Guinn "big Boy" Williams

Actor

About

Also Known As

Big Boy Williams, Guinn Williams, Gwynn Williams, 'Big Boy' Williams, Big Boy Williams

Birth Place

Decatur, Texas, USA

Born

April 26, 1899

Died

June 06, 1962

Cause of Death

Uremic Poisoning

Filmography

The Comancheros (1961)

Editor McBain

Home from the Hill (1960)

Hugh Macauley

Five Bold Women (1960)

Man from Del Rio (1956)

Fred Jasper

Photos & Videos

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Station West (1948) -- (Movie Clip) I Like The Way You Sing

Blackmail (1939) -- (Movie Clip) White Or Whole Wheat?

Family & Companions

Dorothy Williams

Wife

Biography

Filmography

Life Events

1919

Moved to Hollywood

Videos

Station West (1948) -- (Movie Clip) I Like The Way You Sing Casing the saloon in the Arizona town where he’s arrived after the death of two soldiers in a gold shipment robbery, Dick Powell, whose name we haven’t learned, observes the almost implausibly attractive singer (Jane Greer), then meets a testy Army man (Steve Brodie) and a barkeep (John Doucette), in Station West, 1948.

Blackmail (1939) -- (Movie Clip) White Or Whole Wheat? Oklahoma oil-rig fire fighter (Edward G. Robinson as John Ingram) returns home with his wife and son (Ruth Hussey, Bobs Watson) celebrating the opening of his own first well when he’s confronted by a drifter (Gene Lockhart as Ramey), who makes clear why he’s been sensitive about his past, in MGM’s Blackmail, 1939.

You Said A Mouthful (1932) -- (Movie Clip) You're Just As I Pictured You Joe E. Brown as Joe Holt, in L-A from Iowa, come for his $1-million inheritance and having found out all he got was a servant?s son (Farina), they?re about to take jobs on Catalina Island when Ginger Rogers, age 21, mistakes him for we-don?t-know-who, Guinn Williams the real guy, in You Said A Mouthful, 1932.

Virginia City (1940) -- (Movie Clip) In This Fever Hole Commander Irby (Randolph Scott) of the notorious Libby Confederate prison catches previously introduced tunneling Union prisoners Kerry (Errol Flynn) and pals (Guinn Williams, Alan Hale), the Civil War framing for the Warner Bros. Western, Virginia City, 1940, directed by Michael Curtiz.

Springfield Rifle (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Form Up At The Rear! First scene for Gary Cooper as union Major Lex Kearney, not gung-ho about chasing Confederate horse thieves in the Colorado Rockies, Tennick (Philip Carey) objecting, Snow (Guinn "Big Boy" Williams) obeying, early in Springfield Rifle, 1952.

Fighting 69th, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Rainbow Division Fictional recruit Plunkett (James Cagney) and "real" Father Duffy (Pat O'Brien) have just met when a brawl breaks out between troops from New York and Alabama, settled by another patriotic historical figure, then-major "Wild Bill" Donovan (George Brent), early in The Fighting 69th, 1940.

Swamp Water (1941) -- (Movie Clip) The Okefenokee Swamp Opening renowned French director Jean Renoir’s first film in the U.S., on location at the Okefenokee in Georgia, Dana Andrews in a search party, with Walter Huston, Ward Bond and others, in Swamp Water, 1941, from the only novel by Georgia-born Vereen Bell, who died in action in the Philippines in World War Two.

Swamp Water (1941) -- (Movie Clip) You Little Fightin' Cat Dana Andrews is backwoods Georgia teen Ben, planning to enter the Okefenokee to find his dog, at the general store with locals including Eugene Pallette, Russell Simpson, Ward Bond, Guinn Williams and Anne Baxter, as the rather wild young ward of the owner, Jean Renoir directing, in Swamp Water, 1941.

Lucky Star (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Good Deed For The Day Somewhere in the trenches, France 1918, selfish sergeant Wrenn (Guinn Williams, Jack Pennick his driver) takes off to party, then returns to order Tim (Charles Farrell) to handle his dangerous task, with a bad outcome, in Frank Borzage's Lucky Star, 1929, also starring Janet Gaynor.

Virginia City (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Battle Cry Of Freedom Union agent Bradford (Errol Flynn) with pals (Alan Hale, Guinn Williams) enters a local saloon, surprised to find Julia (Miriam Hopkins), the nice girl (and secret Confederate agent) he met on the stagecoach, leading a saucy version of a historically correct song, in Virginia City, 1940.

Virginia City (1940) -- (Movie Clip) I Didn't Like Your Face Via Robert Buckner's efficient screenplay, Union agents Bradford, Swenson and "Marblehead" (Errol Flynn, Alan Hale, Guinn Williams) meet Upjohn (Frank McHugh), mustachioed Humphrey Bogart introduces himself, Confederate spy Julia (Miriam Hopkins) remains under cover, in Virginia City, 1940.

Dodge City (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Coffee Pot On Wheels Events on the Kansas plains, 1870’s, proudly Irish ex-Confederate Texan mercenary Hatton (Errol Flynn) and his mates (Alan Hale, Guinn Williams) check in with railroad poobah Dodge (Henry O’Neill) then challenge buffalo poacher and crime-boss Surrett (Bruce Cabot), in Warner Bros.’ Dodge City, 1939.