Guinn "Big Boy" Williams

from Decatur, Texas, USA

Artwork for The AlamoImage of Guinn

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.

Timeline

1962Aged 63

1961Aged 62

  • Poster for The Comancheros

    Ed McBain - Gunrunner (uncredited)

1960Aged 61

  • Poster for Home from the Hill

    Hugh Macauley (uncredited)

  • Poster for Five Bold Women

    'Big Foot' - the wagon driver

  • Poster for The Alamo

    Lt. 'Irish' Finn

1957Aged 58

  • Poster for The Hired Gun

    Elby Kirby

1956Aged 57

  • Poster for Fremont: The Trailblazer

    Cassidy

  • Poster for Hidden Guns

    Kingford

  • Poster for Man from Del Rio

    Fred Jasper

1954Aged 55

  • Poster for Southwest Passage

    Tall Tale

  • Poster for Massacre Canyon

    Pvt. Archibald Allen

  • Poster for The Outlaw's Daughter

    Moose, Deputy

1952Aged 53

  • Poster for Springfield Rifle

    Sgt. Snow

  • Poster for Hangman's Knot

    Smitty

1951Aged 52

  • Poster for Al Jennings of Oklahoma

    Lon Tuttle

  • Poster for Man in the Saddle

    Bourke Prine

1950Aged 51

  • Poster for Hoedown

    Small Potatoes

  • Poster for Rocky Mountain

    Pap Dennison (CSA)

1949Aged 50

  • Poster for Bad Men of Tombstone

    Red Fisk

  • Poster for Brimstone

    Art Benson

1948Aged 49

  • Poster for Station West

    Mick Marion

  • Poster for Smoky Mountain Melody

    Saddle Grease Williams

1947Aged 48

  • Poster for Over the Santa Fe Trail

    Big Boy Jackson

  • Poster for King of the Wild Horses

    Jed Acker

  • Poster for Smoky River Serenade

    Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams)

  • Poster for Road to the Big House

    Butch McQuinn

1946Aged 47

  • Poster for Throw a Saddle on a Star

    Big Boy

  • Poster for That Texas Jamboree

    Big Boy Frazer

  • Poster for Cowboy Blues

    Big Boy Stover

  • Poster for Singing on the Trail

    Big Boy Webster

  • Poster for Singin' in the Corn

    Hank

1945Aged 46

  • Poster for Sing Me a Song of Texas

    Big Boy

  • Poster for The Man Who Walked Alone

    Champ

  • Poster for Rhythm Round-Up

    Zeke Winslow

  • Poster for Song of the Prairie

    Big Boy Jackson

1944Aged 45

  • Poster for Hands Across the Border

    Teddy Bear

  • Poster for Cowboy Canteen

    Spud Harrigan

  • Poster for Cowboy and the Senorita

    'Teddy' Bear

  • Poster for Swing in the Saddle

    'Tiny' Baldwin

  • Poster for Nevada

    Dusty

  • Poster for Belle of the Yukon

    Sheriff Mervin Maitland

1943Aged 44

  • Poster for Stars on Horseback

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Desperadoes

    Nitro Rankin

  • Poster for Minesweeper

    CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith

1942Aged 43

  • Poster for The Bugle Sounds

    Sgt. Krims

  • Poster for Mr. Wise Guy

    Luke Manning

  • Poster for Lure of the Islands

    Jinx

  • Poster for Between Us Girls

    Father of the Boys

  • Poster for Silver Queen

    Blackie

  • Poster for American Empire

    Sailaway

1941Aged 42

  • Poster for Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga

    Alvin

  • Poster for Country Fair

    Gunther Potts

  • Poster for Billy the Kid

    Ed Bronson (blacksmith)

  • Poster for Riders of Death Valley

    Borax Bill

  • Poster for You'll Never Get Rich

    Kewpie Blain

  • Poster for Swamp Water

    Bud Dorson

  • Poster for Mr. Bug Goes to Town

    Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1940Aged 41

  • Poster for The Fighting 69th

    Paddy Dolan

  • Poster for Castle on the Hudson

    Mike Cagle

  • Poster for Virginia City

    Marblehead

  • Poster for Alias the Deacon

    Bull Gumbatz

  • Poster for Wagons Westward

    Jake Hardman

  • Poster for Money and the Woman

    Mr. Adle

  • Poster for Pleased to Mitt You

    Chuck Brenner

  • Poster for Dulcy

    Henry

  • Poster for Santa Fe Trail

    Windy Brody

1939Aged 40

  • Poster for Pardon Our Nerve

    Samson Smith

  • Poster for Dodge City

    Tex Baird

  • Poster for Street of Missing Men

    T-Bone

  • Poster for 6,000 Enemies

    Maxie

  • Poster for Mutiny on the Blackhawk

    Blake - the First Mate

  • Poster for Bad Lands

    Billy Sweet

  • Poster for Blackmail

    Moose McCarthy

  • Poster for Legion of Lost Flyers

    Jake Halley

  • Poster for Fugitive at Large

    Conway (as Guinn Williams)

1938Aged 39

  • Poster for Everybody's Doing It

    'Softy' Blane

  • Poster for You and Me

    Taxi

  • Poster for The Marines Are Here

    Sgt. Gibbons

  • Poster for Professor Beware

    Motorcycle Cop

  • Poster for Army Girl

    Ross

  • Poster for Crashing Through Danger

    Slim

  • Poster for Hold That Co-ed

    Mike Wurgerski

  • Poster for Down in 'Arkansaw'

    Juble Butler

  • Poster for I Demand Payment

    Happy Crofton

1937Aged 38

  • Poster for You Only Live Once

    Rogers

  • Poster for Don't Tell the Wife

    Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal

  • Poster for A Star Is Born

    Posture Coach

  • Poster for Dangerous Holiday

    Duke Edwards

  • Poster for Girls Can Play

    Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan

  • Poster for Flying Fists

    Slug Cassidy

  • Poster for The Singing Marine

    Dopey

  • Poster for She's No Lady

    Jeff

  • Poster for Big City

    Danny Devlin

  • Poster for My Dear Miss Aldrich

    An Attendant

  • Poster for Wise Girl

    Mike

  • Poster for The Bad Man of Brimstone

    Vulch McCreedy

1936Aged 37

  • Poster for Muss 'em Up

    'Red' Cable

  • Poster for Love on a Bet

    Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)

  • Poster for The Champ's a Chump

    Spike

  • Poster for Grand Jury

    Joseph Britt

  • Poster for The Vigilantes Are Coming

    Salvation

  • Poster for Kelly the Second

    Cecil Joseph Callahan

  • Poster for The Big Game

    Pete Jenkins

  • Poster for End of the Trail

    Bob Hildreth

  • Poster for North of Nome

    Haage

  • Poster for Career Woman

    Bede Sanders

1935Aged 36

  • Poster for Big Boy Rides Again

    Tom Duncan

  • Poster for One in a Million

    Spike McGafferty

  • Poster for Private Worlds

    Jerry Stone

  • Poster for Village Tale

    Ben Roberts

  • Poster for The Glass Key

    Jeff

  • Poster for Society Fever

    Edgar Prouty

  • Poster for Danger Trails

    Bob Wilson

  • Poster for Powdersmoke Range

    Lullaby Joslin

  • Poster for The Law of 45's

    Tucson Two-Gun Smith

  • Poster for Gun Play

    Bill Williams

  • Poster for Miss Pacific Fleet

    Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend

  • Poster for The Littlest Rebel

    Sergeant Dudley

1934Aged 35

  • Poster for Palooka

    Slats (uncredited)

  • Poster for The Undie-World

    Bugsy McHugh

  • Poster for Cheaters

    Detective Sweeney

  • Poster for Half a Sinner

    'Bull' Moran

  • Poster for Here Comes the Navy

    Dance-Floor Manager

  • Poster for Romance in the Rain

    Panya Mankiewicz

  • Poster for Thunder Over Texas

    Ted Wright

  • Poster for Flirtation Walk

    Sleepy

  • Poster for Cowboy Holiday

    Buck Sawyer

  • Poster for The Silver Streak

    Higgins

1933Aged 34

  • Poster for The Phantom Broadcast

    Sandy Higgins

  • Poster for Laughing at Life

    Jones

  • Poster for Man of the Forest

    Big Boy

  • Poster for Rafter Romance

    Fritzie

  • Poster for College Coach

    Matthews

  • Poster for The Mystery Squadron

    Bill 'Jellybean' Cook

1932Aged 33

1931Aged 32

  • Poster for The Bachelor Father

    Dick Berney

  • Poster for The Great Meadow

    Rubin Hall

  • Poster for Catch-As Catch-Can

    Strangler Sullivan

  • Poster for The Phantom

    Dick Mallory

  • Poster for War Mamas

    Doughboy

1930Aged 31

  • Poster for City Girl

    Reaper

  • Poster for The Big Fight

    Tiger

  • Poster for The Bad Man

    Red Giddings

  • Poster for Liliom

    Hollinger

  • Poster for College Lovers

    Tiny Courtley

1929Aged 30

  • Poster for From Headquarters

    Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer

  • Poster for Lucky Star

    Martin Wrenn

  • Poster for The Forward Pass

    Honey Smith

1928Aged 29

  • Poster for Burning Daylight

    English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)

  • Poster for Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath

    Sweeney

  • Poster for Vamping Venus

    Mars

  • Poster for Beggars of Life

    Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited)

  • Poster for Noah's Ark

    Al Wilson / Ham

  • Poster for My Man

    Joe Halsey

1927Aged 28

  • Quarantined Rivals

    Joe, the plumber

  • Poster for Slide, Kelly, Slide

    McLean

  • Poster for Backstage

    Mike Donovan

  • Poster for Arizona Bound

    Cowboy

  • Poster for Snowbound

    Bull Morgan

  • Poster for Babe Comes Home

    Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams)

  • Poster for The Woman Who Did Not Care

    Lars

  • Poster for Lightning

    Cuth Stewart

  • Poster for The Down Grade

    Ed Holden

  • Poster for The College Widow

    Don White (as Big Boy Williams)

1926Aged 27

  • Poster for Brown of Harvard

    Hal Walter

  • Poster for The Desert's Toll

    Henchman

1925Aged 26

1924Aged 25

  • Poster for The Avenger

    Nat Sherwood

  • Poster for The Eagle's Claw

    Dan Carson

1923Aged 24

1922Aged 23

  • Across the Border

    Andy Fowler

  • Poster for Rounding Up the Law

    Larry Connell

  • Poster for The Cowboy King

    Dud Smiley

  • Poster for The Trail of Hate

    Silent Kerry

  • Poster for Blaze Away

    Big Boy

  • Poster for Remembrance

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Ropin' Fool

    The Foreman

  • Poster for The Freshie

    Charles Taylor

1921Aged 22

1920Aged 21

  • Poster for Cupid the Cowpuncher

    Hairoil Johnson

  • Poster for Godless Men

    Seaman

1919Aged 20

  • Poster for Almost a Husband

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Jubilo

    Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited)