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.
Acted in 207
1960s
- 1961
- 1960
Five Bold Women
'Big Foot' - the wagon driver
1950s
- 1958
- 1957
The Hired Gun
Elby Kirby
- 1956
Circus Boy
TV
Hidden Guns
Kingford
Fremont: The Trailblazer
Cassidy
- 1955
My Friend Flicka
Jeb Taylor · 1 episode
- 1954
The Outlaw's Daughter
Moose, Deputy
Massacre Canyon
Pvt. Archibald Allen
Southwest Passage
Tall Tale
- 1953
- 1952
- 1951
Man in the Saddle
Bourke Prine
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Lon Tuttle
- 1950
Hoedown
Small Potatoes
1940s
- 1949
Bad Men of Tombstone
Red Fisk
- 1948
Smoky Mountain Melody
Saddle Grease Williams
- 1947
Road to the Big House
Butch McQuinn
Smoky River Serenade
Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams)
King of the Wild Horses
Jed Acker
Over the Santa Fe Trail
Big Boy Jackson
- 1946
Singin' in the Corn
Hank
Singing on the Trail
Big Boy Webster
Cowboy Blues
Big Boy Stover
That Texas Jamboree
Big Boy Frazer
Throw a Saddle on a Star
Big Boy
- 1945
Song of the Prairie
Big Boy Jackson
Rhythm Round-Up
Zeke Winslow
Sing Me a Song of Texas
Big Boy
- 1944
Nevada
Dusty
Swing in the Saddle
'Tiny' Baldwin
Cowboy Canteen
Spud Harrigan
Hands Across the Border
Teddy Bear
- 1943
Minesweeper
CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith
Stars on Horseback
Movie
- 1942
Between Us Girls
Father of the Boys
Lure of the Islands
Jinx
Mr. Wise Guy
Luke Manning
The Bugle Sounds
Sgt. Krims
- 1941
Swamp Water
Bud Dorson
Riders of Death Valley
Borax Bill
Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
Alvin
- 1940
Dulcy
Henry
Pleased to Mitt You
Chuck Brenner
Money and the Woman
Mr. Adle
Wagons Westward
Jake Hardman
Alias the Deacon
Bull Gumbatz
Castle on the Hudson
Mike Cagle
1930s
- 1939
Fugitive at Large
Conway (as Guinn Williams)
Legion of Lost Flyers
Jake Halley
Blackmail
Moose McCarthy
Bad Lands
Billy Sweet
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Blake - the First Mate
6,000 Enemies
Maxie
Street of Missing Men
T-Bone
Pardon Our Nerve
Samson Smith
- 1938
I Demand Payment
Happy Crofton
Down in 'Arkansaw'
Juble Butler
Hold That Co-ed
Mike Wurgerski
Crashing Through Danger
Slim
Army Girl
Ross
Professor Beware
Motorcycle Cop
The Marines Are Here
Sgt. Gibbons
You and Me
Taxi
Everybody's Doing It
'Softy' Blane
- 1937
Wise Girl
Mike
The Bad Man of Brimstone
Vulch McCreedy
My Dear Miss Aldrich
An Attendant
Big City
Danny Devlin
She's No Lady
Jeff
The Singing Marine
Dopey
Flying Fists
Slug Cassidy
Girls Can Play
Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan
Dangerous Holiday
Duke Edwards
Don't Tell the Wife
Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal
- 1936
Career Woman
Bede Sanders
North of Nome
Haage
End of the Trail
Bob Hildreth
The Big Game
Pete Jenkins
Kelly the Second
Cecil Joseph Callahan
The Vigilantes Are Coming
Salvation
Grand Jury
Joseph Britt
The Champ's a Chump
Spike
Love on a Bet
Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
Muss 'em Up
'Red' Cable
- 1935
The Littlest Rebel
Sergeant Dudley
Miss Pacific Fleet
Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend
The Law of 45's
Tucson Two-Gun Smith
Powdersmoke Range
Lullaby Joslin
Danger Trails
Bob Wilson
Society Fever
Edgar Prouty
The Glass Key
Jeff
Village Tale
Ben Roberts
Private Worlds
Jerry Stone
One in a Million
Spike McGafferty
Big Boy Rides Again
Tom Duncan
- 1934
The Silver Streak
Higgins
Flirtation Walk
Sleepy
Romance in the Rain
Panya Mankiewicz
Here Comes the Navy
Dance-Floor Manager
Half a Sinner
'Bull' Moran
Cheaters
Detective Sweeney
The Undie-World
Bugsy McHugh
Palooka
Slats (uncredited)
- 1933
The Mystery Squadron
Bill 'Jellybean' Cook
College Coach
Matthews
Rafter Romance
Fritzie
Laughing at Life
Jones
The Phantom Broadcast
Sandy Higgins
- 1932
The Devil Is Driving
Mac
You Said a Mouthful
Swimmer Joe Holt (uncredited)
70,000 Witnesses
Connors
Drifting Souls
Bing
Polly of the Circus
Eric
Ladies of the Jury
Steve Bromm (uncredited)
- 1931
War Mamas
Doughboy
The Phantom
Dick Mallory
Catch-As Catch-Can
Strangler Sullivan
The Great Meadow
Rubin Hall
The Bachelor Father
Dick Berney
- 1930
College Lovers
Tiny Courtley
Liliom
Hollinger
The Bad Man
Red Giddings
The Big Fight
Tiger
1920s
- 1929
The Forward Pass
Honey Smith
Lucky Star
Martin Wrenn
From Headquarters
Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer
- 1928
My Man
Joe Halsey
Vamping Venus
Mars
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
Sweeney
Burning Daylight
English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)
- 1927
The College Widow
Don White (as Big Boy Williams)
The Down Grade
Ed Holden
Lightning
Cuth Stewart
The Woman Who Did Not Care
Lars
Babe Comes Home
Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams)
Snowbound
Bull Morgan
Arizona Bound
Cowboy
Backstage
Mike Donovan
Slide, Kelly, Slide
McLean
- 1926
The Desert's Toll
Henchman
Brown of Harvard
Hal Walter
- 1925
The Big Stunt
Movie
The Black Cyclone
Jim Lawson
Courage of Wolfheart
Movie
Rose of the Desert
Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams)
Whistling Jim
Whistling Jim
Bad Man from Bodie
Movie
Wolfheart's Revenge
Jack Stanley
Fangs of Wolfheart
Movie
- 1924
The Eagle's Claw
Dan Carson
The Avenger
Nat Sherwood
- 1923
Uncensored Movies
Movie
$1,000 Reward
Movie
- 1922
The Freshie
Charles Taylor
The Ropin' Fool
The Foreman
Remembrance
Movie
Blaze Away
Big Boy
The Trail of Hate
Silent Kerry
The Cowboy King
Dud Smiley
Rounding Up the Law
Larry Connell
- 1921
The Vengeance Trail
Big Boy Bronson
The Jack Rider
Frank Stevens
- 1920
Godless Men
Seaman
Cupid the Cowpuncher
Hairoil Johnson
1910s
- 1919
Jubilo
Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited)
Almost a Husband
Movie
Wrote 3
1930s
- 1935
Danger Trails
Story
1920s
- 1921
The Vengeance Trail
Story
The Jack Rider
Writer
