Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Acting
🎂 1899-04-25
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.
Cast credits(220)
Calvin Bryngelson
1957
Prairie Dog
1955
Groat
1955
Moose McKlintock
1957
Mike Forbes
1957
Jeff Bonsell
1957
Finnegan
1953
Tulsa Jack
1951
Lt. 'Irish' Finn
1960
1956
Jeb Taylor
1955
Sgt. Muldoon
1954
Buffalo
1954
Ed McBain - Gunrunner (uncredited)
1961
Gunther Potts
1941
Tex Baird
1939
Al Wilson / Ham
1928
Alvin
1941
Posture Coach
1937
Cowboy
1927
Jerry Stone
1935
Bourke Prine
1951
Danny Devlin
1937
Nitro Rankin
1943
Kingford
1956
Sgt. Dudley
1935
Rogers
1937
Windy Brody
1940
Pap Dennison (CSA)
1950
Borax Bill
1941
Mac
1932
Blake - the First Mate
1939
Ross
1938
Marblehead
1940
Saddle Grease Williams
1948
Jones
1956
Ed Bronson (blacksmith)
1941
Champ
1945
Mick Marion
1948
Paddy Dolan
1940
Sheriff Mervin Maitland
1944
Sgt. Snow
1952
'Red' Cable
1936
Tall Tale
1954
Panya Mankiewicz
1934
Pete Jenkins
1936
Art Benson
1949
Vulch McCreedy
1937
Hugh Macauley (uncredited)
1960
Taxi
1938
Maxie
1939
Hal Walter
1926
Bill 'Jellybean' Cook
1933
Teddy Bear
1944
Kewpie Blain
1941
Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal
1937
Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
1936
Dopey
1937
Motorcycle Cop
1938
Samson Smith
1939
Henry
1940
Scratchface Henchman
1932
Fred Jasper
1956
Dance-Floor Manager
1934
Fritzie
1933
Mike Cagle
1940
Moose, Deputy
1954
Big Boy Webster
1946
Dusty
1944
Matthews
1933
Cecil Joseph Callahan
1936
Mr. Adle
1940
Reaper
1930
Tucson Two-Gun Smith
1935
Bede Sanders
1936
Jeff
1935
CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith
1943
Bud Dorson
1941
An Attendant
1937
Moose McCarthy
1939
Big Boy
1933
Jeff
1937
Zeke Winslow
1945
Hank
1946
Billy Sweet
1939
Higgins
1934
'Teddy' Bear
1944
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1941
Father of the Boys
1942
Spud Harrigan
1944
Elby Kirby
1957
Luke Manning
1942
Mike
1937
Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend
1935
Blackie
1942
Smitty
1952
Sailaway
1942
Bull Gumbatz
1940
Seaman
1920
Tom Duncan
1935
Lullaby Joslin
1935
Bob Hildreth
1936
Connors
1932
Slats (uncredited)
1934
Duke Edwards
1937
Bill Williams
1935
Mike Donovan
1927
Big Boy Jackson
1947
'Bull' Moran
1934
Jones
1933
Tiny Courtley
1930
Ben Roberts
1935
Joseph Britt
1936
English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)
1928
Sgt. Krims
1942
Mike Wurgerski
1938
1923
Pvt. Archibald Allen
1954
Hollinger
1930
Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer
1929
Sgt. Gibbons
1938
Don White (as Big Boy Williams)
1927
Sleepy
1934
Joe Halsey
1928
Jim Lawson
1925
Lon Tuttle
1951
Small Potatoes
1950
Jake Halley
1939
Eric
1932
T-Bone
1939
McLean
1927
Dan Carson
1924
1925
Tiger
1930
Sgt. Martin Wrenn
1929
Dick Mallory
1931
Salvation
1936
1922
Strangler Sullivan
1931
Bull Morgan
1927
Dick Berney
1931
Big Boy
1946
Steve Bromm (uncredited)
1932
Hairoil Johnson
1920
Bugsy McHugh
1934
Red Giddings
1930
Red Fisk
1949
Big Boy Stover
1946
Ted Wright
1934
Detective Sweeney
1934
Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited)
1928
'Softy' Blane
1938
Haage
1936
Buck Sawyer
1934
1962
Lefty
1932
1919
Rubin Hall
1931
Lars
1927
Spike McGafferty
1935
Butch McQuinn
1947
Juble Butler
1938
Conway (as Guinn Williams)
1939
Charles Taylor
1922
Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited)
1919
Big Boy Frazer
1946
Mars
1928
Henchman
1926
Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan
1937
Ed Holden
1927
Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams)
1927
Happy Crofton
1938
Sandy Higgins
1933
'Tiny' Baldwin
1944
Slim
1938
Joe, the plumber
1927
Slug Cassidy
1937
1925
Bing
1932
Bob Wilson
1935
Swimming Champion Joe Holt (uncredited)
1932
Larry Connell
1922
The Foreman
1922
Cassidy
1956
Spike
1936
Cyclone Jones
1923
Cuth Stewart
1927
'Big Foot' - the wagon driver
1960
1943
Butch
1932
Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams)
1947
Andy Fowler
1922
Chuck Brenner
1940
Big Boy
1945
Dud Smiley
1922
Jack Stanley
1925
Jed Acker (as Big Boy Williams)
1947
Big Boy Bronson
1921
1925
Jinx
1942
1923
Doughboy
1931
Billy Fargo
1921
1923
Silent Kerry
1922
Honey Smith
1929
Big Boy Jackson
1945
Big Boy
1922
Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams)
1925
1925
Frank Stevens
1921
Jake Hardman
1940
Edgar Prouty
1935
Tom Butler
1925
1925
The Cowboy
1925
Sweeney
1928
Nat Sherwood
1924
Whistling Jim
1925
1923