- Films
- 82
- Avg rating
- 6.54
- Peak run
- 1939’40
- 7+ run
- 2 films
Every film, by TMDB rating
The career
Dot size shows audience votes. Films below the source vote floor sit on the baseline.
As an actor, films with 25+ votes
Joe by the numbers
Average
6.54
39 rated films
Vote weighted
6.63
bigger films count more
Median
6.4
half are better
Consistency
±0.56
rating spread
Career
32y
1931 to 1962
Total votes
7.72K
across every film
Best
7.8
The Grapes of Wrath
Worst
6.3
It Came from Outer Space
Newest first
Filmography
| 1995 | Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey | Frank Daylon (archive footage) (uncredited) | · | 11 |
| 1962 |  How the West Was Won | Riverboat Officer (uncredited) | 7.0 | 518 |
| 1960 |  North to Alaska | Land Commissioner | 6.5 | 140 |
| 1956 |  The Killing | Mike O'Reilly | 7.6 | 1,778 |
| 1956 | The Kettles in the Ozarks | Bancroft Baines | · | 8 |
| 1954 | Johnny Dark | Carl Svenson | · | 6 |
| 1954 |  Riding Shotgun | Tom Biggert | 6.0 | 31 |
| 1954 |  Taza, Son of Cochise | Sgt. Hamma | 5.6 | 28 |
| 1953 |  It Came from Outer Space | Frank Daylon | 6.3 | 262 |
| 1952 |  Deadline - U.S.A. | Whitey Franks (uncredited) | 6.9 | 84 |
| 1952 | Red Skies of Montana | R. A. 'Pop' Miller | · | 6 |
| 1952 | Indian Uprising | Sgt. Maj. Phineas T. Keogh | · | 10 |
| 1951 |  Comin' Round the Mountain | Kalem McCoy | 6.1 | 25 |
| 1950 | The Flying Missile | Fuss Payne | · | 9 |
| 1949 | And Baby Makes Three | Police officer | · | 6 |
| 1948 |  Coroner Creek | Frank Yordy | 6.2 | 31 |
| 1948 | Fighting Father Dunne | Steve Davis | · | 4 |
| 1948 | Here Comes Trouble | Officer Ames | · | 8 |
| 1947 |  A Double Life | Pete Bonner | 6.3 | 84 |
| 1947 | Big Town After Dark | Monk | · | 10 |
Better together?
Joe Sawyer's regulars
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers. Acting pairs here count billed roles (an actor in a director's top six, co-stars both in the top five); each duo page counts every film they made together in those roles.
Films together: Fred Guiol and Joe Sawyer movies · Charles Lamont and Joe Sawyer movies
Takes