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