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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1883-02-08 (142 years old)

Place of Birth

Austin, Texas, USA

Joe King

Biography:

Joe King was an American screen and stage actor, his film career spanning the years 1912 to 1946. In addition, he wrote the story for a 1915 movie and directed two 1916 films.

Known For

Acting

1956

Thunder Beach as Narrator

1946

1943

She Has What It Takes as Lee Shuleman
Bombardier as General Barnes
His Butler's Sister as Train Conductor

1942

The Big Shot as Prosecutor Toohey
Butch Minds the Baby as Police Lieutenant
The Glass Key as Fisher (uncredited)
Gentleman Jim as Col. McLane (uncredited)
Silver Queen as Colonel (uncredited)

1941

Strange Alibi as Warden Morrell
Sergeant York as Draft Board Chairman (uncredited)
Badlands of Dakota as Ship's Captain
They Died with Their Boots On as Chairman of Hearing (uncredited)
Blondie Goes Latin as Captain of the Cruz del Sur (uncredited)

1940

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum as Inspector O'Matthews
Black Friday as Chief of Police
When the Daltons Rode as Oklahoma Sheriff
Danger On Wheels as Race Commissioner
It's a Date as First Mate Kelly
Always a Bride as Mr. Franklyn
The Flag of Humanity as President Rutherford B. Hayes (uncredited)

1939

Code of the Secret Service as Tom 'Jim' Saxby
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man as Policeman (uncredited)
Let Us Live as Inspector Cavanaugh (uncredited)
East Side of Heaven as Detective (uncredited)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Summers (uncredited)
Destry Rides Again as Sheriff Keogh
My Son Is a Criminal as Jerry Kingsley

1938

Alexander's Ragtime Band as Charles Dillingham
City Streets as Mike Shanahan
Arsène Lupin Returns as Inspector Hennessey (uncredited)
Heart of the North as Mac Drummond
Gateway as Inspector
In Old Chicago as Ship's Captain

1937

Mountain Justice as Judge at Ruth's Trial
Armored Car as Tom Sheridan
That Man's Here Again as Mr. Ned Murdock
Fly Away Baby as Guy Allister
Once a Doctor as Frank Brace
White Bondage as Trent Talcott
Land Beyond the Law as Lew Wallace (uncredited)
San Quentin as Warden Taylor
Big Town Girl as Detective
Hot Water as Mayor Roberts

1936

The Walking Dead as Judge Roger Shaw
Bullets or Ballots as Dan 'Mac' McLaren
The Case of the Velvet Claws as George C. Belter
Road Gang as J. W. Moett
Polo Joe as Colonel Hilton
Jailbreak as Mike Eagan
Freshman Love as Terry Biddle (uncredited)
The Singing Kid as Dr. May
Sons o' Guns as General Harper
Satan Met a Lady as Detective (uncredited)
China Clipper as Mr. Pierson
Snowed Under as John - in a Doorman's Uniform (uncredited)

1935

We're in the Money as Mr. Blank(scenes deleted)
Special Agent as Agent Wilson
Alibi Ike as Johnson
Frisco Kid as James "Jim" Daley (as Joseph King)
Broadway Hostess as Big Joe Jarvis
Man of Iron as Harrison Balding
Front Page Woman as Hartnett
Shipmates Forever as Commander Doughlin (uncredited)
Stranded as Dan Archer (uncredited)

1934

Woman in the Dark as Detective
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen as Police Dispatcher

1930

Roadhouse Nights as John Hanson

1929

The Laughing Lady as City Editor

1926

Tin Gods as First Foreman

1924

Unguarded Women as Captain Robert Banning
The Masked Dancer as Fred Sinclair

1923

Big Brother as Big Ben Murray
Twenty-One as Mr. McCullough
The Daring Years as Jim Moran, pugilist

1922

1921

Moral Fibre as John Corliss

1920

The Broadway Bubble as Geoffrey Landreth
The North Wind's Malice as Henry Carter
The Woman God Sent as Jack West Jr.

1919

The Right To Lie as Crosby Dana
False Evidence as Lot Gordon
Love's Prisoner as Jim Garside

1918

The Secret Code as Jefferson Harrow
Shifting Sands as John Stanford
Irish Eyes as Sir Arthur Ormsby
Every Woman's Husband as Frank Emerson

1917

Betty and the Buccaneers as Dick Winthrop
Big Timber as Walter Monahan
Wild Winship's Widow as Morley Morgan
The Rose Of Blood as Prime Minister

1916

The Selfish Woman as Donald McKenzie

1915

1914

The White Mouse as Lawler
Etienne of the Glad Heart as Olaf - a Trapper
The Wilderness Mail as Otto, the Mail Driver
In Defiance of the Law as Scottie Deane
Passing of the Beast as Gilbert - the Mountie
Lost by a Hair as Rejected Suitor

1913

1912

Directing

1916

Her Defiance as Director