---
name: "Joe Downing"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joe-downing"
fi1m_id: "joe-downing"
imdb_id: "nm0236110"
tmdb_id: 84639
wikidata_id: "Q60743508"
roles: []
born: "26 June 1903"
died: "16 October 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T02:42:32.590285+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Joe Downing

## Identity

Joe Downing

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joe-downing
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joe-downing
- **IMDb ID:** nm0236110
- **TMDB ID:** 84639
- **Wikidata ID:** Q60743508
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Downing, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60743508, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236110/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84639

Actor. Born 26 June 1903 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 16 October 1975.

## Details

- **Born:** 26 June 1903, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 16 October 1975
- **Also known as:** Joseph Downing
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Downing, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60743508, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236110/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84639

## Biography

Joe Downing (also credited as Joseph Downing) was an American actor who appeared in more than 70 stage, film and television roles, often as gangsters in B-movies.

He began his career on Broadway in the early 1930s, with credits including *A Farewell to Arms* (1930), *Dead End* (1935) and *Ramshackle Inn* (1944), after earlier work with the Theatre Guild. His film debut was in *Dr. Socrates* (1935).

Downing's film roles include *A Slight Case of Murder* (1938), *Each Dawn I Die* (1939), *Johnny Eager* (1941) and *The Big Shot* (1942). He appeared three times on *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* between 1956 and 1958.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Angels with Dirty Faces* (1938), Fi1m 82, as Steve — [page](https://film.one/film/angels-with-dirty-faces.md)

## Complete filmography (47)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Blood* (1973), as The New Realton
- *Glynis* (1963), series, Actor
- *Going My Way* (1962), series, Actor
- *87th Precinct* (1961), series, Actor
- *The Donna Reed Show* (1958), series, Actor
- *Slaughter on 10th Avenue* (1957), as Eddie 'Cockeye' Cook
- *Fighting Trouble* (1956), as Hal Lomax
- *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), series, as Floyd Unser, Lieutenant Al Hawkshaw, Kramer--Detective
- *Sergeant Preston of the Yukon* (1955), series, Actor
- *Navy Log* (1955), series, Actor
- *The Millionaire* (1955), series, as Pete Fullerton, Frankie
- *General Electric Theater* (1953), series, as Lieutenant
- *Four Star Playhouse* (1952), series, as Gus Anderson
- *Suspense* (1949), series, Actor
- *The Philco Television Playhouse* (1948), series, as Patton
- *Lucky Jordan* (1942), as Harrison
- *You Can't Escape Forever* (1942), as Varney (uncredited)
- *The Big Shot* (1942), as Frenchy
- *Larceny, Inc.* (1942), as Smitty
- *Johnny Eager* (1941), as Ryan (as Joseph Downing)
- *Unholy Partners* (1941), as Jerry
- *Belle Starr* (1941), as Jim Cole
- *Strange Alibi* (1941), as Benny McKaye
- *San Francisco Docks* (1940), as Cassidy
- *The Secret Seven* (1940), as Lou Boyd
- *Castle on the Hudson* (1940), as Gangster in Car (uncredited)
- *Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!* (1940), as 'Doc' Kendrick - Bank Robber
- *Invisible Stripes* (1939), as Johnny
- *Missing Evidence* (1939), as Marty Peters
- *Another Thin Man* (1939), as Hoodlum (uncredited)
- *Smashing the Money Ring* (1939), as Dice Mathews
- *Each Dawn I Die* (1939), as Limpy Julien
- *The Forgotten Woman* (1939), as Johnny Bradshaw
- *Torchy Runs for Mayor* (1939), as Spuds O'Brien
- *You Can't Get Away with Murder* (1939), as Smitty
- *North of Shanghai* (1939), as Chandler
- *Angels with Dirty Faces* (1938), as Steve — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/angels-with-dirty-faces.md)
- *The Night Hawk* (1938), as Lefty
- *Racket Busters* (1938), as Joe Pender
- *Danger on the Air* (1938), as Joe Carney
- *The Devil's Party* (1938), as Frank Diamond
- *The Lady in the Morgue* (1938), as Steve Collins
- *Wide Open Faces* (1938), as Stretch
- *A Slight Case of Murder* (1938), as Innocence
- *Borrowing Trouble* (1937), as Charlie
- *Dr. Socrates* (1935), as Cinq Laval
- *The Case of the Lucky Legs* (1935), as George Sanborne (as Joseph Downing)

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