Joe King
Acting1883Austin, Texas, USA
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
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Summers (uncredited)
Sergeant York
Draft Board Chairman (uncredited)
Destry Rides Again
Sheriff Keogh
The Glass Key
Fisher (uncredited)
They Died with Their Boots On
Chairman of Hearing (uncredited)
The Walking Dead
Judge Roger Shaw
Gentleman Jim
Col. McLane (uncredited)
Black Friday
Chief of Police
Acting History
1956
Thunder Beach
as Narrator
1946
Magnificent Doll
as Jailer (uncredited)
1943
Bombardier
as General Barnes
His Butler's Sister
as Train Conductor
Keep 'Em Slugging
as Scott
She Has What It Takes
as Lee Shuleman
1942
The Glass Key
as Fisher (uncredited)
Silver Queen
as Colonel (uncredited)
The Big Shot
as Prosecutor Toohey
Gentleman Jim
as Col. McLane (uncredited)
Butch Minds the Baby
as Police Lieutenant
1941
Sergeant York
as Draft Board Chairman (uncredited)
They Died with Their Boots On
as Chairman of Hearing (uncredited)
Strange Alibi
as Warden Morrell
Blondie Goes Latin
as Captain of the Cruz del Sur (uncredited)
Badlands of Dakota
as Ship's Captain
Bullets for O'Hara
as Maxwell
1940
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
as Inspector O'Matthews
The Flag of Humanity
as President Rutherford B. Hayes (uncredited)
Black Friday
as Chief of Police
It's a Date
as First Mate Kelly
When the Daltons Rode
as Oklahoma Sheriff
You're Not So Tough
as Collins
Trail of the Vigilantes
as Ellery
Danger On Wheels
as Race Commissioner
Always a Bride
as Mr. Franklyn
1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Summers (uncredited)
Smashing the Money Ring
as Saxby
Off the Record
as Brown
Let Us Live
as Inspector Cavanaugh (uncredited)
Code of the Secret Service
as Tom 'Jim' Saxby
Destry Rides Again
as Sheriff Keogh
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
as Policeman (uncredited)
You Can't Get Away with Murder
as Prison Guard
My Son Is a Criminal
as Jerry Kingsley
East Side of Heaven
as Detective (uncredited)
1938
Alexander's Ragtime Band
as Charles Dillingham
Arsène Lupin Returns
as Inspector Hennessey (uncredited)
City Streets
as Mike Shanahan
Heart of the North
as Mac Drummond
In Old Chicago
as Ship's Captain
Gateway
as Inspector
1937
San Quentin
as Warden Taylor
Hot Water
as Mayor Roberts
White Bondage
as Trent Talcott
Big Town Girl
as Detective
Armored Car
as Tom Sheridan
Fly Away Baby
as Guy Allister
God's Country and the Woman
as Red Munro
Mountain Justice
as Judge at Ruth's Trial
Land Beyond the Law
as Lew Wallace (uncredited)
That Man's Here Again
as Mr. Ned Murdock
Once a Doctor
as Frank Brace
1936
China Clipper
as Mr. Pierson
Snowed Under
as John - in a Doorman's Uniform (uncredited)
Sons o' Guns
as General Harper
Bullets or Ballots
as Dan 'Mac' McLaren
The Walking Dead
as Judge Roger Shaw
Polo Joe
as Colonel Hilton
The Case of the Velvet Claws
as George C. Belter
Road Gang
as J. W. Moett
Satan Met a Lady
as Detective (uncredited)
The Singing Kid
as Dr. May
Public Enemy's Wife
as Wilcox
Freshman Love
as Terry Biddle (uncredited)
Jailbreak
as Mike Eagan
1935
Stranded
as Dan Archer (uncredited)
Frisco Kid
as James "Jim" Daley (as Joseph King)
Special Agent
as Agent Wilson
Alibi Ike
as Johnson
We're in the Money
as Mr. Blank(scenes deleted)
Front Page Woman
as Hartnett
Broadway Hostess
as Big Joe Jarvis
Moonlight on the Prairie
as Sheriff Jim
Shipmates Forever
as Commander Doughlin (uncredited)
Man of Iron
as Harrison Balding
1934
Woman in the Dark
as Detective
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
as Police Dispatcher
1932
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
as Bailiff (uncredited)
1930
Roadhouse Nights
as John Hanson
1929
The Laughing Lady
as City Editor
The Battle of Paris
as Jack
1926
Tin Gods
as First Foreman
1924
Unguarded Women
as Captain Robert Banning
The Masked Dancer
as Fred Sinclair
1923
1922
With Stanley in Africa
as David Livingstone
1921
Anne of Little Smoky
as Bob Hayne
The Girl with the Jazz Heart
as Miles Sprague
Moral Fibre
as John Corliss
The Idol of the North
as Sergeant McNair
1920
The North Wind's Malice
as Henry Carter
The Broadway Bubble
as Geoffrey Landreth
Man and Woman
as Joe
The Woman God Sent
as Jack West Jr.
1919
The Way of the Strong
as Alexander Hendrie
Love's Prisoner
as Jim Garside
The Right To Lie
as Crosby Dana
False Evidence
as Lot Gordon
The Imp
as The Leopard
1918
Shifting Sands
as John Stanford
Irish Eyes
as Sir Arthur Ormsby
The Price of Applause
as Marcarson
Every Woman's Husband
as Frank Emerson
The Secret Code
as Jefferson Harrow
The Answer
as John Warfield
1917
Big Timber
as Walter Monahan
Wild Winship's Widow
as Morley Morgan
Until They Get Me
as Selwyn
Betty and the Buccaneers
as Dick Winthrop
The Rose Of Blood
as Prime Minister
The Law North of 65
as Niklo
1916
The Selfish Woman
as Donald McKenzie
Her Defiance
Director
1915
The Ring of Destiny
as Big Bill
1914
Lost by a Hair
as Rejected Suitor
In Defiance of the Law
as Scottie Deane
The Wilderness Mail
as Otto, the Mail Driver
The White Mouse
as Lawler
Etienne of the Glad Heart
as Olaf - a Trapper
Passing of the Beast
as Gilbert - the Mountie
1913
The Battle of Gettysburg
as Jack Lamar
1912
The Ball Player and the Bandit
as Harry's Rival