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
| Birth Location | Decatur, Texas, USA |
|---|---|
| Born | 1899-04-25 |
| Died | 1962-06-06 |
Movies
The Comancheros
as Ed McBain - Gunrunner (uncredited)
1961
The Alamo
as Lt. 'Irish' Finn
1960
Five Bold Women
as 'Big Foot' - the wagon driver
1960
Home from the Hill
as Hugh Macauley (uncredited)
1960
The Hired Gun
as Elby Kirby
1957
Man from Del Rio
as Fred Jasper
1956
Hidden Guns
as Kingford
1956
Fremont: The Trailblazer
as Cassidy
1956
The Outlaw's Daughter
as Moose, Deputy
1954
Massacre Canyon
as Pvt. Archibald Allen
1954
Southwest Passage
as Tall Tale
1954
Hangman's Knot
as Smitty
1952
Springfield Rifle
as Sgt. Snow
1952
Man in the Saddle
as Bourke Prine
1951
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
as Lon Tuttle
1951
Rocky Mountain
as Pap Dennison (CSA)
1950
Hoedown
as Small Potatoes
1950
Brimstone
as Art Benson
1949
Bad Men of Tombstone
as Red Fisk
1949
Smoky Mountain Melody
as Saddle Grease Williams
1948
Station West
as Mick Marion
1948
Road to the Big House
as Butch McQuinn
1947
Smoky River Serenade
as Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams)
1947
King of the Wild Horses
as Jed Acker (as Big Boy Williams)
1947
Over the Santa Fe Trail
as Big Boy Jackson
1947
Singin' in the Corn
as Hank
1946
Singing on the Trail
as Big Boy Webster
1946
Cowboy Blues
as Big Boy Stover
1946
That Texas Jamboree
as Big Boy Frazer
1946
Throw a Saddle on a Star
as Big Boy
1946
Song of the Prairie
as Big Boy Jackson
1945
Rhythm Round-Up
as Zeke Winslow
1945
The Man Who Walked Alone
as Champ
1945
Sing Me a Song of Texas
as Big Boy
1945
Belle of the Yukon
as Sheriff Mervin Maitland
1944
Nevada
as Dusty
1944
Swing in the Saddle
as 'Tiny' Baldwin
1944
Cowboy and the Senorita
as 'Teddy' Bear
1944
Cowboy Canteen
as Spud Harrigan
1944
Hands Across the Border
as Teddy Bear
1944
Minesweeper
as CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith
1943
The Desperadoes
as Nitro Rankin
1943
1943
American Empire
as Sailaway
1942
Silver Queen
as Blackie
1942
Between Us Girls
as Father at Soda Fountain
1942
Lure of the Islands
as Jinx
1942
Mr. Wise Guy
as Luke Manning
1942
The Bugle Sounds
as Sgt. Krims
1942
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1941
Swamp Water
as Bud Dorson
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
Country Fair
as Gunther Potts
1941
Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
as Alvin
1941
Santa Fe Trail
as Windy Brody
1940
Dulcy
as Henry
1940
Pleased to Mitt You
as Chuck Brenner
1940
Money and the Woman
as Mr. Adle
1940
Wagons Westward
as Jake Hardman
1940
Alias the Deacon
as Bull Gumbatz
1940
Virginia City
as Marblehead
1940
Castle on the Hudson
as Mike Cagle
1940
The Fighting 69th
as Paddy Dolan
1940
Fugitive at Large
as Conway (as Guinn Williams)
1939
Legion of Lost Flyers
as Jake Halley
1939
Blackmail
as Moose McCarthy
1939
Bad Lands
as Billy Sweet
1939
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
as Blake - the First Mate
1939
6,000 Enemies
as Maxie
1939
Street of Missing Men
as T-Bone
1939
Dodge City
as Tex Baird
1939
Pardon Our Nerve
as Samson Smith
1939
I Demand Payment
as Happy Crofton
1938
Down in 'Arkansaw'
as Juble Butler
1938
Hold That Co-ed
as Mike Wurgerski
1938
Crashing Through Danger
as Slim
1938
Army Girl
as Ross
1938
Professor Beware
as Motorcycle Cop
1938
The Marines Are Here
as Sgt. Gibbons
1938
You and Me
as Text (as Guinn Williams)
1938
Everybody's Doing It
as 'Softy' Blane
1938
The Bad Man of Brimstone
as Vulch McCreedy
1937
Wise Girl
as Mike
1937
My Dear Miss Aldrich
as An Attendant
1937
Big City
as Danny Devlin
1937
She's No Lady
as Jeff
1937
The Singing Marine
as Dopey
1937
Flying Fists
as Slug Cassidy
1937
Girls Can Play
as Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan
1937
Dangerous Holiday
as Duke Edwards
1937
A Star Is Born
as Posture Coach
1937
Don't Tell the Wife
as Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal
1937
You Only Live Once
as Rogers
1937
Career Woman
as Bede Sanders
1936
North of Nome
as Haage
1936
End of the Trail
as Bob Hildreth
1936
The Big Game
as Pete Jenkins
1936
The Vigilantes Are Coming
as Salvation
1936
Kelly the Second
as Cecil Joseph Callahan
1936
Grand Jury
as Joseph Britt
1936
The Champ's a Chump
as Spike
1936
Love on a Bet
as Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
1936
Muss 'em Up
as 'Red' Cable
1936
The Littlest Rebel
as Sgt. Dudley
1935
Miss Pacific Fleet
as Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend
1935
Gun Play
as Bill Williams
1935
The Law of 45's
as Tucson Two-Gun Smith
1935
Powdersmoke Range
as Lullaby Joslin
1935
Here Comes Cookie
as Big Boy
1935
Danger Trails
as Bob Wilson
1935
Society Fever
as Edgar Prouty
1935
Village Tale
as Ben Roberts
1935
The Glass Key
as Jeff
1935
Private Worlds
as Jerry Stone
1935
One in a Million
as Spike McGafferty
1935
Big Boy Rides Again
as Tom Duncan
1935
The Silver Streak
as Higgins
1934
Cowboy Holiday
as Buck Sawyer
1934
Flirtation Walk
as Sleepy
1934
Thunder Over Texas
as Ted Wright
1934
Romance in the Rain
as Panya Mankiewicz
1934
Here Comes the Navy
as Dance-Floor Manager
1934
Half a Sinner
as 'Bull' Moran
1934
Cheaters
as Detective Sweeney
1934
The Undie-World
as Bugsy McHugh
1934
Palooka
as Slats (uncredited)
1934
The Mystery Squadron
as Bill 'Jellybean' Cook
1933
College Coach
as Matthews
1933
Rafter Romance
as Fritzie
1933
Man of the Forest
as Big Boy
1933
Laughing at Life
as Jones
1933
The Phantom Broadcast
as Sandy Higgins
1933
The Devil Is Driving
as Mac
1932
Boys Will Be Boys
as Butch
1932
You Said a Mouthful
as Swimming Champion Joe Holt (uncredited)
1932
Heritage of the Desert
as Lefty
1932
70,000 Witnesses
as Connors
1932
Drifting Souls
as Bing
1932
Polly of the Circus
as Eric
1932
Ladies of the Jury
as Steve Bromm (uncredited)
1932
Running Hollywood
as Scratchface Henchman
1932
War Mamas
as Doughboy
1931
The Phantom
as Dick Mallory
1931
Catch-As Catch-Can
as Strangler Sullivan
1931
The Great Meadow
as Rubin Hall
1931
The Bachelor Father
as Dick Berney
1931
College Lovers
as Tiny Courtley
1930
Liliom
as Hollinger
1930
The Bad Man
as Red Giddings
1930
The Big Fight
as Tiger
1930
City Girl
as Reaper
1930
The Forward Pass
as Honey Smith
1929
Lucky Star
as Sgt. Martin Wrenn
1929
From Headquarters
as Gunnery Sgt. Wilmer (as Guinn Williams)
1929
My Man
as Joe Halsey
1928
Noah's Ark
as Al Wilson / Ham
1928
Beggars of Life
as Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited)
1928
Vamping Venus
as Mars
1928
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
as Sweeney
1928
Burning Daylight
as English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)
1928
The College Widow
as Don White (as Big Boy Williams)
1927
The Down Grade
as Ed Holden
1927
Lightning
as Cuth Stewart
1927
The Woman Who Did Not Care
as Lars
1927
Babe Comes Home
as Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams)
1927
Snowbound
as Bull Morgan
1927
Arizona Bound
as Cowboy
1927
Backstage
as Mike Donovan
1927
Slide, Kelly, Slide
as McLean
1927
Quarantined Rivals
as Joe, the plumber
1927
The Desert's Toll
as Henchman
1926
Brown of Harvard
as Hal Walter
1926
1925
Black Cyclone
as Jim Lawson
1925
1925
Riders of the Sand Storm
as The Cowboy
1925
Rose of the Desert
as Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams)
1925
Whistling Jim
as Whistling Jim
1925
1925
1925
Wolfheart's Revenge
as Jack Stanley
1925
Red Blood and Blue
as Tom Butler
1925
1925
The Eagle's Claw
as Dan Carson
1924
The Avenger
as Nat Sherwood
1924
1923
1923
1923
1923
Cyclone Jones
as Cyclone Jones
1923
The Freshie
as Charles Taylor
1922
The Ropin' Fool
as The Foreman
1922
Blaze Away
as Big Boy
1922
1922
The Trail of Hate
as Silent Kerry
1922
The Cowboy King
as Dud Smiley
1922
Rounding Up the Law
as Larry Connell
1922
Across the Border
as Andy Fowler
1922
Western Firebrands
as Billy Fargo
1921
The Vengeance Trail
as Big Boy Bronson
1921
The Jack Rider
as Frank Stevens
1921
Godless Men
as Seaman
1920
Cupid the Cowpuncher
as Hairoil Johnson
1920
Jubilo
as Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited)
1919
1919
Movies
Danger Trails
Story
1935
Red Blood and Blue
Story
1925
The Vengeance Trail
Story
1921
The Jack Rider
Writer
1921
