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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1899-04-25
Place of birth
Decatur, Texas, USA
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Cast
Santa Fe Trail
1940
5.70
American Empire
1942
3.80
Mr. Wise Guy
1942
6.13
A Star Is Born
1937
7.17
Castle on the Hudson
1940
6.80
Fugitive at Large
1939
6.00
You'll Never Get Rich
1941
6.45
Jubilo
1919
5.30
Fangs of Wolfheart
1925
0.00
Bad Man from Bodie
1925
0.00
Rose of the Desert
1925
0.00
Courage of Wolfheart
1925
0.00
The Big Stunt
1925
0.00
The Glass Key
1935
6.40
Station West
1948
6.21
Man in the Saddle
1951
6.40
The Littlest Rebel
1935
6.20
Swamp Water
1941
6.30
Belle of the Yukon
1944
5.40
Rocky Mountain
1950
5.70
Dodge City
1939
6.90
Cowboy and the Senorita
1944
3.70
Road to the Big House
1947
5.70
You Only Live Once
1937
7.10
Big City
1937
7.40
Hands Across the Border
1944
5.50
Hangman's Knot
1952
6.40
Minesweeper
1943
5.00
The Woman Who Did Not Care
1927
0.00
Man from Del Rio
1956
6.29
Flirtation Walk
1934
5.60
Beggars of Life
1928
7.10
Brown of Harvard
1926
5.30
Lucky Star
1929
7.58
Noah's Ark
1928
6.17
Private Worlds
1935
6.00
Blackmail
1939
6.40
Rafter Romance
1933
6.50
Springfield Rifle
1952
6.30
Billy the Kid
1941
4.98
Kelly the Second
1936
6.00
Slide, Kelly, Slide
1927
0.00
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
1951
5.00
The Phantom
1931
3.88
Big Boy Rides Again
1935
5.00
Heritage of the Desert
1932
4.50
The Ropin' Fool
1922
6.00
You and Me
1938
6.50
The Mystery Squadron
1933
6.00
The Hired Gun
1957
5.50
Wise Girl
1937
7.00
Miss Pacific Fleet
1935
4.00
College Coach
1933
4.13
Black Cyclone
1925
5.70
Man of the Forest
1933
5.50
Song of the Prairie
1945
0.00
The Law of 45's
1935
5.00
Army Girl
1938
6.00
Polly of the Circus
1932
5.20
Cowboy Holiday
1934
3.00
Grand Jury
1936
7.00
Thunder Over Texas
1934
5.00
The Vigilantes Are Coming
1936
5.50
The Man Who Walked Alone
1945
5.60
The Big Game
1936
5.80
The Bachelor Father
1931
6.00
Dangerous Holiday
1937
1.00
Flying Fists
1937
5.00
Bad Lands
1939
3.70
Money and the Woman
1940
3.50
One in a Million
1935
5.00
The Silver Streak
1934
6.80
Gun Play
1935
5.00
Hold That Co-ed
1938
6.30
The Great Meadow
1931
5.00
Running Hollywood
1932
0.00
Drifting Souls
1932
0.00
Laughing at Life
1933
6.00
Cheaters
1934
0.00
Muss 'em Up
1936
5.50
Love on a Bet
1936
7.00
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
1941
6.20
Fremont: The Trailblazer
1956
0.00
Buttons and Her Beaus
1962
0.00
Village Tale
1935
4.50
Cyclone Jones
1923
0.00
Riders at Night
1923
0.00
End of the Rope
1923
0.00
Uncensored Movies
1923
7.50
$1,000 Reward
1923
0.00
The Avenger
1924
0.00
Red Blood and Blue
1925
0.00
Sporting West
1925
0.00
Whistling Jim
1925
0.00
Riders of the Sand Storm
1925
0.00
The Devil Is Driving
1932
4.90
Almost a Husband
1919
0.00
Quarantined Rivals
1927
0.00
Backstage
1927
0.00
The Down Grade
1927
0.00
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
1928
0.00
City Girl
1930
7.43
College Lovers
1930
0.00
The Big Fight
1930
2.70
Brimstone
1949
6.30
Five Bold Women
1960
5.00
Southwest Passage
1954
5.40
Crashing Through Danger
1938
3.00
Massacre Canyon
1954
5.00
Nevada
1944
6.20
The Forward Pass
1929
0.00
6,000 Enemies
1939
6.00
Everybody's Doing It
1938
5.00
The Bad Man of Brimstone
1937
6.00
She's No Lady
1937
0.00
My Dear Miss Aldrich
1937
6.10
Danger Trails
1935
0.00
Cupid the Cowpuncher
1920
0.00
The Singing Marine
1937
4.00
Here Comes the Navy
1934
5.90
Palooka
1934
3.00
The Trail of Hate
1922
0.00
The Fighting 69th
1940
5.50
The Alamo
1960
7.10
Don't Tell the Wife
1937
5.00
War Mamas
1931
0.00
Catch-As Catch-Can
1931
1.00
Swing in the Saddle
1944
0.00
Alias the Deacon
1940
0.00
Virginia City
1940
6.10
You Said a Mouthful
1932
5.00
That Texas Jamboree
1946
0.00
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
1939
0.00
Professor Beware
1938
6.10
The Undie-World
1934
9.00
Pleased to Mitt You
1940
5.00
Hoedown
1950
5.00
Wagons Westward
1940
6.00
Sing Me a Song of Texas
1945
0.00
Smoky River Serenade
1947
0.00
The Comancheros
1961
6.70
The Jack Rider
1921
0.00
The Vengeance Trail
1921
0.00
Western Firebrands
1921
0.00
Across the Border
1922
0.00
Rounding Up the Law
1922
0.00
The Cowboy King
1922
0.00
Remembrance
1922
0.00
Blaze Away
1922
0.00
The Freshie
1922
0.00
Country Fair
1941
0.00
The Desperadoes
1943
5.70
Society Fever
1935
6.00
Home from the Hill
1960
6.73
Singing on the Trail
1946
0.00
The Outlaw's Daughter
1954
0.00
Throw a Saddle on a Star
1946
0.00
Girls Can Play
1937
4.00
Powdersmoke Range
1935
0.00
End of the Trail
1936
8.00
North of Nome
1936
6.00
Down in 'Arkansaw'
1938
5.00
The Bad Man
1930
0.00
Street of Missing Men
1939
9.00
Riders of Death Valley
1941
6.50
Pardon Our Nerve
1939
0.00
Legion of Lost Flyers
1939
3.70
Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
1941
5.00
Lure of the Islands
1942
5.00
Cowboy Canteen
1944
0.00
Between Us Girls
1942
6.00
Wolfheart's Revenge
1925
7.00
The Marines Are Here
1938
0.00
My Man
1928
0.00
Smoky Mountain Melody
1948
6.00
Silver Queen
1942
5.70
Rhythm Round-Up
1945
0.00
Cowboy Blues
1946
0.00
King of the Wild Horses
1947
0.00
Over the Santa Fe Trail
1947
0.00
Bad Men of Tombstone
1949
6.30
Dulcy
1940
5.80
Hidden Guns
1956
5.00
Career Woman
1936
6.00
Ladies of the Jury
1932
6.40
The Champ's a Chump
1936
0.00
Godless Men
1920
1.00
From Headquarters
1929
0.00
Liliom
1930
6.80
The College Widow
1927
0.00
Vamping Venus
1928
0.00
Snowbound
1927
0.00
The Bugle Sounds
1942
6.00
70,000 Witnesses
1932
5.00
Boys Will Be Boys
1932
0.00
Half a Sinner
1934
0.00
Romance in the Rain
1934
0.00
Singin' in the Corn
1946
0.00
Burning Daylight
1928
4.33
The Eagle's Claw
1924
0.00
Stars on Horseback
1943
4.00
I Demand Payment
1938
3.67
The Desert's Toll
1926
0.00
The Phantom Broadcast
1933
4.30
Babe Comes Home
1927
0.00
Arizona Bound
1927
0.00
Lightning
1927
6.00