Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Guinn 'Big Boy' 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. 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.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
224
Gender
Male
Birthday
1899-04-25 (126 years old)
Place of Birth
Decatur, Texas, USA
Acting

1962

Buttons and Her Beaus as Not available

1961

The Comancheros as Ed McBain - Gunrunner (uncredited)

1960

The Alamo as Lt. 'Irish' Finn

1960

Home from the Hill as Hugh Macauley (uncredited)

1960

Five Bold Women as 'Big Foot' - the wagon driver

1957

Tales of Wells Fargo as Mike Forbes

1957

Wagon Train as Calvin Bryngelson

1957

The Restless Gun as Jeff Bonsell

1957

Sugarfoot as Moose McKlintock

1957

The Hired Gun as Elby Kirby

1956

Circus Boy as Not available

1956

U.S. Marshall as Jones

1956

Man from Del Rio as Fred Jasper

1956

Hidden Guns as Kingford

1956

Fremont: The Trailblazer as Cassidy

1955

Cheyenne as Prairie Dog

1955

Gunsmoke as Groat

1955

My Friend Flicka as Jeb Taylor

1954

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin as Sgt. Muldoon

1954

Southwest Passage as Tall Tale

1954

The Outlaw's Daughter as Moose, Deputy

1954

Massacre Canyon as Pvt. Archibald Allen

1953

The Life Of Riley as Finnegan

1952

Springfield Rifle as Sgt. Snow

1952

Hangman's Knot as Smitty

1951

Man in the Saddle as Bourke Prine

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

Station West as Mick Marion

1948

Smoky Mountain Melody as Saddle Grease Williams

1947

King of the Wild Horses as Jed Acker (as Big Boy Williams)

1947

Smoky River Serenade as Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams)

1947

Road to the Big House as Butch McQuinn

1947

Over the Santa Fe Trail as Big Boy Jackson

1946

Singing on the Trail as Big Boy Webster

1946

Throw a Saddle on a Star as Big Boy

1946

Cowboy Blues as Big Boy Stover

1946

Singin' in the Corn as Hank

1946

That Texas Jamboree as Big Boy Frazer

1945

Sing Me a Song of Texas as Big Boy

1945

Rhythm Round-Up as Zeke Winslow

1945

Song of the Prairie as Big Boy Jackson

1944

Cowboy and the Senorita as 'Teddy' Bear

1944

Hands Across the Border as Teddy Bear

1944

Belle of the Yukon as Sheriff Mervin Maitland

1944

Nevada as Dusty

1944

Cowboy Canteen as Spud Harrigan

1944

Swing in the Saddle as 'Tiny' Baldwin

1943

The Desperadoes as Nitro Rankin

1943

Minesweeper as CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith

1943

Stars on Horseback as Not available

1942

American Empire as Sailaway

1942

Silver Queen as Blackie

1942

Between Us Girls as Father of the Boys

1942

The Bugle Sounds as Sgt. Krims

1942

Mr. Wise Guy as Luke Manning

1942

Lure of the Islands as Jinx

1941

Mr. Bug Goes to Town as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

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

Swamp Water as Bud Dorson

1941

Country Fair as Gunther Potts

1940

Santa Fe Trail as Windy Brody

1940

Virginia City as Marblehead

1940

The Fighting 69th as Paddy Dolan

1940

Castle on the Hudson as Mike Cagle

1940

Alias the Deacon as Bull Gumbatz

1940

Dulcy as Henry

1940

Money and the Woman as Mr. Adle

1940

Pleased to Mitt You as Chuck Brenner

1940

Wagons Westward as Jake Hardman

1939

Dodge City as Tex Baird

1939

Blackmail as Moose McCarthy

1939

6,000 Enemies as Maxie

1939

Bad Lands as Billy Sweet

1939

Mutiny on the Blackhawk as Blake - the First Mate

1939

Pardon Our Nerve as Samson Smith

1939

Street of Missing Men as T-Bone

1939

Legion of Lost Flyers as Jake Halley

1939

Fugitive at Large as Conway (as Guinn Williams)

1938

You and Me as Taxi

1938

Professor Beware as Motorcycle Cop

1938

Hold That Co-ed as Mike Wurgerski

1938

Everybody's Doing It as 'Softy' Blane

1938

Army Girl as Ross

1938

The Marines Are Here as Sgt. Gibbons

1938

I Demand Payment as Happy Crofton

1938

Down in 'Arkansaw' as Juble Butler

1937

A Star Is Born as Posture Coach

1937

You Only Live Once as Rogers

1937

Big City as Danny Devlin

1937

My Dear Miss Aldrich as An Attendant

1937

Girls Can Play as Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan

1937

The Singing Marine as Dopey

1937

Flying Fists as Slug Cassidy

1937

The Bad Man of Brimstone as Vulch McCreedy

1937

Don't Tell the Wife as Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal

1937

Wise Girl as Mike

1937

She's No Lady as Jeff

1937

Dangerous Holiday as Duke Edwards

1936

Love on a Bet as Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)

1936

Muss 'em Up as 'Red' Cable

1936

The Big Game as Pete Jenkins

1936

Career Woman as Bede Sanders

1936

Grand Jury as Joseph Britt

1936

The Vigilantes Are Coming as Salvation

1936

Kelly the Second as Cecil Joseph Callahan

1936

End of the Trail as Bob Hildreth

1936

The Champ's a Chump as Spike

1936

North of Nome as Haage

1935

Big Boy Rides Again as Tom Duncan

1935

The Littlest Rebel as Sgt. Dudley

1935

Private Worlds as Jerry Stone

1935

The Glass Key as Jeff

1935

Society Fever as Edgar Prouty

1935

Village Tale as Ben Roberts

1935

Miss Pacific Fleet as Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend

1935

The Law of 45's as Tucson Two-Gun Smith

1935

Powdersmoke Range as Lullaby Joslin

1935

Gun Play as Bill Williams

1935

One in a Million as Spike McGafferty

1935

Danger Trails as Bob Wilson

1934

The Silver Streak as Higgins

1934

Here Comes the Navy as Dance-Floor Manager

1934

Flirtation Walk as Sleepy

1934

Palooka as Slats (uncredited)

1934

Cowboy Holiday as Buck Sawyer

1934

Half a Sinner as 'Bull' Moran

1934

Romance in the Rain as Panya Mankiewicz

1934

The Undie-World as Bugsy McHugh

1934

Cheaters as Detective Sweeney

1934

Thunder Over Texas as Ted Wright

1933

College Coach as Matthews

1933

Man of the Forest as Big Boy

1933

Rafter Romance as Fritzie

1933

Laughing at Life as Jones

1933

The Phantom Broadcast as Sandy Higgins

1933

The Mystery Squadron as Bill 'Jellybean' Cook

1932

Ladies of the Jury as Steve Bromm (uncredited)

1932

Polly of the Circus as Eric

1932

You Said a Mouthful as Swimming Champion Joe Holt (uncredited)

1932

Boys Will Be Boys as Butch

1932

Running Hollywood as Scratchface Henchman

1932

70,000 Witnesses as Connors

1932

Drifting Souls as Bing

1931

The Bachelor Father as Dick Berney

1931

War Mamas as Doughboy

1931

The Great Meadow as Rubin Hall

1931

The Phantom as Dick Mallory

1931

Catch-As Catch-Can as Strangler Sullivan

1930

City Girl as Reaper

1930

Liliom as Hollinger

1930

The Bad Man as Red Giddings

1930

College Lovers as Tiny Courtley

1930

The Big Fight as Tiger

1929

Lucky Star as Sgt. Martin Wrenn

1929

From Headquarters as Gunnery Sgt. Wilmer (as Guinn Williams)

1929

The Forward Pass as Honey Smith

1928

Noah's Ark as Al Wilson / Ham

1928

Beggars of Life as Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited)

1928

Vamping Venus as Mars

1928

My Man as Joe Halsey

1928

Burning Daylight as English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)

1927

Snowbound as Bull Morgan

1927

Babe Comes Home as Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams)

1927

Quarantined Rivals as Joe, the plumber

1927

Lightning as Cuth Stewart

1927

The College Widow as Don White (as Big Boy Williams)

1927

Slide, Kelly, Slide as McLean

1927

Arizona Bound as Cowboy

1927

The Down Grade as Ed Holden

1927

Backstage as Mike Donovan

1926

The Desert's Toll as Henchman

1926

Brown of Harvard as Hal Walter

1925

Black Cyclone as Jim Lawson

1925

Bad Man from Bodie as Not available

1925

Whistling Jim as Whistling Jim

1925

The Big Stunt as Not available

1925

Wolfheart's Revenge as Jack Stanley

1925

Courage of Wolfheart as Not available

1925

Red Blood and Blue as Tom Butler

1925

Sporting West as Not available

1925

Rose of the Desert as Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams)

1925

Fangs of Wolfheart as Not available

1925

Riders of the Sand Storm as The Cowboy

1924

The Avenger as Nat Sherwood

1924

The Eagle's Claw as Dan Carson

1923

Uncensored Movies as Not available

1923

Cyclone Jones as Cyclone Jones

1923

$1,000 Reward as Not available

1923

End of the Rope as Not available

1923

Riders at Night as Not available

1922

Rounding Up the Law as Larry Connell

1922

Remembrance as Not available

1922

The Ropin' Fool as The Foreman

1922

The Trail of Hate as Silent Kerry

1922

The Cowboy King as Dud Smiley

1922

Blaze Away as Big Boy

1922

Across the Border as Andy Fowler

1922

The Freshie as Charles Taylor

1921

The Jack Rider as Frank Stevens

1921

Western Firebrands as Billy Fargo

1921

The Vengeance Trail as Big Boy Bronson

1920

Godless Men as Seaman

1920

Cupid the Cowpuncher as Hairoil Johnson

1919

Jubilo as Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited)

1919

Almost a Husband as Not available
Crew

1935

Danger Trails Story

1921

The Jack Rider Writer