Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
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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.
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Movies (207)
Buttons and Her Beaus
1962
The Comancheros
1961 · Ed McBain - Gunrunner (uncredited)
The Alamo
1960 · Lt. 'Irish' Finn
Five Bold Women
1960 · 'Big Foot' - the wagon driver
Home from the Hill
1960 · Hugh Macauley (uncredited)
The Hired Gun
1957 · Elby Kirby
Man from Del Rio
1956 · Fred Jasper
Hidden Guns
1956 · Kingford
Fremont: The Trailblazer
1956 · Cassidy
The Outlaw's Daughter
1954 · Moose, Deputy
Massacre Canyon
1954 · Pvt. Archibald Allen
Southwest Passage
1954 · Tall Tale
Hangman's Knot
1952 · Smitty
Springfield Rifle
1952 · Sgt. Snow
Man in the Saddle
1951 · Bourke Prine
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
1951 · Lon Tuttle
Rocky Mountain
1950 · Pap Dennison (CSA)
Hoedown
1950 · Small Potatoes
Brimstone
1949 · Art Benson
Bad Men of Tombstone
1949 · Red Fisk
Smoky Mountain Melody
1948 · Saddle Grease Williams
Station West
1948 · Mick Marion
Road to the Big House
1947 · Butch McQuinn
Smoky River Serenade
1947 · Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams)
King of the Wild Horses
1947 · Jed Acker
Over the Santa Fe Trail
1947 · Big Boy Jackson
Singin' in the Corn
1946 · Hank
Singing on the Trail
1946 · Big Boy Webster
Cowboy Blues
1946 · Big Boy Stover
That Texas Jamboree
1946 · Big Boy Frazer
Throw a Saddle on a Star
1946 · Big Boy
Song of the Prairie
1945 · Big Boy Jackson
Rhythm Round-Up
1945 · Zeke Winslow
The Man Who Walked Alone
1945 · Champ
Sing Me a Song of Texas
1945 · Big Boy
Belle of the Yukon
1944 · Sheriff Mervin Maitland
Nevada
1944 · Dusty
Swing in the Saddle
1944 · 'Tiny' Baldwin
Cowboy and the Senorita
1944 · 'Teddy' Bear
Cowboy Canteen
1944 · Spud Harrigan
Hands Across the Border
1944 · Teddy Bear
Minesweeper
1943 · CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith
The Desperadoes
1943 · Nitro Rankin
Stars on Horseback
1943
American Empire
1942 · Sailaway
Silver Queen
1942 · Blackie
Between Us Girls
1942 · Father of the Boys
Lure of the Islands
1942 · Jinx
Mr. Wise Guy
1942 · Luke Manning
The Bugle Sounds
1942 · Sgt. Krims
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
1941 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Swamp Water
1941 · Bud Dorson
You'll Never Get Rich
1941 · Kewpie Blain
Riders of Death Valley
1941 · Borax Bill
Billy the Kid
1941 · Ed Bronson (blacksmith)
Country Fair
1941 · Gunther Potts
Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
1941 · Alvin
Santa Fe Trail
1940 · Windy Brody
Dulcy
1940 · Henry
Pleased to Mitt You
1940 · Chuck Brenner
Money and the Woman
1940 · Mr. Adle
Wagons Westward
1940 · Jake Hardman
Alias the Deacon
1940 · Bull Gumbatz
Virginia City
1940 · Marblehead
Castle on the Hudson
1940 · Mike Cagle
The Fighting 69th
1940 · Paddy Dolan
Fugitive at Large
1939 · Conway (as Guinn Williams)
Legion of Lost Flyers
1939 · Jake Halley
Blackmail
1939 · Moose McCarthy
Bad Lands
1939 · Billy Sweet
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
1939 · Blake - the First Mate
6,000 Enemies
1939 · Maxie
Street of Missing Men
1939 · T-Bone
Dodge City
1939 · Tex Baird
Pardon Our Nerve
1939 · Samson Smith
I Demand Payment
1938 · Happy Crofton
Down in 'Arkansaw'
1938 · Juble Butler
Hold That Co-ed
1938 · Mike Wurgerski
Crashing Through Danger
1938 · Slim
Army Girl
1938 · Ross
Professor Beware
1938 · Motorcycle Cop
The Marines Are Here
1938 · Sgt. Gibbons
You and Me
1938 · Taxi
Everybody's Doing It
1938 · 'Softy' Blane
Wise Girl
1937 · Mike
The Bad Man of Brimstone
1937 · Vulch McCreedy
My Dear Miss Aldrich
1937 · An Attendant
Big City
1937 · Danny Devlin
She's No Lady
1937 · Jeff
The Singing Marine
1937 · Dopey
Flying Fists
1937 · Slug Cassidy
Girls Can Play
1937 · Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan
Dangerous Holiday
1937 · Duke Edwards
A Star Is Born
1937 · Posture Coach
Don't Tell the Wife
1937 · Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal
You Only Live Once
1937 · Rogers
Career Woman
1936 · Bede Sanders
North of Nome
1936 · Haage
End of the Trail
1936 · Bob Hildreth
The Big Game
1936 · Pete Jenkins
Kelly the Second
1936 · Cecil Joseph Callahan
The Vigilantes Are Coming
1936 · Salvation
Grand Jury
1936 · Joseph Britt
The Champ's a Chump
1936 · Spike
Love on a Bet
1936 · Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
Muss 'em Up
1936 · 'Red' Cable
The Littlest Rebel
1935 · Sergeant Dudley
Miss Pacific Fleet
1935 · Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend
Gun Play
1935 · Bill Williams
The Law of 45's
1935 · Tucson Two-Gun Smith
Powdersmoke Range
1935 · Lullaby Joslin
Danger Trails
1935 · Bob Wilson, Story
Society Fever
1935 · Edgar Prouty
The Glass Key
1935 · Jeff
Village Tale
1935 · Ben Roberts
Private Worlds
1935 · Jerry Stone
One in a Million
1935 · Spike McGafferty
Big Boy Rides Again
1935 · Tom Duncan
The Silver Streak
1934 · Higgins
Cowboy Holiday
1934 · Buck Sawyer
Flirtation Walk
1934 · Sleepy
Thunder Over Texas
1934 · Ted Wright
Romance in the Rain
1934 · Panya Mankiewicz
Here Comes the Navy
1934 · Dance-Floor Manager
Half a Sinner
1934 · 'Bull' Moran
Cheaters
1934 · Detective Sweeney
The Undie-World
1934 · Bugsy McHugh
Palooka
1934 · Slats (uncredited)
The Mystery Squadron
1933 · Bill 'Jellybean' Cook
College Coach
1933 · Matthews
Rafter Romance
1933 · Fritzie
Man of the Forest
1933 · Big Boy
Laughing at Life
1933 · Jones
The Phantom Broadcast
1933 · Sandy Higgins
The Devil Is Driving
1932 · Mac
You Said a Mouthful
1932 · Swimmer Joe Holt (uncredited)
Boys Will Be Boys
1932 · Butch
Heritage of the Desert
1932 · Lefty
70,000 Witnesses
1932 · Connors
Drifting Souls
1932 · Bing
Polly of the Circus
1932 · Eric
Ladies of the Jury
1932 · Steve Bromm (uncredited)
Running Hollywood
1932 · Scratchface Henchman
War Mamas
1931 · Doughboy
The Phantom
1931 · Dick Mallory
Catch-As Catch-Can
1931 · Strangler Sullivan
The Great Meadow
1931 · Rubin Hall
The Bachelor Father
1931 · Dick Berney
College Lovers
1930 · Tiny Courtley
Liliom
1930 · Hollinger
The Bad Man
1930 · Red Giddings
The Big Fight
1930 · Tiger
City Girl
1930 · Reaper
The Forward Pass
1929 · Honey Smith
Lucky Star
1929 · Martin Wrenn
From Headquarters
1929 · Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer
My Man
1928 · Joe Halsey
Noah's Ark
1928 · Al Wilson / Ham
Beggars of Life
1928 · Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited)
Vamping Venus
1928 · Mars
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
1928 · Sweeney
Burning Daylight
1928 · English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)
The College Widow
1927 · Don White (as Big Boy Williams)
The Down Grade
1927 · Ed Holden
Lightning
1927 · Cuth Stewart
The Woman Who Did Not Care
1927 · Lars
Babe Comes Home
1927 · Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams)
Snowbound
1927 · Bull Morgan
Arizona Bound
1927 · Cowboy
Backstage
1927 · Mike Donovan
Slide, Kelly, Slide
1927 · McLean
Quarantined Rivals
1927 · Joe, the plumber
The Desert's Toll
1926 · Henchman
Brown of Harvard
1926 · Hal Walter
The Big Stunt
1925
The Black Cyclone
1925 · Jim Lawson
Courage of Wolfheart
1925
Riders of the Sand Storm
1925 · The Cowboy
Rose of the Desert
1925 · Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams)
Whistling Jim
1925 · Whistling Jim
Sporting West
1925
Bad Man from Bodie
1925
Wolfheart's Revenge
1925 · Jack Stanley
Red Blood and Blue
1925 · Tom Butler, Story
Fangs of Wolfheart
1925
The Eagle's Claw
1924 · Dan Carson
The Avenger
1924 · Nat Sherwood
Uncensored Movies
1923
$1,000 Reward
1923
End of the Rope
1923
Riders at Night
1923
Cyclone Jones
1923 · Cyclone Jones
The Freshie
1922 · Charles Taylor
The Ropin' Fool
1922 · The Foreman
Blaze Away
1922 · Big Boy
Remembrance
1922
The Trail of Hate
1922 · Silent Kerry
The Cowboy King
1922 · Dud Smiley
Rounding Up the Law
1922 · Larry Connell
Across the Border
1922 · Andy Fowler
Western Firebrands
1921 · Billy Fargo
The Vengeance Trail
1921 · Big Boy Bronson, Story
The Jack Rider
1921 · Frank Stevens, Writer
Godless Men
1920 · Seaman
Cupid the Cowpuncher
1920 · Hairoil Johnson
Jubilo
1919 · Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited)
Almost a Husband
1919
TV shows (13)
U.S. Marshall
1958 · Jones
The Restless Gun
1957 · Jeff Bonsell
Wagon Train
1957 · Calvin Bryngelson
Sugarfoot
1957 · Moose McKlintock
Tales of Wells Fargo
1957 · Mike Forbes
Circus Boy
1956
My Friend Flicka
1955 · Jeb Taylor
Cheyenne
1955 · Prairie Dog
Gunsmoke
1955 · Groat
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Buffalo
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1954 · Sgt. Muldoon
The Life Of Riley
1953 · Finnegan
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951 · Tulsa Jack