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
Windy Brody
Santa Fe Trail
Sailaway
American Empire
Luke Manning
Mr. Wise Guy
Posture Coach
A Star Is Born
Mike Cagle
Castle on the Hudson
Conway (as Guinn Williams)
Fugitive at Large
Kewpie Blain
You'll Never Get Rich
Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited)
Jubilo
Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams)
Rose of the Desert
Courage of Wolfheart
Bad Man from Bodie
Fangs of Wolfheart
The Big Stunt
Jeff
The Glass Key
Mick Marion
Station West
Bourke Prine
Man in the Saddle
Sgt. Dudley
The Littlest Rebel
Bud Dorson
Swamp Water
Sheriff Mervin Maitland
Belle of the Yukon
Pap Dennison (CSA)
Rocky Mountain
Tex Baird
Dodge City
'Teddy' Bear
Cowboy and the Senorita
Butch McQuinn
Road to the Big House
Rogers
You Only Live Once
Danny Devlin
Big City
Teddy Bear
Hands Across the Border
Smitty
Hangman's Knot
CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith
Minesweeper
Lars
The Woman Who Did Not Care
Fred Jasper
Man from Del Rio
Sleepy
Flirtation Walk
Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited)
Beggars of Life
Hal Walter
Brown of Harvard
Sgt. Martin Wrenn
Lucky Star
Al Wilson / Ham
Noah's Ark
Jerry Stone
Private Worlds
Moose McCarthy
Blackmail
Fritzie
Rafter Romance
Sgt. Snow
Springfield Rifle
Ed Bronson (blacksmith)
Billy the Kid
Cecil Joseph Callahan
Kelly the Second
McLean
Slide, Kelly, Slide
Lon Tuttle
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Dick Mallory
The Phantom
Tom Duncan
Big Boy Rides Again
Lefty
Heritage of the Desert
The Foreman
The Ropin' Fool
Taxi
You and Me
Bill 'Jellybean' Cook
The Mystery Squadron
Elby Kirby
The Hired Gun
Mike
Wise Girl
Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend
Miss Pacific Fleet
Matthews
College Coach
Jim Lawson
Black Cyclone
Big Boy
Man of the Forest
Big Boy Jackson
Song of the Prairie
Tucson Two-Gun Smith
The Law of 45's
Ross
Army Girl
Eric
Polly of the Circus
Buck Sawyer
Cowboy Holiday
Joseph Britt
Grand Jury
Salvation
The Vigilantes Are Coming
Ted Wright
Thunder Over Texas
Champ
The Man Who Walked Alone
Pete Jenkins
The Big Game
Dick Berney
The Bachelor Father
Duke Edwards
Dangerous Holiday
Billy Sweet
Bad Lands
Slug Cassidy
Flying Fists
Mr. Adle
Money and the Woman
Spike McGafferty
One in a Million
Higgins
The Silver Streak
Bill Williams
Gun Play
Mike Wurgerski
Hold That Co-ed
Rubin Hall
The Great Meadow
Scratchface Henchman
Running Hollywood
Bing
Drifting Souls
Detective Sweeney
Cheaters
Jones
Laughing at Life
'Red' Cable
Muss 'em Up
Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
Love on a Bet
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
Buttons and Her Beaus
Cassidy
Fremont: The Trailblazer
Ben Roberts
Village Tale
End of the Rope
Nat Sherwood
The Avenger
Cyclone Jones
Cyclone Jones
Riders at Night
$1,000 Reward
Uncensored Movies
Tom Butler
Red Blood and Blue
Whistling Jim
Whistling Jim
Sporting West
The Cowboy
Riders of the Sand Storm
Mac
The Devil Is Driving
Joe, the plumber
Quarantined Rivals
Mike Donovan
Backstage
Ed Holden
The Down Grade
Almost a Husband
Sweeney
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
Reaper
City Girl
Tiny Courtley
College Lovers
Tiger
The Big Fight
Art Benson
Brimstone
'Big Foot' - the wagon driver
Five Bold Women
Tall Tale
Southwest Passage
Slim
Crashing Through Danger
Pvt. Archibald Allen
Massacre Canyon
Dusty
Nevada
Honey Smith
The Forward Pass
Maxie
6,000 Enemies
'Softy' Blane
Everybody's Doing It
Vulch McCreedy
The Bad Man of Brimstone
Jeff
She's No Lady
An Attendant
My Dear Miss Aldrich
Bob Wilson
Danger Trails
Hairoil Johnson
Cupid the Cowpuncher
Dopey
The Singing Marine
Dance-Floor Manager
Here Comes the Navy
Slats (uncredited)
Palooka
Silent Kerry
The Trail of Hate
Paddy Dolan
The Fighting 69th
Lt. 'Irish' Finn
The Alamo
Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal
Don't Tell the Wife
Doughboy
War Mamas
Strangler Sullivan
Catch-As Catch-Can
'Tiny' Baldwin
Swing in the Saddle
Bull Gumbatz
Alias the Deacon
Marblehead
Virginia City
Swimming Champion Joe Holt (uncredited)
You Said a Mouthful
Big Boy Frazer
That Texas Jamboree
Blake - the First Mate
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Motorcycle Cop
Professor Beware
Bugsy McHugh
The Undie-World
Chuck Brenner
Pleased to Mitt You
Small Potatoes
Hoedown
Big Boy
Sing Me a Song of Texas
Ed McBain - Gunrunner (uncredited)
The Comancheros
Frank Stevens
The Jack Rider
Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams)
Smoky River Serenade
Jake Hardman
Wagons Westward
Big Boy Bronson
The Vengeance Trail
Billy Fargo
Western Firebrands
Andy Fowler
Across the Border
Dud Smiley
The Cowboy King
Larry Connell
Rounding Up the Law
Charles Taylor
The Freshie
Big Boy
Blaze Away
Remembrance
Gunther Potts
Country Fair
Nitro Rankin
The Desperadoes
Edgar Prouty
Society Fever
Hugh Macauley (uncredited)
Home from the Hill
Big Boy Webster
Singing on the Trail
Moose, Deputy
The Outlaw's Daughter
Big Boy
Throw a Saddle on a Star
Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan
Girls Can Play
Lullaby Joslin
Powdersmoke Range
Haage
North of Nome
Bob Hildreth
End of the Trail
Juble Butler
Down in 'Arkansaw'
Red Giddings
The Bad Man
T-Bone
Street of Missing Men
Borax Bill
Riders of Death Valley
Samson Smith
Pardon Our Nerve
Jake Halley
Legion of Lost Flyers
Alvin
Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
Jinx
Lure of the Islands
Spud Harrigan
Cowboy Canteen
Father of the Boys
Between Us Girls
Jack Stanley
Wolfheart's Revenge
Sgt. Gibbons
The Marines Are Here
Joe Halsey
My Man
Saddle Grease Williams
Smoky Mountain Melody
Blackie
Silver Queen
Zeke Winslow
Rhythm Round-Up
Big Boy Stover
Cowboy Blues
Jed Acker (as Big Boy Williams)
King of the Wild Horses
Big Boy Jackson
Over the Santa Fe Trail
Red Fisk
Bad Men of Tombstone
Henry
Dulcy
Kingford
Hidden Guns
Bede Sanders
Career Woman
Steve Bromm (uncredited)
Ladies of the Jury
Spike
The Champ's a Chump
Seaman
Godless Men
Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer
From Headquarters
Hollinger
Liliom
Don White (as Big Boy Williams)
The College Widow
Mars
Vamping Venus
Bull Morgan
Snowbound
Sgt. Krims
The Bugle Sounds
Connors
70,000 Witnesses
Butch
Boys Will Be Boys
'Bull' Moran
Half a Sinner
Panya Mankiewicz
Romance in the Rain
Hank
Singin' in the Corn
English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)
Burning Daylight
Dan Carson
The Eagle's Claw
Stars on Horseback
Happy Crofton
I Demand Payment
Henchman
The Desert's Toll
Sandy Higgins
The Phantom Broadcast
Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams)
Babe Comes Home
Cuth Stewart
Lightning
Cowboy
Arizona Bound
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
207
Gender
Male
Birthday
1899-04-25
Place of Birth
Decatur, Texas, USA
Also Known As
Guinn Terrell Williams Jr.