Guinn "Big Boy" Williams

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1899-04-25

Deathday 1962-06-06 (63 years old)

Place of Birth Decatur, Texas, USA

Also Known As Guinn Terrell Williams Jr., Big Boy Williams, Gwinn Williams, Gwynn Williams, Tex Williams

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.

Known For

Actor

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

1957
The Restless Gun

as Jeff Bonsell

1957
Wagon Train

as Calvin Bryngelson

1957
Sugarfoot

as Moose McKlintock

1957
Tales of Wells Fargo

as Mike Forbes

1956
Man from Del Rio

as Fred Jasper

1956
Hidden Guns

as Kingford

1956
U.S. Marshall

as Jones

1955
My Friend Flicka

as Jeb Taylor

1955
Cheyenne

as Prairie Dog

1955
Gunsmoke

as Groat

1954
The Outlaw's Daughter

as Moose, Deputy

1954
Massacre Canyon

as Pvt. Archibald Allen

1954
Southwest Passage

as Tall Tale

1954
1953
The Life Of Riley

as Finnegan

1952
Hangman's Knot

as Smitty

1952
Springfield Rifle

as Sgt. Snow

1951
Man in the Saddle

as Bourke Prine

1951
1950
Rocky Mountain

as Pap Dennison (CSA)

1950
Hoedown

as Small Potatoes

1949
Brimstone

as Art Benson

1949
1948
Smoky Mountain Melody

as Saddle Grease Williams

1948
Station West

as Mick Marion

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)

1947
Over the Santa Fe Trail

as Big Boy Jackson

1946
Singing on the Trail

as Big Boy Webster

1946
Cowboy Blues

as Big Boy Stover

1946
That Texas Jamboree

as Big Boy Frazer

1945
Song of the Prairie

as Big Boy Jackson

1945
Rhythm Round-Up

as Zeke Winslow

1944
Belle of the Yukon

as Sheriff Mervin Maitland

1944
Nevada

as Dusty

1944
Swing in the Saddle

as 'Tiny' Baldwin

1944
Cowboy and the Senorita

as 'Teddy' Bear

1944
Cowboy Canteen

as Spud Harrigan

1944
1943
Minesweeper

as CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith

1943
The Desperadoes

as Nitro Rankin

1942
American Empire

as Sailaway

1942
Silver Queen

as Blackie

1942
Between Us Girls

as Father of the Boys

1942
Mr. Wise Guy

as Luke Manning

1942
The Bugle Sounds

as Sgt. Krims

1941
Mr. Bug Goes to Town

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1941
Swamp Water

as Bud Dorson

1941
You'll Never Get Rich

as Kewpie Blain

1941
1941
Billy the Kid

as Ed Bronson (blacksmith)

1941
Country Fair

as Gunther Potts

1940
Santa Fe Trail

as Windy Brody

1940
Dulcy

as Henry

1940
Pleased to Mitt You

as Chuck Brenner

1940
1940
Wagons Westward

as Jake Hardman

1940
Alias the Deacon

as Bull Gumbatz

1940
Virginia City

as Marblehead

1940
Castle on the Hudson

as Mike Cagle

1940
The Fighting 69th

as Paddy Dolan

1939
Fugitive at Large

as Conway (as Guinn Williams)

1939
Legion of Lost Flyers

as Jake Halley

1939
Blackmail

as Moose McCarthy

1939
Bad Lands

as Billy Sweet

1939
Mutiny on the Blackhawk

as Blake - the First Mate

1939
6,000 Enemies

as Maxie

1939
1939
Dodge City

as Tex Baird

1939
Pardon Our Nerve

as Samson Smith

1938
I Demand Payment

as Happy Crofton

1938
Down in 'Arkansaw'

as Juble Butler

1938
Hold That Co-ed

as Mike Wurgerski

1938
Army Girl

as Ross

1938
Professor Beware

as Motorcycle Cop

1938
The Marines Are Here

as Sgt. Gibbons

1938
You and Me

as Text (as Guinn Williams)

1938
Everybody's Doing It

as 'Softy' Blane

1937
Wise Girl

as Mike

1937
The Bad Man of Brimstone

as Vulch McCreedy

1937
My Dear Miss Aldrich

as An Attendant

1937
Big City

as Danny Devlin

1937
1937
1937
Flying Fists

as Slug Cassidy

1937
Girls Can Play

as Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan

1937
Dangerous Holiday

as Duke Edwards

1937
A Star Is Born

as Posture Coach

1937
Don't Tell the Wife

as Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal

1937
1936
Career Woman

as Bede Sanders

1936
North of Nome

as Haage

1936
End of the Trail

as Bob Hildreth

1936
The Big Game

as Pete Jenkins

1936
Kelly the Second

as Cecil Joseph Callahan

1936
1936
Grand Jury

as Joseph Britt

1936
1936
Love on a Bet

as Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)

1936
Muss 'em Up

as 'Red' Cable

1935
The Littlest Rebel

as Sgt. Dudley

1935
Miss Pacific Fleet

as Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend

1935
Gun Play

as Bill Williams

1935
The Law of 45's

as Tucson Two-Gun Smith

1935
Powdersmoke Range

as Lullaby Joslin

1935
1935
Danger Trails

as Bob Wilson

1935
Society Fever

as Edgar Prouty

1935
1935
Village Tale

as Ben Roberts

1935
Private Worlds

as Jerry Stone

1935
One in a Million

as Spike McGafferty

1935
Big Boy Rides Again

as Tom Duncan

1934
1934
Cowboy Holiday

as Buck Sawyer

1934
Flirtation Walk

as Sleepy

1934
Thunder Over Texas

as Ted Wright

1934
Romance in the Rain

as Panya Mankiewicz

1934
Here Comes the Navy

as Dance-Floor Manager

1934
Half a Sinner

as 'Bull' Moran

1934
Cheaters

as Detective Sweeney

1934
The Undie-World

as Bugsy McHugh

1934
Palooka

as Slats (uncredited)

1933
The Mystery Squadron

as Bill 'Jellybean' Cook

1933
College Coach

as Matthews

1933
Rafter Romance

as Fritzie

1933
1933
1933
The Phantom Broadcast

as Sandy Higgins

1932
1932
You Said a Mouthful

as Swimming Champion Joe Holt (uncredited)

1932
70,000 Witnesses

as Connors

1932
1932
Ladies of the Jury

as Steve Bromm (uncredited)

1932
Running Hollywood

as Scratchface Henchman

1931
War Mamas

as Doughboy

1931
The Phantom

as Dick Mallory

1931
Catch-As Catch-Can

as Strangler Sullivan

1931
The Great Meadow

as Rubin Hall

1931
The Bachelor Father

as Dick Berney

1930
College Lovers

as Tiny Courtley

1930
Liliom

as Hollinger

1930
The Bad Man

as Red Giddings

1930
The Big Fight

as Tiger

1930
City Girl

as Reaper

1929
The Forward Pass

as Honey Smith

1929
Lucky Star

as Sgt. Martin Wrenn

1929
From Headquarters

as Gunnery Sgt. Wilmer (as Guinn Williams)

1928
My Man

as Joe Halsey

1928
Noah's Ark

as Al Wilson / Ham

1928
Beggars of Life

as Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited)

1928
1928
Burning Daylight

as English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)

1927
The College Widow

as Don White (as Big Boy Williams)

1927
The Down Grade

as Ed Holden

1927
Lightning

as Cuth Stewart

1927
Babe Comes Home

as Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams)

1927
Snowbound

as Bull Morgan

1927
Arizona Bound

as Cowboy

1927
Backstage

as Mike Donovan

1927
1927
Quarantined Rivals

as Joe, the plumber

1926
The Desert's Toll

as Henchman

1926
Brown of Harvard

as Hal Walter

1925
Black Cyclone

as Jim Lawson

1925
1925
Rose of the Desert

as Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams)

1925
Whistling Jim

as Whistling Jim

1925
Wolfheart's Revenge

as Jack Stanley

1925
Red Blood and Blue

as Tom Butler

1924
The Eagle's Claw

as Dan Carson

1924
The Avenger

as Nat Sherwood

1923
Cyclone Jones

as Cyclone Jones

1922
The Freshie

as Charles Taylor

1922
The Ropin' Fool

as The Foreman

1922
Blaze Away

as Big Boy

1922
The Trail of Hate

as Silent Kerry

1922
The Cowboy King

as Dud Smiley

1922
Rounding Up the Law

as Larry Connell

1922
Across the Border

as Andy Fowler

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
Jubilo

as Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited)

Writer

1935
Danger Trails

as Story

1925
1921
1921
The Jack Rider

as Writer