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Russell Hopton, Marian Nixon, Jack Whiting, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in College Lovers (1930)

Charles Farrell, Janet Gaynor, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Lucky Star (1929)

Hedwiga Reicher and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Lucky Star (1929)

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Lucky Star (1929)

Janet Gaynor, Hedwiga Reicher, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Lucky Star (1929)

Charles Farrell and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Lucky Star (1929)

Gloria Grey and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Lucky Star (1929)

Janet Gaynor and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Lucky Star (1929)

Marion Davies and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in The Bachelor Father (1931)

Doris Kenyon, Milton Sills, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Burning Daylight (1928)

Dorothy Mackaill, Jack Mulhall, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath (1928)

Emma Dunn, Jean Parker, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Minesweeper (1943)

Charles Farrell, Estelle Taylor, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Liliom (1930)

Dolores Costello, Paul McAllister, William V. Mong, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Noah's Ark (1928)

Charley Chase, Patsy Kelly, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Kelly the Second (1936)

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Kelly the Second (1936)

Andy Clyde, Robert Coote, Francis Ford, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Bad Lands (1939)

Allene Ray, Niles Welch, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in The Phantom (1931)

George Beranger, Lita Chevret, Charles Dow Clark, George Humbert, Kitty Kelly, Ken Murray, Edna May Oliver, Kate Price, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Ladies of the Jury (1932)

Roscoe Ates, George Humbert, Ken Murray, Edna May Oliver, Kate Price, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Ladies of the Jury (1932)

Henry Fonda and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in You Only Live Once (1937)

Dale Robertson and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Tales of Wells Fargo (1957)

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Noah's Ark (1928)

Edward G. Robinson, Bobs Watson, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Blackmail (1939)

Carrie Daumery, Allan Lane, Zasu Pitts, Thelma Todd, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in War Mamas (1931)

Marion Davies, 'Little Billy' Rhodes, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Polly of the Circus (1932)

Ray Milland, Marion Davies, Ralph Forbes, Nina Quartero, C. Aubrey Smith, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in The Bachelor Father (1931)

Ginger Rogers and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Rafter Romance (1933)

Janet Chandler, Robert F. Hill, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Cowboy Holiday (1934)

Robert Mitchum, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, and Harry Woods in Nevada (1944)

Robert Mitchum and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Nevada (1944)

Robert Mitchum, Richard Martin, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Nevada (1944)

Roy Rogers, Dorothy Christy, Dale Evans, Mary Lee, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, and Trigger in Cowboy and the Senorita (1944)

Barbara Jo Allen, Jane Frazee, Charles Starrett, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Cowboy Canteen (1944)

Lynn Bari, Chester Clute, June Gale, Tom Kennedy, Larry McGrath, Michael Whalen, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Pardon Our Nerve (1939)

Ken Curtis and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Throw a Saddle on a Star (1946)

Gordon Oliver, Dick Powell, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Station West (1948)

Leo Carrillo, Tex Palmer, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Riders of Death Valley (1941)

Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Legion of Lost Flyers (1939)

John Shelton and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in Road to the Big House (1947)

Al St. John and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in The Law of the 45's (1935)

Frank Lackteen, Rodd Redwing, Frances Rey, Nick Thompson, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, and Chief Yowlachie in Singin' in the Corn (1946)

Hardie Albright, Sally Blane, Arthur Lake, Charles Starrett, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams in The Silver Streak (1934)

The son of a rancher-turned-politician, Guinn Williams was given the nickname "Big Boy" (and he was, too - 6' 2" of mostly solid muscle from years of working on ranches and playing semi-pro and pro baseball) by Will Rogers, with whom he made one of his first films, in 1919. Although his father wanted him to attend West Point (he had been an officer in the Army during World War I), Williams had always wanted to act and made his way to Hollywood in 1919. His experience as a cowboy and rodeo rider got him work as a stuntman, and he gradually worked his way up to acting. He became friends with Rogers and together they made around 15 films. Additionally,in a film that has recently received critical acclaim, he appeared alongside Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor in the silent film Lucky Star (1929), playing a brute vying for the affections of Janet Gaynor in competition with a returning war veteran, played by Charles Farrell. He then easily made the transition from silents to talkies. Although he also starred in a series of low-budget westerns in the early and mid-1930s, he really came into his own as a supporting player in the late 1930s and early 1940s, especially at Warner Bros., where he appeared in such resoundingly successful westerns as Dodge City (1939) and Santa Fe Trail (1940) with his friends Errol Flynn and Alan Hale. Williams specialized in the somewhat dim and quick-tempered but basically decent sidekick, a role he would play for the next 20 years or so. He also made sound films other than westerns, and was in, for example, A Star Is Born (1937). Late in his career, he won the hearts of TV viewers in a regular role as Pete, the comedic roadie in Circus Boy (1956). In the early 1960s Williams' health began to deteriorate, which was noticeable in his last film, The Comancheros (1961), in which he had a small part and, sadly, did not look well at all. He died of uremic poisoning shortly afterwards.

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