Cast & creator
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Best known for Wagon Train, Cheyenne, Gunsmoke
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.
Also known as: Guinn Terrell Williams Jr., Big Boy Williams, Gwinn Williams, Gwynn Williams, Tex Williams
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1919–1962 · acting roles
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Filmography (224)
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Wagon Train
Calvin Bryngelson
1957
Cheyenne
Prairie Dog
1955
Gunsmoke
Groat
1955
Sugarfoot
Moose McKlintock
1957
Tales of Wells Fargo
Mike Forbes
1957
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Tulsa Jack
1951
The Life Of Riley
Finnegan
1953
The Restless Gun
Jeff Bonsell
1957
The Wonderful World of Disney
Buffalo
1954
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Sgt. Muldoon
1954
U.S. Marshall
Jones
1958
Circus Boy
1956
My Friend Flicka
Jeb Taylor
1955
The Alamo
Lt. 'Irish' Finn
1960
The Comancheros
Ed McBain - Gunrunner (uncredited)
1961
A Star Is Born
Posture Coach
1937
You Only Live Once
Rogers
1937
Home from the Hill
Hugh Macauley (uncredited)
1960
Man from Del Rio
Fred Jasper
1956
Hangman's Knot
Smitty
1952
Dodge City
Tex Baird
1939
Virginia City
Marblehead
1940
You'll Never Get Rich
Kewpie Blain
1941
City Girl
Reaper
1930
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1941
Man in the Saddle
Bourke Prine
1951
Santa Fe Trail
Windy Brody
1940
Man of the Forest
Big Boy
1933
Belle of the Yukon
Sheriff Mervin Maitland
1944
Noah's Ark
Al Wilson / Ham
1928
Springfield Rifle
Sgt. Snow
1952
The Desperadoes
Nitro Rankin
1943
The Littlest Rebel
Sergeant Dudley
1935
Blaze Away
Big Boy
1922
The Vigilantes Are Coming
Salvation
1936
You and Me
Taxi
1938
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Lon Tuttle
1951
Flying Fists
Slug Cassidy
1937
Massacre Canyon
Pvt. Archibald Allen
1954
Heritage of the Desert
Lefty
1932
Army Girl
Ross
1938
Whistling Jim
Whistling Jim
1925
Castle on the Hudson
Mike Cagle
1940
Riders of Death Valley
Borax Bill
1941
Billy the Kid
Ed Bronson (blacksmith)
1941
Money and the Woman
Mr. Adle
1940
Hands Across the Border
Teddy Bear
1944
Wise Girl
Mike
1937
The Devil Is Driving
Mac
1932
Bad Men of Tombstone
Red Fisk
1949
The Fighting 69th
Paddy Dolan
1940
You Said a Mouthful
Swimmer Joe Holt (uncredited)
1932
Here Comes the Navy
Dance-Floor Manager
1934Sporting West
1925
Half a Sinner
'Bull' Moran
1934
Cowboy Holiday
Buck Sawyer
1934
End of the Trail
Bob Hildreth
1936
Lightning
Cuth Stewart
1927
Romance in the Rain
Panya Mankiewicz
1934
Station West
Mick Marion
1948
The Outlaw's Daughter
Moose, Deputy
1954
Singin' in the Corn
Hank
1946
Everybody's Doing It
'Softy' Blane
1938
Song of the Prairie
Big Boy Jackson
1945
Rocky Mountain
Pap Dennison (CSA)
1950
King of the Wild Horses
Jed Acker
1947
The Singing Marine
Dopey
1937
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
Sweeney
1928
Mr. Wise Guy
Luke Manning
1942
Hold That Co-ed
Mike Wurgerski
1938
Swing in the Saddle
'Tiny' Baldwin
1944
Big City
Danny Devlin
1937
She's No Lady
Jeff
1937
Ladies of the Jury
Steve Bromm (uncredited)
1932
Snowbound
Bull Morgan
1927
My Dear Miss Aldrich
An Attendant
1937
The Bad Man of Brimstone
Vulch McCreedy
1937
Flirtation Walk
Sleepy
1934
Don't Tell the Wife
Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal
1937
Polly of the Circus
Eric
1932
Legion of Lost Flyers
Jake Halley
1939
Cowboy and the Senorita
'Teddy' Bear
1944
Brimstone
Art Benson
1949
Rhythm Round-Up
Zeke Winslow
1945
The Hired Gun
Elby Kirby
1957
Village Tale
Ben Roberts
1935Riders of the Sand Storm
The Cowboy
1925
Swamp Water
Bud Dorson
1941
The Marines Are Here
Sgt. Gibbons
1938
Love on a Bet
Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
1936
Backstage
Mike Donovan
1927
Southwest Passage
Tall Tale
1954
College Lovers
Tiny Courtley
1930
Singing on the Trail
Big Boy Webster
1946
70,000 Witnesses
Connors
1932
The Avenger
Nat Sherwood
1924
Five Bold Women
'Big Foot' - the wagon driver
1960
Laughing at Life
Jones
1933
Rounding Up the Law
Larry Connell
1922
The Law of 45's
Tucson Two-Gun Smith
1935
Big Boy Rides Again
Tom Duncan
1935
Lure of the Islands
Jinx
1942
Nevada
Dusty
1944
One in a Million
Spike McGafferty
1935
Muss 'em Up
'Red' Cable
1936
Rose of the Desert
Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams)
1925
The Champ's a Chump
Spike
1936
Over the Santa Fe Trail
Big Boy Jackson
1947
Silver Queen
Blackie
1942
The Freshie
Charles Taylor
1922
Street of Missing Men
T-Bone
1939
Danger Trails
Bob Wilson
1935Danger Trails
Story
1935
Sing Me a Song of Texas
Big Boy
1945Red Blood and Blue
Tom Butler
1925Red Blood and Blue
Story
1925
American Empire
Sailaway
1942
Gun Play
Bill Williams
1935
Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
Alvin
1941End of the Rope
1923
Uncensored Movies
1923
Rafter Romance
Fritzie
1933
Hidden Guns
Kingford
1956
Blackmail
Moose McCarthy
1939
The Man Who Walked Alone
Champ
1945
Bad Man from Bodie
1925
Drifting Souls
Bing
1932
Catch-As Catch-Can
Strangler Sullivan
1931
Lucky Star
Martin Wrenn
1929
Alias the Deacon
Bull Gumbatz
1940
Throw a Saddle on a Star
Big Boy
1946
The Eagle's Claw
Dan Carson
1924
Beggars of Life
Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited)
1928
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Blake - the First Mate
1939
Road to the Big House
Butch McQuinn
1947
Wagons Westward
Jake Hardman
1940
The Big Fight
Tiger
1930
The Desert's Toll
Henchman
1926
College Coach
Matthews
1933Boys Will Be Boys
Butch
1932Buttons and Her Beaus
1962
Private Worlds
Jerry Stone
1935Running Hollywood
Scratchface Henchman
1932
The Bad Man
Red Giddings
1930
Pleased to Mitt You
Chuck Brenner
1940
Cheaters
Detective Sweeney
1934
The Trail of Hate
Silent Kerry
1922
Country Fair
Gunther Potts
1941
The Glass Key
Jeff
1935
The Big Game
Pete Jenkins
1936
Between Us Girls
Father of the Boys
1942
Professor Beware
Motorcycle Cop
1938
Bad Lands
Billy Sweet
1939
Liliom
Hollinger
1930
The Bugle Sounds
Sgt. Krims
1942
The Ropin' Fool
The Foreman
1922
Miss Pacific Fleet
Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend
1935
The College Widow
Don White (as Big Boy Williams)
1927
Smoky Mountain Melody
Saddle Grease Williams
1948
Career Woman
Bede Sanders
1936
Girls Can Play
Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan
1937
Dangerous Holiday
Duke Edwards
1937
Burning Daylight
English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)
1928
Fugitive at Large
Conway (as Guinn Williams)
1939
The Forward Pass
Honey Smith
1929
Babe Comes Home
Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams)
1927
Godless Men
Seaman
1920
The Undie-World
Bugsy McHugh
1934
The Bachelor Father
Dick Berney
1931
Minesweeper
CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith
1943
6,000 Enemies
Maxie
1939
Stars on Horseback
1943
Powdersmoke Range
Lullaby Joslin
1935
Dulcy
Henry
1940
Cowboy Canteen
Spud Harrigan
1944
That Texas Jamboree
Big Boy Frazer
1946
The Silver Streak
Higgins
1934
Palooka
Slats (uncredited)
1934
The Woman Who Did Not Care
Lars
1927
Hoedown
Small Potatoes
1950
The Big Stunt
1925
Grand Jury
Joseph Britt
1936
From Headquarters
Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer
1929
North of Nome
Haage
1936
The Mystery Squadron
Bill 'Jellybean' Cook
1933
Thunder Over Texas
Ted Wright
1934
War Mamas
Doughboy
1931Across the Border
Andy Fowler
1922
The Jack Rider
Frank Stevens
1921The Jack Rider
Writer
1921
The Black Cyclone
Jim Lawson
1925
Wolfheart's Revenge
Jack Stanley
1925
The Phantom Broadcast
Sandy Higgins
1933
Down in 'Arkansaw'
Juble Butler
1938
The Great Meadow
Rubin Hall
1931
Pardon Our Nerve
Samson Smith
1939
Society Fever
Edgar Prouty
1935
Vamping Venus
Mars
1928
Courage of Wolfheart
1925
Kelly the Second
Cecil Joseph Callahan
1936
Cowboy Blues
Big Boy Stover
1946
Smoky River Serenade
Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams)
1947
The Down Grade
Ed Holden
1927
Crashing Through Danger
Slim
1938
Jubilo
Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited)
1919
Cupid the Cowpuncher
Hairoil Johnson
1920
My Man
Joe Halsey
1928
Fangs of Wolfheart
1925
$1,000 Reward
1923
Fremont: The Trailblazer
Cassidy
1956
Brown of Harvard
Hal Walter
1926
I Demand Payment
Happy Crofton
1938
Arizona Bound
Cowboy
1927
Remembrance
1922
The Phantom
Dick Mallory
1931Quarantined Rivals
Joe, the plumber
1927Cyclone Jones
Cyclone Jones
1923
Almost a Husband
1919
The Cowboy King
Dud Smiley
1922
Slide, Kelly, Slide
McLean
1927Western Firebrands
Billy Fargo
1921
The Vengeance Trail
Big Boy Bronson
1921The Vengeance Trail
Story
1921