Guinn "Big Boy" Williams

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.

Credits

Year Title Character
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