Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
207 movies · 13 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 25, 1899
- Died
- Jun 6, 1962 (age 63)
- Place of birth
- Decatur, Texas, USA
- Also known as
- Guinn Terrell Williams Jr. · Big Boy Williams · Gwinn Williams · Gwynn 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.
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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.
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Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams: movies and TV shows
Acting (220)
- 1962
- 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)
- 1958
- 1957
- 1957 The Hired Gun
as Elby Kirby
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1956 Man from Del Rio
as Fred Jasper
- 1956
- 1956 Hidden Guns
as Kingford
- 1956 Fremont: The Trailblazer
as Cassidy
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1954 The Outlaw's Daughter
as Moose, Deputy
- 1954
- 1954
- 1954 Massacre Canyon
as Pvt. Archibald Allen
- 1954 Southwest Passage
as Tall Tale
- 1953
- 1952 Hangman's Knot
as Smitty
- 1952 Springfield Rifle
as Sgt. Snow
- 1951 Man in the Saddle
as Bourke Prine
- 1951
- 1951 Al Jennings of Oklahoma
as Lon Tuttle
- 1950 Rocky Mountain
as Pap Dennison (CSA)
- 1950 Hoedown
as Small Potatoes
- 1949 Brimstone
as Art Benson
- 1949 Bad Men of Tombstone
as Red Fisk
- 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
- 1947 Over the Santa Fe Trail
as Big Boy Jackson
- 1946 Singin' in the Corn
as Hank
- 1946 Singing on the Trail
as Big Boy Webster
- 1946 Cowboy Blues
as Big Boy Stover
- 1946 That Texas Jamboree
as Big Boy Frazer
- 1946 Throw a Saddle on a Star
as Big Boy
- 1945 Song of the Prairie
as Big Boy Jackson
- 1945 Rhythm Round-Up
as Zeke Winslow
- 1945 The Man Who Walked Alone
as Champ
- 1945 Sing Me a Song of Texas
as Big Boy
- 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 Hands Across the Border
as Teddy Bear
- 1943 Minesweeper
as CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith
- 1943 The Desperadoes
as Nitro Rankin
- 1943
- 1942 American Empire
as Sailaway
- 1942 Silver Queen
as Blackie
- 1942 Between Us Girls
as Father of the Boys
- 1942 Lure of the Islands
as Jinx
- 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 Riders of Death Valley
as Borax Bill
- 1941 Billy the Kid
as Ed Bronson (blacksmith)
- 1941 Country Fair
as Gunther Potts
- 1941 Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
as Alvin
- 1940 Santa Fe Trail
as Windy Brody
- 1940 Dulcy
as Henry
- 1940 Pleased to Mitt You
as Chuck Brenner
- 1940 Money and the Woman
as Mr. Adle
- 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 Street of Missing Men
as T-Bone
- 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 Crashing Through Danger
as Slim
- 1938 Army Girl
as Ross
- 1938 Professor Beware
as Motorcycle Cop
- 1938 The Marines Are Here
as Sgt. Gibbons
- 1938 You and Me
as Taxi
- 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 She's No Lady
as Jeff
- 1937 The Singing Marine
as Dopey
- 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 You Only Live Once
as Rogers
- 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 The Vigilantes Are Coming
as Salvation
- 1936 Grand Jury
as Joseph Britt
- 1936 The Champ's a Chump
as Spike
- 1936 Love on a Bet
as Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
- 1936 Muss 'em Up
as 'Red' Cable
- 1935 The Littlest Rebel
as Sergeant 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 Danger Trails
as Bob Wilson
- 1935 Society Fever
as Edgar Prouty
- 1935 The Glass Key
as Jeff
- 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 The Silver Streak
as Higgins
- 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 Man of the Forest
as Big Boy
- 1933 Laughing at Life
as Jones
- 1933 The Phantom Broadcast
as Sandy Higgins
- 1932 The Devil Is Driving
as Mac
- 1932 You Said a Mouthful
as Swimmer Joe Holt (uncredited)
- 1932 Boys Will Be Boys
as Butch
- 1932 Heritage of the Desert
as Lefty
- 1932 70,000 Witnesses
as Connors
- 1932 Drifting Souls
as Bing
- 1932 Polly of the Circus
as Eric
- 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 Martin Wrenn
- 1929 From Headquarters
as Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer
- 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 Vamping Venus
as Mars
- 1928 Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
as Sweeney
- 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 The Woman Who Did Not Care
as Lars
- 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 Slide, Kelly, Slide
as McLean
- 1927 Quarantined Rivals
as Joe, the plumber
- 1926 The Desert's Toll
as Henchman
- 1926 Brown of Harvard
as Hal Walter
- 1925
- 1925 The Black Cyclone
as Jim Lawson
- 1925
- 1925 Riders of the Sand Storm
as The Cowboy
- 1925 Rose of the Desert
as Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams)
- 1925 Whistling Jim
as Whistling Jim
- 1925
- 1925
- 1925 Wolfheart's Revenge
as Jack Stanley
- 1925 Red Blood and Blue
as Tom Butler
- 1925
- 1924 The Eagle's Claw
as Dan Carson
- 1924 The Avenger
as Nat Sherwood
+ 20 more credits
Behind the camera (4)
- 1935 Danger Trails
Story
- 1925 Red Blood and Blue
Story
- 1921 The Vengeance Trail
Story
- 1921 The Jack Rider
Writer