Joe King
Acting
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.
Born: February 8, 1883
Place of Birth: Austin, Texas, USA
Known For
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge.
Sergeant York
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
Destry Rides Again
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
Gentleman Jim
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
East Side of Heaven
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
His Butler's Sister
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
Land Beyond the Law
A wild cowboy changes course and becomes a sheriff after his father is murdered.
Snowed Under
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer Arthur Layton sends Alice, Alan's first wife, to help him stick to business. But then Daisy, his second wife, shows up wanting her alimony. Stranded with two wives, a girlfriend, and a jug of applejack, Alan still has to finish his play!
Madame du Barry
After Jeanette becomes the mistress of the ambitious Jean du Barry, he marries her off to one of his cousins so that she has an entre to the royal court. She soon becomes the favorite of the King and Jean du Barry becomes a regular around the court too. But all this is disturbed when Madame du Barry falls for Conte Brissac of the King's Guard. Jean du Barry's attempts to expose her affair only get him banished from the court.
Filmography
as Narrator
as Jailer (uncredited)
as Train Conductor
as General Barnes
as Lee Shuleman
as Scott
as Col. McLane (uncredited)
as Colonel (uncredited)
as Fisher (uncredited)
as Prosecutor Toohey
as Police Lieutenant
as Chairman of Hearing (uncredited)
as Draft Board Chairman (uncredited)
as Ship's Captain
as Maxwell
as Warden Morrell
as Captain of the Cruz del Sur (uncredited)
as Ellery
as Mr. Franklyn
as President Rutherford B. Hayes (uncredited)
as Inspector O'Matthews
as Oklahoma Sheriff
as Collins
as Chief of Police
as First Mate Kelly
as Race Commissioner
as Sheriff Keogh
as Saxby
as Summers (uncredited)
as Tom 'Jim' Saxby
as Detective (uncredited)
as Inspector Cavanaugh (uncredited)
as Prison Guard
as Policeman (uncredited)
as Brown
as Mac Drummond
as Inspector
as Mike Shanahan
as Charles Dillingham
as Ship's Captain
as Inspector Hennessey (uncredited)
as Detective
as Mayor Roberts
as Trent Talcott
as Guy Allister
as Tom Sheridan
as Warden Taylor
as Judge at Ruth's Trial
as Mr. Ned Murdock
as Lew Wallace (uncredited)
as Frank Brace
as Red Munro
as Colonel Hilton
as Mr. Pierson
as Mike Eagan
as Wilcox
as Detective (uncredited)
as George C. Belter
as Dan 'Mac' McLaren
as General Harper
as Dr. May
as John - in a Doorman's Uniform (uncredited)
as J. W. Moett
as Judge Roger Shaw
as Terry Biddle (uncredited)
as Harrison Balding
as Big Joe Jarvis
as James "Jim" Daley (as Joseph King)
as Sheriff Jim
as Commander Doughlin (uncredited)
as Agent Wilson
as Mr. Blank(scenes deleted)
as Hartnett
as Dan Archer (uncredited)
as Johnson
as Detective
as Police Dispatcher
as Bailiff (uncredited)
as John Hanson
as Jack
as City Editor
as First Foreman
as Captain Robert Banning
as Fred Sinclair
as Big Ben Murray
as Mr. McCullough
as Jim Moran, pugilist
as Bob Hayne
as John Corliss
as Sergeant McNair
as Miles Sprague
as Joe
as Henry Carter
as Geoffrey Landreth
as Jack West Jr.
as Crosby Dana
as Jim Garside
as Lot Gordon
as Alexander Hendrie
as The Leopard
as Sir Arthur Ormsby
as Jefferson Harrow
as John Stanford
as Frank Emerson
as John Warfield
as Selwyn
as Dick Winthrop
as Prime Minister
as Walter Monahan
as Morley Morgan
as Donald McKenzie
as Olaf - a Trapper
as Rejected Suitor
as Jack Lamar
as Harry's Rival