Joe King

Personal Info

Birthday

February 8, 1883

Day of Death

1951-04-11

(68 years old)

Place of Birth

Austin, Texas, USA

Also Known As

Joseph King

Joseph Sayer King

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

Sergeant York

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

They Died with Their Boots On

Tin Gods

Bullets or Ballots

Alexander's Ragtime Band

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

Filmography

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