Birthday: 1899-04-25
Deathday: 1962-06-06
Birthplace: Decatur, Texas, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned
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.
Year | Title | Character | |
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1962-01-01 | Buttons and Her Beaus | ||
1961-12-16 | The Comancheros | Ed McBain - Gunrunner (uncredited) | |
1960-10-23 | The Alamo | Lt. 'Irish' Finn | |
1960-08-01 | Five Bold Women | 'Big Foot' - the wagon driver | |
1960-03-03 | Home from the Hill | Hugh Macauley (uncredited) | |
1957-09-20 | The Hired Gun | Elby Kirby | |
1956-10-30 | Man from Del Rio | Fred Jasper | |
1956-01-30 | Hidden Guns | Kingford | |
1956-01-01 | Fremont: The Trailblazer | Cassidy | |
1954-11-01 | The Outlaw's Daughter | Moose, Deputy | |
1954-05-01 | Massacre Canyon | Pvt. Archibald Allen | |
1954-04-01 | Southwest Passage | Tall Tale | |
1952-11-15 | Hangman's Knot | Smitty | |
1952-10-22 | Springfield Rifle | Sgt. Snow | |
1951-12-02 | Man in the Saddle | Bourke Prine | |
1951-01-17 | Al Jennings of Oklahoma | Lon Tuttle | |
1950-11-11 | Rocky Mountain | Pap Dennison (CSA) | |
1950-06-01 | Hoedown | Small Potatoes | |
1949-08-15 | Brimstone | Art Benson | |
1949-01-21 | Bad Men of Tombstone | Red Fisk | |
1948-12-16 | Smoky Mountain Melody | Saddle Grease Williams | |
1948-09-01 | Station West | Mick Marion | |
1947-12-13 | Road to the Big House | Butch McQuinn | |
1947-08-20 | Smoky River Serenade | Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams) | |
1947-03-28 | King of the Wild Horses | Jed Acker (as Big Boy Williams) | |
1947-02-13 | Over the Santa Fe Trail | Big Boy Jackson | |
1946-12-26 | Singin' in the Corn | Hank | |
1946-09-01 | Singing on the Trail | Big Boy Webster | |
1946-07-18 | Cowboy Blues | Big Boy Stover | |
1946-05-16 | That Texas Jamboree | Big Boy Frazer | |
1946-03-14 | Throw a Saddle on a Star | Big Boy | |
1945-09-27 | Song of the Prairie | Big Boy Jackson | |
1945-09-06 | Rhythm Round-Up | Zeke Winslow | |
1945-03-15 | The Man Who Walked Alone | Champ | |
1945-02-08 | Sing Me a Song of Texas | Big Boy | |
1944-12-27 | Belle of the Yukon | Sheriff Mervin Maitland | |
1944-12-25 | Nevada | Dusty | |
1944-07-30 | Swing in the Saddle | 'Tiny' Baldwin | |
1944-05-13 | Cowboy and the Senorita | 'Teddy' Bear | |
1944-02-09 | Cowboy Canteen | Spud Harrigan | |
1944-01-05 | Hands Across the Border | Teddy Bear | |
1943-11-10 | Minesweeper | CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith | |
1943-05-25 | The Desperadoes | Nitro Rankin | |
1943-04-23 | Stars on Horseback | ||
1942-12-11 | American Empire | Sailaway | |
1942-11-14 | Silver Queen | Blackie | |
1942-09-04 | Between Us Girls | Father of the Boys | |
1942-07-03 | Lure of the Islands | Jinx | |
1942-02-20 | Mr. Wise Guy | Luke Manning | |
1942-01-30 | The Bugle Sounds | Sgt. Krims | |
1941-11-16 | Swamp Water | Bud Dorson | |
1941-09-25 | You'll Never Get Rich | Kewpie Blain | |
1941-07-01 | Riders of Death Valley | Borax Bill | |
1941-05-30 | Billy the Kid | Ed Bronson (blacksmith) | |
1941-05-05 | Country Fair | Gunther Potts | |
1941-01-17 | Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga | Alvin | |
1940-12-20 | Santa Fe Trail | Windy Brody | |
1940-10-04 | Dulcy | Henry | |
1940-09-06 | Pleased to Mitt You | Chuck Brenner | |
1940-08-17 | Money and the Woman | Mr. Adle | |
1940-06-19 | Wagons Westward | Jake Hardman | |
1940-05-13 | Alias the Deacon | Bull Gumbatz | |
1940-03-23 | Virginia City | Marblehead | |
1940-02-17 | Castle on the Hudson | Mike Cagle | |
1940-01-27 | The Fighting 69th | Paddy Dolan | |
1939-12-07 | Fugitive at Large | Conway (as Guinn Williams) | |
1939-11-02 | Legion of Lost Flyers | Jake Halley | |
1939-09-08 | Blackmail | Moose McCarthy | |
1939-08-28 | Bad Lands | Billy Sweet | |
1939-07-31 | Mutiny on the Blackhawk | Blake - the First Mate | |
1939-06-09 | 6,000 Enemies | Maxie | |
1939-04-24 | Street of Missing Men | T-Bone | |
1939-04-08 | Dodge City | Tex Baird | |
1939-02-24 | Pardon Our Nerve | Samson Smith | |
1938-12-13 | I Demand Payment | Happy Crofton | |
1938-10-07 | Down in 'Arkansaw' | Juble Butler | |
1938-09-16 | Hold That Co-ed | Mike Wurgerski | |
1938-09-14 | Crashing Through Danger | Slim | |
1938-08-11 | Army Girl | Ross | |
1938-07-29 | Professor Beware | Motorcycle Cop | |
1938-06-08 | The Marines Are Here | Sgt. Gibbons | |
1938-06-01 | You and Me | Text (as Guinn Williams) | |
1938-01-14 | Everybody's Doing It | 'Softy' Blane | |
1937-12-31 | Wise Girl | Mike | |
1937-12-31 | The Bad Man of Brimstone | Vulch McCreedy | |
1937-09-17 | My Dear Miss Aldrich | An Attendant | |
1937-09-03 | Big City | Danny Devlin | |
1937-08-20 | She's No Lady | Jeff | |
1937-07-03 | The Singing Marine | Dopey | |
1937-07-01 | Flying Fists | Slug Cassidy | |
1937-06-23 | Girls Can Play | Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan | |
1937-06-06 | Dangerous Holiday | Duke Edwards | |
1937-04-27 | A Star Is Born | Posture Coach | |
1937-03-05 | Don't Tell the Wife | Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal | |
1937-01-23 | You Only Live Once | Rogers | |
1936-12-18 | Career Woman | Bede Sanders | |
1936-11-14 | North of Nome | Haage | |
1936-10-10 | End of the Trail | Bob Hildreth | |
1936-10-09 | The Big Game | Pete Jenkins | |
1936-08-21 | Kelly the Second | Cecil Joseph Callahan | |
1936-08-21 | The Vigilantes Are Coming | Salvation | |
1936-08-07 | Grand Jury | Joseph Britt | |
1936-06-20 | The Champ's a Chump | Spike | |
1936-03-06 | Love on a Bet | Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted) | |
1936-02-13 | Muss 'em Up | 'Red' Cable | |
1935-12-27 | The Littlest Rebel | Sgt. Dudley | |
1935-12-14 | Miss Pacific Fleet | Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend | |
1935-12-02 | Gun Play | Bill Williams | |
1935-12-01 | The Law of 45's | Tucson Two-Gun Smith | |
1935-09-27 | Powdersmoke Range | Lullaby Joslin | |
1935-09-10 | Here Comes Cookie | Big Boy | |
1935-08-02 | Danger Trails | Bob Wilson | |
1935-07-15 | Society Fever | Edgar Prouty | |
1935-06-15 | The Glass Key | Jeff | |
1935-06-15 | Village Tale | Ben Roberts | |
1935-04-19 | Private Worlds | Jerry Stone | |
1935-03-21 | One in a Million | Spike McGafferty | |
1935-01-05 | Big Boy Rides Again | Tom Duncan | |
1934-12-21 | The Silver Streak | Higgins | |
1934-12-14 | Cowboy Holiday | Buck Sawyer | |
1934-12-01 | Flirtation Walk | Sleepy | |
1934-10-18 | Thunder Over Texas | Ted Wright | |
1934-08-13 | Romance in the Rain | Panya Mankiewicz | |
1934-07-21 | Here Comes the Navy | Dance-Floor Manager | |
1934-06-01 | Half a Sinner | 'Bull' Moran | |
1934-05-11 | Cheaters | Detective Sweeney | |
1934-04-03 | The Undie-World | Bugsy McHugh | |
1934-01-26 | Palooka | Slats (uncredited) | |
1933-12-21 | The Mystery Squadron | Bill 'Jellybean' Cook | |
1933-11-04 | College Coach | Matthews | |
1933-09-01 | Rafter Romance | Fritzie | |
1933-08-24 | Man of the Forest | Big Boy | |
1933-07-12 | Laughing at Life | Jones | |
1933-03-14 | The Phantom Broadcast | Sandy Higgins | |
1932-12-09 | The Devil Is Driving | Mac | |
1932-11-30 | Boys Will Be Boys | Butch | |
1932-11-18 | You Said a Mouthful | Swimming Champion Joe Holt (uncredited) | |
1932-09-30 | Heritage of the Desert | Lefty | |
1932-09-09 | 70,000 Witnesses | Connors | |
1932-08-07 | Drifting Souls | Bing | |
1932-02-27 | Polly of the Circus | Eric | |
1932-02-02 | Ladies of the Jury | Steve Bromm (uncredited) | |
1932-01-27 | Running Hollywood | Scratchface Henchman | |
1931-11-14 | War Mamas | Doughboy | |
1931-11-01 | The Phantom | Dick Mallory | |
1931-08-22 | Catch-As Catch-Can | Strangler Sullivan | |
1931-01-24 | The Great Meadow | Rubin Hall | |
1931-01-10 | The Bachelor Father | Dick Berney | |
1930-10-05 | College Lovers | Tiny Courtley | |
1930-09-27 | Liliom | Hollinger | |
1930-09-11 | The Bad Man | Red Giddings | |
1930-05-11 | The Big Fight | Tiger | |
1930-01-12 | City Girl | Reaper | |
1929-11-10 | The Forward Pass | Honey Smith | |
1929-08-18 | Lucky Star | Sgt. Martin Wrenn | |
1929-04-27 | From Headquarters | Gunnery Sgt. Wilmer (as Guinn Williams) | |
1928-12-15 | My Man | Joe Halsey | |
1928-11-01 | Noah's Ark | Al Wilson / Ham | |
1928-09-22 | Beggars of Life | Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited) | |
1928-05-13 | Vamping Venus | Mars | |
1928-03-31 | Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath | Sweeney | |
1928-03-10 | Burning Daylight | English Harry (as Big Boy Williams) | |
1927-10-15 | The College Widow | Don White (as Big Boy Williams) | |
1927-07-25 | The Down Grade | Ed Holden | |
1927-07-15 | Lightning | Cuth Stewart | |
1927-07-05 | The Woman Who Did Not Care | Lars | |
1927-05-22 | Babe Comes Home | Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams) | |
1927-05-01 | Snowbound | Bull Morgan | |
1927-04-09 | Arizona Bound | Cowboy | |
1927-04-01 | Backstage | Mike Donovan | |
1927-03-12 | Slide, Kelly, Slide | McLean | |
1927-02-28 | Quarantined Rivals | Joe, the plumber | |
1926-11-14 | The Desert's Toll | Henchman | |
1926-05-02 | Brown of Harvard | Hal Walter | |
1925-11-01 | The Big Stunt | ||
1925-09-26 | Black Cyclone | Jim Lawson | |
1925-09-23 | Courage of Wolfheart | ||
1925-09-09 | Riders of the Sand Storm | The Cowboy | |
1925-08-18 | Rose of the Desert | Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams) | |
1925-06-19 | Whistling Jim | Whistling Jim | |
1925-04-13 | Sporting West | ||
1925-04-07 | Bad Man from Bodie | ||
1925-03-04 | Wolfheart's Revenge | Jack Stanley | |
1925-02-25 | Red Blood and Blue | Tom Butler | |
1925-01-01 | Fangs of Wolfheart | ||
1924-02-10 | The Eagle's Claw | Dan Carson | |
1924-01-01 | The Avenger | Nat Sherwood | |
1923-12-09 | Uncensored Movies | ||
1923-12-01 | $1,000 Reward | ||
1923-10-01 | Riders at Night | ||
1923-10-01 | End of the Rope | ||
1923-09-01 | Cyclone Jones | Cyclone Jones | |
1922-12-19 | The Freshie | Charles Taylor | |
1922-10-29 | The Ropin' Fool | The Foreman | |
1922-10-01 | Blaze Away | Big Boy | |
1922-10-01 | Remembrance | ||
1922-09-30 | The Trail of Hate | Silent Kerry | |
1922-05-01 | The Cowboy King | Dud Smiley | |
1922-04-15 | Rounding Up the Law | Larry Connell | |
1922-02-15 | Across the Border | Andy Fowler | |
1921-11-01 | Western Firebrands | Billy Fargo | |
1921-10-14 | The Vengeance Trail | Big Boy Bronson | |
1921-09-15 | The Jack Rider | Frank Stevens | |
1920-11-06 | Godless Men | Seaman | |
1920-07-25 | Cupid the Cowpuncher | Hairoil Johnson | |
1919-12-07 | Jubilo | Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited) | |
1919-10-11 | Almost a Husband |