Joe King
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Subject: Joe King (actor).
Goal: Write a 90-130 word factual identity profile.
Constraints: Use ONLY provided facts. No invention. Plain prose only. No markdown, no headings, no bullet points, no preamble.
Target Word Count: 90-130 words.
Source [1]: Joe King, male, born Feb 8, 1883 (TMDB) or Feb 9, 1883 (IMDb), died April 11, 1951 (68 years old), born Austin, Texas, USA. Known for acting. 139 credits. Also known as Joseph King or Jose.
Source [2]: Joe King, Feb 9, 1883 – April 11, 1951. American actor of silent films and talkies, director, and writer.
Source [3]: Born Feb 9, 1883, Austin, Texas, USA. Actor and director. Known for Smashing the Money Ring (1939), Bullets or Ballots (1936), and Special Agent (1935). Married to Hazel Buckham. Died April 11, 1951, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Source [4]: American screen and stage actor. Film career 1912 to 1946. Wrote story for a 1915 movie. Directed two 1916 films.
Source [5]: Irrelevant (Kevin James).
Name: Joe King (also Joseph King or Jose).
Profession: American screen and stage actor, director, and writer. Actor of silent films and talkies.
Birth: February 9, 1883, in Austin, Texas, USA. (Note: TMDB says Feb 8, but IMDb/Wikipedia say Feb 9. I will use the date provided in the majority/specific sources or just mention the birth year/location to be safe, but usually, I should stick to what is there. I'll use February 9, 1883).
Death: April
Career overview
Role: Meticulous television and film archivist.
Task: Write a 180-260 word career overview of Joe King (Acting).
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Use ONLY verifiable facts from the provided SYNOPSIS and SOURCES.
No inventing/guessing titles, names, dates, etc.
No markdown, no asterisks, no headings, no bullet points.
Plain text, neutral, encyclopedic prose.
Length: 180-260 words.
Structure: 2-3 short paragraphs.
[1] TMDB: Joe King, American screen and stage actor. Film career 1912 to 1946. Wrote story for 1915 movie, directed two 1916 films. Known credits: 139. Gender: Male. Birthday: Feb 8, 1883. Death: April 11, 1951 (68 years old). Birthplace: Austin, Texas, USA. Also known as: Joseph King, Jose.
[2] Wikipedia: Joe King (Feb 9, 1883 – April 11, 1951). American actor of silent films and talkies, director, and writer.
[3] IMDb: Born Feb 9, 1883 in Austin, Texas, USA. Actor and director. Known for Smashing the Money Ring (1939), Bullets or Ballots (1936), and Special Agent (1935). Married to Hazel Buckham. Died April 11, 1951 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
[4] TMDB Bio: American screen and stage actor. Film career 1912 to 1946. Wrote story for 1915 movie, directed two 1916 films.
[5] Kevin James: Irrelevant (different person).
Name: Joe King (also known as Joseph King or Jose).
Profession: American screen and stage actor, director, and writer. Worked in silent films and talkies.
Career Span: 1912 to 1946.
Credits: 139 known credits.
Specific Works: Smashing the Money Ring (1939), Bullets or Ballots (1936), Special Agent (1935).
Directing/Writing: Wrote the story for a 1915 movie; directed two 1916 films.
Personal: Born Feb 8 or 9, 1883 (sources differ, I will use the dates provided or just say 1883) in Austin, Texas. Died April 11, 1951, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. Married to Hazel Buckham.
Draft 1 (Mental Outline):
Joe King, also known as Joseph King or Jose, was an American actor, director, and writer. His career as a screen and stage actor spanned from 1912 to 1946. He worked in both silent films and talkies. His known credits include 139 entries. He is recognized for his work in Smashing the Money Ring (1939), Bullets or Ballots (1936), and Special Agent (1935).
In addition to acting, King contributed to film production as a writer and director. He wrote the story for a movie in 1915 and directed two films in 1916. King was born in Austin, Texas, in 1883 and was married to Hazel Buckham. He died on April 11, 1951, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.
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139 titles- Thunder Beach (1956) as Narrator
- Magnificent Doll (1946) as Jailer (uncredited)
- His Butler's Sister (1943) as Train Conductor
- She Has What It Takes (1943) as Lee Shuleman
- Bombardier (1943) as General Barnes
- Keep 'Em Slugging (1943) as Scott
- The Glass Key (1942) as Fisher (uncredited)
- Gentleman Jim (1942) as Col. McLane (uncredited)
- Butch Minds the Baby (1942) as Police Lieutenant
- The Big Shot (1942) as Prosecutor Toohey
- Silver Queen (1942) as Colonel (uncredited)
- Sergeant York (1941) as Draft Board Chairman (uncredited)
- They Died with Their Boots On (1941) as Chairman of Hearing (uncredited)
- Bullets for O'Hara (1941) as Maxwell
- Badlands of Dakota (1941) as Ship's Captain
- Blondie Goes Latin (1941) as Captain of the Cruz del Sur (uncredited)
- Strange Alibi (1941) as Warden Morrell
- When the Daltons Rode (1940) as Oklahoma Sheriff
- Trail of the Vigilantes (1940) as Ellery
- It's a Date (1940) as First Mate Kelly
- Black Friday (1940) as Chief of Police
- The Flag of Humanity (1940) as President Rutherford B. Hayes (uncredited)
- Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940) as Inspector O'Matthews
- You're Not So Tough (1940) as Collins
- Danger On Wheels (1940) as Race Commissioner
- Always a Bride (1940) as Mr. Franklyn
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) as Summers (uncredited)
- Destry Rides Again (1939) as Sheriff Keogh
- Smashing the Money Ring (1939) as Saxby
- You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939) as Prison Guard
- You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) as Policeman (uncredited)
- East Side of Heaven (1939) as Detective (uncredited)
- Code of the Secret Service (1939) as Tom 'Jim' Saxby
- Let Us Live (1939) as Inspector Cavanaugh (uncredited)
- My Son Is a Criminal (1939) as Jerry Kingsley
- Off the Record (1939) as Brown
- In Old Chicago (1938) as Ship's Captain
- Heart of the North (1938) as Mac Drummond
- Strange Faces (1938) as Police Lt. Hennigan
- Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) as Charles Dillingham
- Arsène Lupin Returns (1938) as Inspector Hennessey (uncredited)
- Gateway (1938) as Inspector
- City Streets (1938) as Mike Shanahan
- Land Beyond the Law (1937) as Lew Wallace (uncredited)
- That Man's Here Again (1937) as Mr. Ned Murdock
- God's Country and the Woman (1937) as Red Munro
- San Quentin (1937) as Warden Taylor
- Mountain Justice (1937) as Judge at Ruth's Trial
- Big Town Girl (1937) as Detective
- Once a Doctor (1937) as Frank Brace
- Armored Car (1937) as Tom Sheridan
- Hot Water (1937) as Mayor Roberts
- Fly Away Baby (1937) as Guy Allister
- White Bondage (1937) as Trent Talcott
- The Walking Dead (1936) as Judge Roger Shaw
- Satan Met a Lady (1936) as Detective (uncredited)
- Bullets or Ballots (1936) as Dan 'Mac' McLaren
- Road Gang (1936) as J. W. Moett
- Public Enemy's Wife (1936) as Wilcox
- The Case of the Velvet Claws (1936) as George C. Belter
- Freshman Love (1936) as Terry Biddle (uncredited)
- China Clipper (1936) as Mr. Pierson
- Jailbreak (1936) as Mike Eagan
- Sons o' Guns (1936) as General Harper
- The Singing Kid (1936) as Dr. May
- Polo Joe (1936) as Colonel Hilton
- Snowed Under (1936) as John - in a Doorman's Uniform (uncredited)
- We're in the Money (1935) as Mr. Blank(scenes deleted)
- Special Agent (1935) as Agent Wilson
- Moonlight on the Prairie (1935) as Sheriff Jim
- Front Page Woman (1935) as Hartnett
- Frisco Kid (1935) as James "Jim" Daley (as Joseph King)
- Broadway Hostess (1935) as Big Joe Jarvis
- Stranded (1935) as Dan Archer (uncredited)
- Shipmates Forever (1935) as Commander Doughlin (uncredited)
- Alibi Ike (1935) as Johnson
- Man of Iron (1935) as Harrison Balding
- Woman in the Dark (1934) as Detective
- Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen (1934) as Police Dispatcher
- The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932) as Bailiff (uncredited)
- Roadhouse Nights (1930) as John Hanson
- The Battle of Paris (1929) as Jack
- The Laughing Lady (1929) as City Editor
- Tin Gods (1926) as First Foreman
- Unguarded Women (1924) as Captain Robert Banning
- The Masked Dancer (1924) as Fred Sinclair
- Big Brother (1923) as Big Ben Murray
- Twenty-One (1923) as Mr. McCullough
- The Daring Years (1923) as Jim Moran, pugilist
- With Stanley in Africa (1922) as David Livingstone
- Sisters (1922) as Martin Lloyd
- The Valley of Silent Men (1922)
- Moral Fibre (1921) as John Corliss
- Anne of Little Smoky (1921) as Bob Hayne
- The Idol of the North (1921) as Sergeant McNair
- The Girl with the Jazz Heart (1921) as Miles Sprague
- The Scarab Ring (1921) as Ward Locke
- The North Wind's Malice (1920) as Henry Carter
- Man and Woman (1920) as Joe
- The Woman God Sent (1920) as Jack West Jr.
- The Broadway Bubble (1920) as Geoffrey Landreth
- The Right To Lie (1919) as Crosby Dana
- The Way of the Strong (1919) as Alexander Hendrie
- Love's Prisoner (1919) as Jim Garside
- False Evidence (1919) as Lot Gordon
- The Imp (1919) as The Leopard
- Shifting Sands (1918) as John Stanford
- Every Woman's Husband (1918) as Frank Emerson
- The Hand at the Window (1918) as Roderick Moran
- The Answer (1918) as John Warfield
- The Price of Applause (1918) as Marcarson
- The Secret Code (1918) as Jefferson Harrow
- Irish Eyes (1918) as Sir Arthur Ormsby
- Hell Hath No Fury (1917)
- The Sea Master (1917) as Pedro
- Wild Winship's Widow (1917) as Morley Morgan
- Until They Get Me (1917) as Selwyn
- Madame du Barry (1917)
- The Rose Of Blood (1917) as Prime Minister
- The Law North of 65 (1917) as Niklo
- Sands of Sacrifice (1917) as Sophier
- Betty and the Buccaneers (1917) as Dick Winthrop
- Big Timber (1917) as Walter Monahan
- The Selfish Woman (1916) as Donald McKenzie
- Her Defiance (1916) Director
- The Ring of Destiny (1915) as Big Bill
- Passing of the Beast (1914) as Gilbert - the Mountie
- Etienne of the Glad Heart (1914) as Olaf - a Trapper
- Lost by a Hair (1914) as Rejected Suitor
- Love's Western Flight (1914)
- A Wife on a Wager (1914)
- In Defiance of the Law (1914) as Scottie Deane
- When the Night Call Came (1914)
- The Wilderness Mail (1914) as Otto, the Mail Driver
- The White Mouse (1914) as Lawler
- The Battle of Gettysburg (1913) as Jack Lamar
- When Lincoln Paid (1913)
- When Lee Surrenders (1912)
- The Ball Player and the Bandit (1912) as Harry's Rival
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Joe King is widely recognized for notable roles and projects including Luisa Fernanda (1999), Beast King GoLion (1981), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), De brutas nada (2020).
When and where was Joe King born?
Joe King was born on February 8, 1883 in Austin, Texas, USA. They passed away on April 11, 1951.
How many credits does Joe King have?
Joe King has accumulated over 139 film and television credits across a career spanning from 1920 to 1956.
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Subject: Joe King (actor). Goal: Write a 90-130 word factual identity profile. Constraints: Use ONLY provided facts. No invention. Plain prose only. No markdown, no headings, no bullet points, no preamble. Target Word Count: 90-130 words. Source [1]: Joe King, male, born Feb 8, 1883 (TMDB) or Feb 9, 1883 (IMDb), died A...
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Age in their best-rated roles
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) as Summers (uncredited) — aged about 56
- The Walking Dead (1936) as Judge Roger Shaw — aged about 53
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