Joe Sawyer
Joe Sawyer ( born August 29, 1906 in Guelph, Ontario, † April 21, 1982 in Ashland, Oregon; actually Joseph Sauers ) was a Canadian actor of German origin.
Life
Joe Sawyer was born in 1906 as the son of German immigrants in Guelph, Ontario, under the name of Joseph Sauers. First experience as an actor, he gained at the Pasadena Playhouse. Because he wanted to become a film actor, he moved to Hollywood, where he stood in small roles before the camera in 1930. In his early films, he appeared under his real name, and later Anglicized him to Joe Sawyer. During the 1930s he played at Warner Brothers in a number of films alongside stars such as James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, as in The Roaring Twenties ( The Roaring Twenties, 1939), or even on the side of Errol Flynn, as in the land of the wicked (Santa Fe Trail, 1940) and his last command ( They Died with Their Boots On, 1941).
As a busy supporting actor, he appeared over the years in almost 200 films. In the 1950s, Sawyer also appeared in numerous television series, such as as Sergeant Biff O'Hara in 14 episodes of the series Rin -Tin -Tin ( The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, 1954-1959 ). In 1962 he retired from the film business to Indio in California back.
In his first marriage he had with actress Jeane Wood, the daughter of director Sam Wood, married. The marriage to his second wife, June, held until her death in 1960. Due to illness Sawyer pulled a few years before his death to his son to Ashland in Oregon, where in 1982 he died of liver cancer at the age of 75 years.