Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Wagon Train
Calvin Bryngelson
1957
Series
Cheyenne
Prairie Dog
1955
Series
Tales of Wells Fargo
Mike Forbes
1957
Series
Gunsmoke
Groat
1955
Series
The Life Of Riley
Finnegan
1953
Series
Sugarfoot
Moose McKlintock
1957
Series
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Tulsa Jack
1951
Series
The Restless Gun
Jeff Bonsell
1957
Series
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Sgt. Muldoon
1954
Series
The Wonderful World of Disney
Buffalo
1954
Film
The Alamo
Lt. 'Irish' Finn
1960
Series
Circus Boy
1956
Series
My Friend Flicka
Jeb Taylor
1955
Film
The Comancheros
Ed McBain - Gunrunner (uncredited)
1961
Film
Springfield Rifle
Sgt. Snow
1952
Film
A Star Is Born
Posture Coach
1937
Film
You Only Live Once
Rogers
1937
Film
The Desperadoes
Nitro Rankin
1943
Film
Home from the Hill
Hugh Macauley (uncredited)
1960
Film
Dodge City
Tex Baird
1939
Film
Santa Fe Trail
Windy Brody
1940
Series
U.S. Marshall
Jones
1956
Film
Man from Del Rio
Fred Jasper
1956
Film
City Girl
Reaper
1930
Film
Virginia City
Marblehead
1940
Film
The Fighting 69th
Paddy Dolan
1940
Film
Beggars of Life
Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited)
1928
Film
Man in the Saddle
Bourke Prine
1951
Film
Billy the Kid
Ed Bronson (blacksmith)
1941
Film
The Littlest Rebel
Sergeant Dudley
1935
Film
You'll Never Get Rich
Kewpie Blain
1941
Film
You and Me
Taxi
1938
Sporting West
1925
Film
Army Girl
Ross
1938
Film
College Coach
Matthews
1933
Film
Station West
Mick Marion
1948
Film
Hangman's Knot
Smitty
1952
Film
Noah's Ark
Al Wilson / Ham
1928
Film
Flying Fists
Slug Cassidy
1937
Film
Whistling Jim
Whistling Jim
1925
Film
College Lovers
Tiny Courtley
1930
Film
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1941
Film
Southwest Passage
Tall Tale
1954
Film
Money and the Woman
Mr. Adle
1940
Film
The Singing Marine
Dopey
1937
Film
Gun Play
Bill Williams
1935
Film
Everybody's Doing It
'Softy' Blane
1938
Film
Snowbound
Bull Morgan
1927
Film
The Hired Gun
Elby Kirby
1957
Film
King of the Wild Horses
Jed Acker (as Big Boy Williams)
1947
Film
Castle on the Hudson
Mike Cagle
1940
Film
End of the Trail
Bob Hildreth
1936
Film
Swing in the Saddle
'Tiny' Baldwin
1944
Film
Swamp Water
Bud Dorson
1941
Film
Rocky Mountain
Pap Dennison (CSA)
1950
Film
Belle of the Yukon
Sheriff Mervin Maitland
1944
Film
Ladies of the Jury
Steve Bromm (uncredited)
1932
Film
Man of the Forest
Big Boy
1933
Film
Cowboy and the Senorita
'Teddy' Bear
1944
Film
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Lon Tuttle
1951
Film
Polly of the Circus
Eric
1932
Film
Half a Sinner
'Bull' Moran
1934
Film
Cowboy Holiday
Buck Sawyer
1934
Film
Riders of Death Valley
Borax Bill
1941
Film
Nevada
Dusty
1944
Film
American Empire
Sailaway
1942
Film
The Bad Man of Brimstone
Vulch McCreedy
1937
Film
You Said a Mouthful
Swimmer Joe Holt (uncredited)
1932
Film
Palooka
Slats (uncredited)
1934
Film
Danger Trails
Bob Wilson
1935
Film
The Freshie
Charles Taylor
1922
Film
Alias the Deacon
Bull Gumbatz
1940
Film
Minesweeper
CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith
1943
Film
Lucky Star
Martin Wrenn
1929
Film
Brimstone
Art Benson
1949
Film
Here Comes the Navy
Dance-Floor Manager
1934
Film
Backstage
Mike Donovan
1927
Film
The Bugle Sounds
Sgt. Krims
1942
Film
Big City
Danny Devlin
1937
Film
Blaze Away
Big Boy
1922
Film
Cheaters
Detective Sweeney
1934
Film
Wise Girl
Mike
1937
Film
Liliom
Hollinger
1930
Running Hollywood
Scratchface Henchman
1932
Film
Hidden Guns
Kingford
1956
Film
The Glass Key
Jeff
1935
Film
Love on a Bet
Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
1936
Film
Down in 'Arkansaw'
Juble Butler
1938
Film
Uncensored Movies
1923
Film
The Man Who Walked Alone
Champ
1945
Film
The Black Cyclone
Jim Lawson
1925
Film
Flirtation Walk
Sleepy
1934
Film
Silver Queen
Blackie
1942
Film
Professor Beware
Motorcycle Cop
1938
Film
Girls Can Play
Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan
1937
Film
The Big Fight
Tiger
1930
Film
Private Worlds
Jerry Stone
1935
Film
70,000 Witnesses
Connors
1932
Film
Wolfheart's Revenge
Jack Stanley
1925
Film
Blackmail
Moose McCarthy
1939
Film
Pardon Our Nerve
Samson Smith
1939
Film
Bad Men of Tombstone
Red Fisk
1949
Film
Lure of the Islands
Jinx
1942
Film
The Big Stunt
1925
Film
Babe Comes Home
Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams)
1927
Film
Powdersmoke Range
Lullaby Joslin
1935
Film
Bad Lands
Billy Sweet
1939
Film
The Silver Streak
Higgins
1934
Film
Courage of Wolfheart
1925
Film
Between Us Girls
Father of the Boys
1942
Film
Muss 'em Up
'Red' Cable
1936
Film
Singin' in the Corn
Hank
1946
Film
Wagons Westward
Jake Hardman
1940
Film
The Bad Man
Red Giddings
1930
Film
Country Fair
Gunther Potts
1941
Film
The Great Meadow
Rubin Hall
1931
Film
Rafter Romance
Fritzie
1933
Film
Miss Pacific Fleet
Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend
1935
Film
Hold That Co-ed
Mike Wurgerski
1938
Film
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
Sweeney
1928
Film
The Devil Is Driving
Mac
1932
Boys Will Be Boys
Butch
1932
Film
Lightning
Cuth Stewart
1927
Film
Fangs of Wolfheart
1925
Film
Burning Daylight
English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)
1928
Film
Romance in the Rain
Panya Mankiewicz
1934
Film
Vamping Venus
Mars
1928
Film
Rose of the Desert
Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams)
1925
Film
Heritage of the Desert
Lefty
1932
Film
From Headquarters
Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer
1929
Film
Society Fever
Edgar Prouty
1935
Film
Brown of Harvard
Hal Walter
1926
Film
My Dear Miss Aldrich
An Attendant
1937
Film
The Big Game
Pete Jenkins
1936
Film
The Bachelor Father
Dick Berney
1931
Film
Almost a Husband
1919
Film
Bad Man from Bodie
1925
Film
Laughing at Life
Jones
1933
Film
The Eagle's Claw
Dan Carson
1924
Film
The Down Grade
Ed Holden
1927
Red Blood and Blue
Tom Butler
1925
Film
Village Tale
Ben Roberts
1935
Film
Fugitive at Large
Conway (as Guinn Williams)
1939
Film
Cowboy Canteen
Spud Harrigan
1944
Film
Dulcy
Henry
1940
Film
Road to the Big House
Butch McQuinn
1947
Film
North of Nome
Haage
1936
Film
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Blake - the First Mate
1939
Film
The Ropin' Fool
The Foreman
1922
Film
Song of the Prairie
Big Boy Jackson
1945
Film
Singing on the Trail
Big Boy Webster
1946
Film
Hands Across the Border
Teddy Bear
1944
Riders of the Sand Storm
The Cowboy
1925
Film
Cowboy Blues
Big Boy Stover
1946
Film
Mr. Wise Guy
Luke Manning
1942
Film
Don't Tell the Wife
Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal
1937
Film
Jubilo
Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited)
1919
Film
The Phantom
Dick Mallory
1931
Film
That Texas Jamboree
Big Boy Frazer
1946
Film
I Demand Payment
Happy Crofton
1938
Film
The Vigilantes Are Coming
Salvation
1936
Film
The Marines Are Here
Sgt. Gibbons
1938
Film
Massacre Canyon
Pvt. Archibald Allen
1954
Film
6,000 Enemies
Maxie
1939
Film
Crashing Through Danger
Slim
1938
Film
Career Woman
Bede Sanders
1936
Film
Drifting Souls
Bing
1932
Film
Stars on Horseback
1943
Film
Slide, Kelly, Slide
McLean
1927
Buttons and Her Beaus
1962
Film
One in a Million
Spike McGafferty
1935
Film
The Mystery Squadron
Bill 'Jellybean' Cook
1933
Film
Street of Missing Men
T-Bone
1939
Film
Arizona Bound
Cowboy
1927
Film
Legion of Lost Flyers
Jake Halley
1939
Film
Godless Men
Seaman
1920
Film
Rounding Up the Law
Larry Connell
1922
Film
Dangerous Holiday
Duke Edwards
1937
Film
The Phantom Broadcast
Sandy Higgins
1933
Film
Kelly the Second
Cecil Joseph Callahan
1936
Film
Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
Alvin
1941
Film
War Mamas
Doughboy
1931
Film
Over the Santa Fe Trail
Big Boy Jackson
1947
Film
Sing Me a Song of Texas
Big Boy
1945
Across the Border
Andy Fowler
1922
Film
Smoky Mountain Melody
Saddle Grease Williams
1948
Film
Cupid the Cowpuncher
Hairoil Johnson
1920
Film
The College Widow
Don White (as Big Boy Williams)
1927
Film
The Outlaw's Daughter
Moose, Deputy
1954
Film
Grand Jury
Joseph Britt
1936
Film
Remembrance
1922
Film
The Forward Pass
Honey Smith
1929
Film
The Law of 45's
Tucson Two-Gun Smith
1935
Film
The Undie-World
Bugsy McHugh
1934
Film
Smoky River Serenade
Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams)
1947
Film
Hoedown
Small Potatoes
1950
Film
The Desert's Toll
Henchman
1926
Film
The Cowboy King
Dud Smiley
1922
Film
Fremont: The Trailblazer
Cassidy
1956
Film
Catch-As Catch-Can
Strangler Sullivan
1931
Film
She's No Lady
Jeff
1937
Film
Five Bold Women
'Big Foot' - the wagon driver
1960
Film
Rhythm Round-Up
Zeke Winslow
1945
Film
Thunder Over Texas
Ted Wright
1934
Film
The Jack Rider
Frank Stevens
1921
Film
Pleased to Mitt You
Chuck Brenner
1940
Film
Throw a Saddle on a Star
Big Boy
1946
Film
Big Boy Rides Again
Tom Duncan
1935
Cyclone Jones
Cyclone Jones
1923
Film
My Man
Joe Halsey
1928
Film
The Champ's a Chump
Spike
1936
Film
The Avenger
Nat Sherwood
1924
Film
The Woman Who Did Not Care
Lars
1927
Quarantined Rivals
Joe, the plumber
1927
Film
$1,000 Reward
1923
End of the Rope
1923
Western Firebrands
Billy Fargo
1921
Riders at Night
1923
Film
The Trail of Hate
Silent Kerry
1922
Film
The Vengeance Trail
Big Boy Bronson
1921