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Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Decatur, Texas, USA
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…
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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.
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1962
Buttons and Her Beaus
Movie
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1961
The Comancheros
Movie Ed McBain - Gunrunner (uncredited)
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1960
The Alamo
Movie Lt. 'Irish' Finn
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1960
Five Bold Women
Movie 'Big Foot' - the wagon driver
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1960
Home from the Hill
Movie Hugh Macauley (uncredited)
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1958
U.S. Marshall
TV show Jones
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1957
The Restless Gun
TV show Jeff Bonsell
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1957
The Hired Gun
Movie Elby Kirby
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1957
Wagon Train
TV show Calvin Bryngelson
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1957
Sugarfoot
TV show Moose McKlintock
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1957
Tales of Wells Fargo
TV show Mike Forbes
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1956
Man from Del Rio
Movie Fred Jasper
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1956
Circus Boy
TV show
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1956
Hidden Guns
Movie Kingford
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1956
Fremont: The Trailblazer
Movie Cassidy
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1955
My Friend Flicka
TV show Jeb Taylor
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1955
Cheyenne
TV show Prairie Dog
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1955
Gunsmoke
TV show Groat
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1954
The Outlaw's Daughter
Movie Moose, Deputy
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1954
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV show Buffalo
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1954
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
TV show Sgt. Muldoon
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1954
Massacre Canyon
Movie Pvt. Archibald Allen
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1954
Southwest Passage
Movie Tall Tale
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1953
The Life Of Riley
TV show Finnegan
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1952
Hangman's Knot
Movie Smitty
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1952
Springfield Rifle
Movie Sgt. Snow
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1951
Man in the Saddle
Movie Bourke Prine
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1951
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
TV show Tulsa Jack
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1951
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Movie Lon Tuttle
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1950
Rocky Mountain
Movie Pap Dennison (CSA)
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1950
Hoedown
Movie Small Potatoes
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1949
Brimstone
Movie Art Benson
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1949
Bad Men of Tombstone
Movie Red Fisk
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1948
Smoky Mountain Melody
Movie Saddle Grease Williams
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1948
Station West
Movie Mick Marion
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1947
Road to the Big House
Movie Butch McQuinn
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1947
Smoky River Serenade
Movie Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams)
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1947
King of the Wild Horses
Movie Jed Acker (as Big Boy Williams)
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1947
Over the Santa Fe Trail
Movie Big Boy Jackson
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1946
Singin' in the Corn
Movie Hank
