Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

124

Gender

Male

Birthday

1883-02-08

Deathday

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

7.9%

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Oct 19, 1939

7.2%

Sergeant York

Sep 27, 1941

7.2%

Destry Rides Again

Nov 30, 1939

6.6%

The Glass Key

Sep 8, 1942

6.6%

They Died with Their Boots On

Nov 20, 1941

6.2%

The Walking Dead

Mar 1, 1936

7.2%

Gentleman Jim

Nov 14, 1942

6.0%

Black Friday

Feb 29, 1940

6.6%

Bullets or Ballots

Jun 6, 1936

6.4%

In Old Chicago

Apr 15, 1938

6.5%

San Quentin

May 24, 1937

5.9%

Satan Met a Lady

Jul 22, 1936

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Acting

1956

Thunder Beach as Narrator

1946

Magnificent Doll as Jailer

1943		His Butler's Sister as Train Conductor
1943		Bombardier as General Barnes
1943		She Has What It Takes as Lee Shuleman
1943		Keep 'Em Slugging as Scott

1942		Gentleman Jim as Col. McLane (uncredited)
1942		Silver Queen as Colonel (uncredited)
1942		The Glass Key as Fisher (uncredited)
1942		The Big Shot as Prosecutor Toohey
1942		Butch Minds the Baby as Police Lieutenant

1941		They Died with Their Boots On as Chairman of Hearing (uncredited)
1941		Sergeant York as Draft Board Chairman (uncredited)
1941		Badlands of Dakota as Ship's Captain
1941		Bullets for O'Hara as Maxwell
1941		Strange Alibi as Warden Morrell
1941		Blondie Goes Latin as Captain of the Cruz del Sur (uncredited)

1940		Trail of the Vigilantes as Ellery
1940		Always a Bride as Mr. Franklyn
1940		The Flag of Humanity as President Rutherford B. Hayes (uncredited)
1940		Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum as Inspector O'Matthews
1940		When the Daltons Rode as Oklahoma Sheriff
1940		You're Not So Tough as Collins
1940		It's a Date as First Mate Kelly
1940		Black Friday as Chief of Police
1940		Danger On Wheels as Race Commissioner

1939		Destry Rides Again as Sheriff Keogh
1939		Smashing the Money Ring as Saxby
1939		Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Summers (uncredited)
1939		Code of the Secret Service as Tom 'Jim' Saxby
1939		East Side of Heaven as Detective (uncredited)
1939		Let Us Live as Inspector Cavanaugh (uncredited)
1939		You Can't Get Away with Murder as Prison Guard
1939		My Son Is a Criminal as Jerry Kingsley
1939		You Can't Cheat an Honest Man as Policeman (uncredited)
1939		Off the Record as Brown

1938		Heart of the North as Mac Drummond
1938		Gateway as Inspector
1938		City Streets as Mike Shanahan
1938		Alexander's Ragtime Band as Charles Dillingham
1938		In Old Chicago as Ship's Captain
1938		Arsène Lupin Returns as Inspector Hennessey (uncredited)

1937		Big Town Girl as Detective
1937		Hot Water as Mayor Roberts
1937		White Bondage as Trent Talcott
1937		Fly Away Baby as Guy Allister
1937		Armored Car as Tom Sheridan
1937		San Quentin as Warden Taylor
1937		Mountain Justice as Judge at Ruth's Trial
1937		That Man's Here Again as Mr. Ned Murdock
1937		Land Beyond the Law as Lew Wallace (uncredited)
1937		Once a Doctor as Frank Brace
1937		God's Country and the Woman as Red Munro

1936		Polo Joe as Colonel Hilton
1936		China Clipper as Mr. Pierson
1936		Jailbreak as Mike Eagan
1936		Public Enemy's Wife as Wilcox
1936		Satan Met a Lady as Detective (uncredited)
1936		The Case of the Velvet Claws as George C. Belter
1936		Bullets or Ballots as Dan 'Mac' McLaren
1936		Sons o' Guns as General Harper
1936		The Singing Kid as Dr. May
1936		Snowed Under as John - in a Doorman's Uniform (uncredited)
1936		Road Gang as J. W. Moett
1936		The Walking Dead as Judge Roger Shaw
1936		Freshman Love as Terry Biddle (uncredited)

1935		Man of Iron as Harrison Balding
1935		Broadway Hostess as Big Joe Jarvis
1935		Frisco Kid as James "Jim" Daley (as Joseph King)
1935		Moonlight on the Prairie as Sheriff Jim
1935		Shipmates Forever as Commander Doughlin (uncredited)
1935		Special Agent as Agent Wilson
1935		We're in the Money as Mr. Blank(scenes deleted)
1935		Front Page Woman as Hartnett
1935		Stranded as Dan Archer (uncredited)
1935		Alibi Ike as Johnson

1934		Woman in the Dark as Detective
1934		Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen as Police Dispatcher

1930

Roadhouse Nights as John Hanson

1929		The Battle of Paris as Jack
1929		The Laughing Lady as City Editor

1926

Tin Gods as First Foreman

1924		Unguarded Women as Captain Robert Banning
1924		The Masked Dancer as Fred Sinclair

1923		Big Brother as Big Ben Murray
1923		Twenty-One as Mr. McCullough
1923		The Daring Years as Jim Moran, pugilist

1922

The Valley of Silent Men

1921		Anne of Little Smoky as Bob Hayne
1921		Moral Fibre as John Corliss

1920		Man and Woman as Joe
1920		The North Wind's Malice as Henry Carter
1920		The Broadway Bubble as Geoffrey Landreth
1920		The Woman God Sent as Jack West Jr.

1919		The Right To Lie as Crosby Dana
1919		Love's Prisoner as Jim Garside
1919		False Evidence as Lot Gordon
1919		The Imp

1918		Irish Eyes as Sir Arthur Ormsby
1918		The Secret Code as Jefferson Harrow
1918		Shifting Sands as John Stanford
1918		Every Woman's Husband as Frank Emerson
1918		The Price of Applause as Marcarson

1917		Until They Get Me as Selwyn
1917		Betty and the Buccaneers as Dick Winthrop
1917		The Rose Of Blood as Prime Minister
1917		The Law North of 65 as Niklo
1917		Big Timber as Walter Monahan
1917		Wild Winship's Widow as Morley Morgan
1917		Hell Hath No Fury

1916

The Selfish Woman as Donald McKenzie

1915

The Ring of Destiny as Big Bill

1914		The White Mouse as Lawler
1914		Etienne of the Glad Heart as Olaf - a Trapper
1914		The Wilderness Mail as Otto, the Mail Driver
1914		In Defiance of the Law as Scottie Deane
1914		Lost by a Hair as Rejected Suitor
1914		When the Night Call Came
1914		A Wife on a Wager
1914		Love's Western Flight
1914		Passing of the Beast as Gilbert - the Mountie

1913		The Battle of Gettysburg as Jack Lamar
1913		When Lincoln Paid

1912

The Ball Player and the Bandit as Harry's Rival

Directing

1916

Her Defiance as Director