Guinn "Big Boy" Williams

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

Santa Fe Trail

(Windy Brody)

American Empire

(Sailaway)

Mr. Wise Guy

(Luke Manning)

A Star Is Born

(Posture Coach)

Castle on the Hudson

(Mike Cagle)

Fugitive at Large

(Conway (as Guinn Williams))

You'll Never Get Rich

(Kewpie Blain)

Jubilo

(Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited))

Fangs of Wolfheart

Bad Man from Bodie

Rose of the Desert

(Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams))

Courage of Wolfheart

The Big Stunt

The Glass Key

(Jeff)

Station West

(Mick Marion)

Man in the Saddle

(Bourke Prine)

The Littlest Rebel

(Sgt. Dudley)

Swamp Water

(Bud Dorson)

Belle of the Yukon

(Sheriff Mervin Maitland)

Rocky Mountain

(Pap Dennison (CSA))

Dodge City

(Tex Baird)

Cowboy and the Senorita

('Teddy' Bear)

Road to the Big House

(Butch McQuinn)

You Only Live Once

(Rogers)

Big City

(Danny Devlin)

Hands Across the Border

(Teddy Bear)

Hangman's Knot

(Smitty)

Minesweeper

(CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith)

The Woman Who Did Not Care

(Lars)

Man from Del Rio

(Fred Jasper)

Flirtation Walk

(Sleepy)

Beggars of Life

(Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited))

Brown of Harvard

(Hal Walter)

Lucky Star

(Sgt. Martin Wrenn)

Noah's Ark

(Al Wilson / Ham)

Private Worlds

(Jerry Stone)

Blackmail

(Moose McCarthy)

Rafter Romance

(Fritzie)

Springfield Rifle

(Sgt. Snow)

Billy the Kid

(Ed Bronson (blacksmith))

Kelly the Second

(Cecil Joseph Callahan)

Slide, Kelly, Slide

(McLean)

Al Jennings of Oklahoma

(Lon Tuttle)

The Phantom

(Dick Mallory)

Big Boy Rides Again

(Tom Duncan)

Heritage of the Desert

(Lefty)

The Ropin' Fool

(The Foreman)

You and Me

(Text (as Guinn Williams))

The Mystery Squadron

(Bill 'Jellybean' Cook)

The Hired Gun

(Elby Kirby)

Wise Girl

(Mike)

Miss Pacific Fleet

(Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend)

College Coach

(Matthews)

Black Cyclone

(Jim Lawson)

Man of the Forest

(Big Boy)

Song of the Prairie

(Big Boy Jackson)

The Law of 45's

(Tucson Two-Gun Smith)

Army Girl

(Ross)

Polly of the Circus

(Eric)

Cowboy Holiday

(Buck Sawyer)

Grand Jury

(Joseph Britt)

Thunder Over Texas

(Ted Wright)

The Vigilantes Are Coming

(Salvation)

The Man Who Walked Alone

(Champ)

Here Comes Cookie

(Big Boy)

The Big Game

(Pete Jenkins)

The Bachelor Father

(Dick Berney)

Dangerous Holiday

(Duke Edwards)

Flying Fists

(Slug Cassidy)

Bad Lands

(Billy Sweet)

Money and the Woman

(Mr. Adle)

One in a Million

(Spike McGafferty)

The Silver Streak

(Higgins)

Gun Play

(Bill Williams)

Hold That Co-ed

(Mike Wurgerski)

The Great Meadow

(Rubin Hall)

Running Hollywood

(Scratchface Henchman)

Drifting Souls

(Bing)

Laughing at Life

(Jones)

Cheaters

(Detective Sweeney)

Muss 'em Up

('Red' Cable)

Love on a Bet

(Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted))

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

(Narrator (voice) (uncredited))

Fremont: The Trailblazer

(Cassidy)

Buttons and Her Beaus

Village Tale

(Ben Roberts)

Cyclone Jones

(Cyclone Jones)

Riders at Night

End of the Rope

Uncensored Movies

$1,000 Reward

The Avenger

(Nat Sherwood)

Red Blood and Blue

(Tom Butler)

Sporting West

Whistling Jim

(Whistling Jim)

Riders of the Sand Storm

(The Cowboy)

The Devil Is Driving

(Mac)

Almost a Husband

Quarantined Rivals

(Joe, the plumber)

Backstage

(Mike Donovan)

The Down Grade

(Ed Holden)

Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath

(Sweeney)

City Girl

(Reaper)

College Lovers

(Tiny Courtley)

The Big Fight

(Tiger)

Brimstone

(Art Benson)

Five Bold Women

('Big Foot' - the wagon driver)

Southwest Passage

(Tall Tale)

Crashing Through Danger

(Slim)

Massacre Canyon

(Pvt. Archibald Allen)

Nevada

(Dusty)

The Forward Pass

(Honey Smith)

6,000 Enemies

(Maxie)

Everybody's Doing It

('Softy' Blane)

The Bad Man of Brimstone

(Vulch McCreedy)

She's No Lady

(Jeff)

My Dear Miss Aldrich

(An Attendant)

Danger Trails

(Bob Wilson)

Cupid the Cowpuncher

(Hairoil Johnson)

The Singing Marine

(Dopey)

Here Comes the Navy

(Dance-Floor Manager)

Palooka

(Slats (uncredited))

The Trail of Hate

(Silent Kerry)

The Fighting 69th

(Paddy Dolan)

The Alamo

(Lt. 'Irish' Finn)

Don't Tell the Wife

(Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal)

War Mamas

(Doughboy)

Catch-As Catch-Can

(Strangler Sullivan)

Swing in the Saddle

('Tiny' Baldwin)

Alias the Deacon

(Bull Gumbatz)

Virginia City

(Marblehead)

You Said a Mouthful

(Swimming Champion Joe Holt (uncredited))

That Texas Jamboree

(Big Boy Frazer)

Mutiny on the Blackhawk

(Blake - the First Mate)

Professor Beware

(Motorcycle Cop)

The Undie-World

(Bugsy McHugh)

Pleased to Mitt You

(Chuck Brenner)

Hoedown

(Small Potatoes)

Wagons Westward

(Jake Hardman)

Sing Me a Song of Texas

(Big Boy)

Smoky River Serenade

(Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams))

The Comancheros

(Ed McBain - Gunrunner (uncredited))

The Jack Rider

(Frank Stevens)

The Vengeance Trail

(Big Boy Bronson)

Western Firebrands

(Billy Fargo)

Across the Border

(Andy Fowler)

Rounding Up the Law

(Larry Connell)

The Cowboy King

(Dud Smiley)

Remembrance

Blaze Away

(Big Boy)

The Freshie

(Charles Taylor)

Country Fair

(Gunther Potts)

The Desperadoes

(Nitro Rankin)

Society Fever

(Edgar Prouty)

Home from the Hill

(Hugh Macauley (uncredited))

Singing on the Trail

(Big Boy Webster)

The Outlaw's Daughter

(Moose, Deputy)

Throw a Saddle on a Star

(Big Boy)

Girls Can Play

(Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan)

Powdersmoke Range

(Lullaby Joslin)

End of the Trail

(Bob Hildreth)

North of Nome

(Haage)

Down in 'Arkansaw'

(Juble Butler)

The Bad Man

(Red Giddings)

Street of Missing Men

(T-Bone)

Riders of Death Valley

(Borax Bill)

Pardon Our Nerve

(Samson Smith)

Legion of Lost Flyers

(Jake Halley)

Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga

(Alvin)

Lure of the Islands

(Jinx)

Cowboy Canteen

(Spud Harrigan)

Between Us Girls

(Father of the Boys)

Wolfheart's Revenge

(Jack Stanley)

The Marines Are Here

(Sgt. Gibbons)

My Man

(Joe Halsey)

Smoky Mountain Melody

(Saddle Grease Williams)

Silver Queen

(Blackie)

Rhythm Round-Up

(Zeke Winslow)

Cowboy Blues

(Big Boy Stover)

King of the Wild Horses

(Jed Acker (as Big Boy Williams))

Over the Santa Fe Trail

(Big Boy Jackson)

Bad Men of Tombstone

(Red Fisk)

Dulcy

(Henry)

Hidden Guns

(Kingford)

Career Woman

(Bede Sanders)

Ladies of the Jury

(Steve Bromm (uncredited))

The Champ's a Chump

(Spike)

Godless Men

(Seaman)

From Headquarters

(Gunnery Sgt. Wilmer (as Guinn Williams))

Liliom

(Hollinger)

The College Widow

(Don White (as Big Boy Williams))

Vamping Venus

(Mars)

Snowbound

(Bull Morgan)

The Bugle Sounds

(Sgt. Krims)

70,000 Witnesses

(Connors)

Boys Will Be Boys

(Butch)

Half a Sinner

('Bull' Moran)

Romance in the Rain

(Panya Mankiewicz)

Singin' in the Corn

(Hank)

Burning Daylight

(English Harry (as Big Boy Williams))

The Eagle's Claw

(Dan Carson)

Stars on Horseback

I Demand Payment

(Happy Crofton)

The Desert's Toll

(Henchman)

The Phantom Broadcast

(Sandy Higgins)

Babe Comes Home

(Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams))

Arizona Bound

(Cowboy)

Lightning

(Cuth Stewart)

Cheyenne

(Prairie Dog)

Gunsmoke

(Groat)

The Restless Gun

(Jeff Bonsell)

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

(Tulsa Jack)

Sugarfoot

(Moose McKlintock)

Circus Boy

My Friend Flicka

(Jeb Taylor)

The Life Of Riley

(Finnegan)

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

(Sgt. Muldoon)

U.S. Marshall

(Jones)

Tales of Wells Fargo

(Mike Forbes)

The Wonderful World of Disney

(Buffalo)

Wagon Train

(Calvin Bryngelson)