie Guide (English)
- Joe Sawyer in the database of Find a Grave (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Joe Sawyer, Film and TV Actor; Joe Sawyer, 75, Created Role Of Sgt. O'Hara in 'Rin Tin Tin' . In: The New York Times , May 25, 1982.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Sawyer, Joe |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sauers, Joseph (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian film actor of German origin |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1906 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Guelph , Ontario |
DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1982 |
Place of death | Ashland , Oregon |