Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 25, 1899
- Died
- June 6, 1962
- Birthplace
- Decatur, Texas, USA
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
- Buttons and Her Beaus
Buttons and Her Beaus 1962
Actor
The Comancheros 1961
as Ed McBain - Gunrunner (uncredited)
The Alamo 1960
as Lt. 'Irish' Finn
Five Bold Women 1960
as 'Big Foot' - the wagon driver
Home from the Hill 1960
as Hugh Macauley (uncredited)
The Hired Gun 1957
as Elby Kirby
Man from Del Rio 1956
as Fred Jasper
Hidden Guns 1956
as Kingford
Fremont: The Trailblazer 1956
as Cassidy
The Outlaw's Daughter 1954
as Moose, Deputy
Massacre Canyon 1954
as Pvt. Archibald Allen
Southwest Passage 1954
as Tall Tale
Hangman's Knot 1952
as Smitty
Springfield Rifle 1952
as Sgt. Snow
Man in the Saddle 1951
as Bourke Prine
Al Jennings of Oklahoma 1951
as Lon Tuttle
Rocky Mountain 1950
as Pap Dennison (CSA)
Hoedown 1950
as Small Potatoes
Brimstone 1949
as Art Benson
Bad Men of Tombstone 1949
as Red Fisk
Smoky Mountain Melody 1948
as Saddle Grease Williams
Station West 1948
as Mick Marion
Road to the Big House 1947
as Butch McQuinn
Smoky River Serenade 1947
as Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams)
King of the Wild Horses 1947
as Jed Acker
Over the Santa Fe Trail 1947
as Big Boy Jackson
Singin' in the Corn 1946
as Hank
Singing on the Trail 1946
as Big Boy Webster
Cowboy Blues 1946
as Big Boy Stover
That Texas Jamboree 1946
as Big Boy Frazer
Throw a Saddle on a Star 1946
as Big Boy
Song of the Prairie 1945
as Big Boy Jackson
Rhythm Round-Up 1945
as Zeke Winslow
The Man Who Walked Alone 1945
as Champ
Sing Me a Song of Texas 1945
as Big Boy
Belle of the Yukon 1944
as Sheriff Mervin Maitland
Nevada 1944
as Dusty
Swing in the Saddle 1944
as 'Tiny' Baldwin
Cowboy and the Senorita 1944
as 'Teddy' Bear
Cowboy Canteen 1944
as Spud Harrigan
Hands Across the Border 1944
as Teddy Bear
Minesweeper 1943
as CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith
The Desperadoes 1943
as Nitro Rankin
Stars on Horseback 1943
Actor
American Empire 1942
as Sailaway
Silver Queen 1942
as Blackie
Between Us Girls 1942
as Father of the Boys
Lure of the Islands 1942
as Jinx
Mr. Wise Guy 1942
as Luke Manning
The Bugle Sounds 1942
as Sgt. Krims
Mr. Bug Goes to Town 1941
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Swamp Water 1941
as Bud Dorson
You'll Never Get Rich 1941
as Kewpie Blain
Riders of Death Valley 1941
as Borax Bill
Billy the Kid 1941
as Ed Bronson (blacksmith)
Country Fair 1941
as Gunther Potts
Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga 1941
as Alvin
Santa Fe Trail 1940
as Windy Brody
Dulcy 1940
as Henry
Pleased to Mitt You 1940
as Chuck Brenner
Money and the Woman 1940
as Mr. Adle
Wagons Westward 1940
as Jake Hardman
Alias the Deacon 1940
as Bull Gumbatz
Virginia City 1940
as Marblehead
Castle on the Hudson 1940
as Mike Cagle
The Fighting 69th 1940
as Paddy Dolan
Fugitive at Large 1939
as Conway (as Guinn Williams)
Legion of Lost Flyers 1939
as Jake Halley
Blackmail 1939
as Moose McCarthy
Bad Lands 1939
as Billy Sweet
Mutiny on the Blackhawk 1939
as Blake - the First Mate
6,000 Enemies 1939
as Maxie
Street of Missing Men 1939
as T-Bone
Dodge City 1939
as Tex Baird
Pardon Our Nerve 1939
as Samson Smith
I Demand Payment 1938
as Happy Crofton
Down in 'Arkansaw' 1938
as Juble Butler
Hold That Co-ed 1938
as Mike Wurgerski
Crashing Through Danger 1938
as Slim
Army Girl 1938
as Ross
Professor Beware 1938
as Motorcycle Cop
The Marines Are Here 1938
as Sgt. Gibbons
You and Me 1938
as Taxi
Everybody's Doing It 1938
as 'Softy' Blane
The Bad Man of Brimstone 1937
as Vulch McCreedy
Wise Girl 1937
as Mike
My Dear Miss Aldrich 1937
as An Attendant
Big City 1937
as Danny Devlin
She's No Lady 1937
as Jeff
The Singing Marine 1937
as Dopey
Flying Fists 1937
as Slug Cassidy
Girls Can Play 1937
as Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan
Dangerous Holiday 1937
as Duke Edwards
A Star Is Born 1937
as Posture Coach
Don't Tell the Wife 1937
as Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal
You Only Live Once 1937
as Rogers
Career Woman 1936
as Bede Sanders
North of Nome 1936
as Haage
End of the Trail 1936
as Bob Hildreth
The Big Game 1936
as Pete Jenkins
The Vigilantes Are Coming 1936
as Salvation
Kelly the Second 1936
as Cecil Joseph Callahan
Grand Jury 1936
as Joseph Britt
The Champ's a Chump 1936
as Spike
Love on a Bet 1936
as Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
Muss 'em Up 1936
as 'Red' Cable
The Littlest Rebel 1935
as Sergeant Dudley
Miss Pacific Fleet 1935
as Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend
Gun Play 1935
as Bill Williams
The Law of 45's 1935
as Tucson Two-Gun Smith
Powdersmoke Range 1935
as Lullaby Joslin
Danger Trails 1935
as Bob Wilson, Story
Society Fever 1935
as Edgar Prouty
Village Tale 1935
as Ben Roberts
The Glass Key 1935
as Jeff
Private Worlds 1935
as Jerry Stone
One in a Million 1935
as Spike McGafferty
Big Boy Rides Again 1935
as Tom Duncan
The Silver Streak 1934
as Higgins
Cowboy Holiday 1934
as Buck Sawyer
Flirtation Walk 1934
as Sleepy
Thunder Over Texas 1934
as Ted Wright
Romance in the Rain 1934
as Panya Mankiewicz
Here Comes the Navy 1934
as Dance-Floor Manager
Half a Sinner 1934
as 'Bull' Moran
Cheaters 1934
as Detective Sweeney
The Undie-World 1934
as Bugsy McHugh
Palooka 1934
as Slats (uncredited)
The Mystery Squadron 1933
as Bill 'Jellybean' Cook
College Coach 1933
as Matthews
Rafter Romance 1933
as Fritzie
Man of the Forest 1933
as Big Boy
Laughing at Life 1933
as Jones
The Phantom Broadcast 1933
as Sandy Higgins
The Devil Is Driving 1932
as Mac
You Said a Mouthful 1932
as Swimmer Joe Holt (uncredited)
- Boys Will Be Boys
Boys Will Be Boys 1932
as Butch
Heritage of the Desert 1932
as Lefty
70,000 Witnesses 1932
as Connors
Drifting Souls 1932
as Bing
Polly of the Circus 1932
as Eric
Ladies of the Jury 1932
as Steve Bromm (uncredited)
- Running Hollywood
Running Hollywood 1932
as Scratchface Henchman
War Mamas 1931
as Doughboy
The Phantom 1931
as Dick Mallory
Catch-As Catch-Can 1931
as Strangler Sullivan
The Great Meadow 1931
as Rubin Hall
The Bachelor Father 1931
as Dick Berney
College Lovers 1930
as Tiny Courtley
Liliom 1930
as Hollinger
The Bad Man 1930
as Red Giddings
The Big Fight 1930
as Tiger
City Girl 1930
as Reaper
The Forward Pass 1929
as Honey Smith
Lucky Star 1929
as Martin Wrenn
From Headquarters 1929
as Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer
My Man 1928
as Joe Halsey
Noah's Ark 1928
as Al Wilson / Ham
Beggars of Life 1928
as Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited)
Vamping Venus 1928
as Mars
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath 1928
as Sweeney
Burning Daylight 1928
as English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)
The College Widow 1927
as Don White (as Big Boy Williams)
The Down Grade 1927
as Ed Holden
Lightning 1927
as Cuth Stewart
The Woman Who Did Not Care 1927
as Lars
Babe Comes Home 1927
as Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams)
Snowbound 1927
as Bull Morgan
Arizona Bound 1927
as Cowboy
Backstage 1927
as Mike Donovan
Slide, Kelly, Slide 1927
as McLean
- Quarantined Rivals
Quarantined Rivals 1927
as Joe, the plumber
The Desert's Toll 1926
as Henchman
Brown of Harvard 1926
as Hal Walter
The Big Stunt 1925
Actor
The Black Cyclone 1925
as Jim Lawson
Courage of Wolfheart 1925
Actor
- Riders of the Sand Storm
Riders of the Sand Storm 1925
as The Cowboy
Rose of the Desert 1925
as Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams)
Whistling Jim 1925
as Whistling Jim
- Sporting West
Sporting West 1925
Actor
Bad Man from Bodie 1925
Actor
Wolfheart's Revenge 1925
as Jack Stanley
- Red Blood and Blue
Red Blood and Blue 1925
as Tom Butler, Story
Fangs of Wolfheart 1925
Actor
The Eagle's Claw 1924
as Dan Carson
The Avenger 1924
as Nat Sherwood
Uncensored Movies 1923
Actor
$1,000 Reward 1923
Actor
- End of the Rope
End of the Rope 1923
Actor
- Riders at Night
Riders at Night 1923
Actor
- Cyclone Jones
Cyclone Jones 1923
as Cyclone Jones
The Freshie 1922
as Charles Taylor
The Ropin' Fool 1922
as The Foreman
Blaze Away 1922
as Big Boy
Remembrance 1922
Actor
The Trail of Hate 1922
as Silent Kerry
The Cowboy King 1922
as Dud Smiley
Rounding Up the Law 1922
as Larry Connell
- Across the Border
Across the Border 1922
as Andy Fowler
- Western Firebrands
Western Firebrands 1921
as Billy Fargo
The Vengeance Trail 1921
as Big Boy Bronson, Story
The Jack Rider 1921
as Frank Stevens, Writer
Godless Men 1920
as Seaman
Cupid the Cowpuncher 1920
as Hairoil Johnson
Jubilo 1919
as Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited)
Almost a Husband 1919
Actor
Credits from TMDB.