Joe Downing

Downing's early acting experience included work with the Theatre Guild, particularly dancing in The Garrick Gaieties.{{cite news |title=Meet Joe Downing, On Stage Gunman, Off Stage Papa |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23851056/joe_downing/ |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=January 23, 1944 |location=New York, Brooklyn |page=29|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = September 18, 2018}} {{Open access}} His Broadway credits include Ramshackle Inn (1944), Cross-town (1937), Dead End (1935), Ceiling Zero (1935), Page Miss Glory (1934), The Drums Begin (1933), Heat Lightning (1933), Shooting Star (1933), and A Farewell to Arms (1930).{{cite web |title=Joseph Downing |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/joseph-downing-38446 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |accessdate=18 September 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918210145/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/joseph-downing-38446 |archivedate=18 September 2018}}

Downing's film debut came in Doctor Socrates.{{cite news |title=Earns Living Getting Killed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23851361/joe_downing/ |work=Lansing State Journal |date=August 18, 1938 |location=Michigan, Lansing |page=19|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = September 18, 2018}} {{Open access}} Often cast as gangsters, his film credits include A Slight Case of Murder, Danger on the Air, Racket Busters, Each Dawn I Die, and The Big Shot. His television credits include three appearances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents from 1956 to 1958, as well as other anthology series popular during the era.

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• The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935) as George Sanborne
• Dr. Socrates (1935) as Cinq Laval
• Borrowing Trouble (1937) as Charlie
• A Slight Case of Murder (1938) as Innocence
• Wide Open Faces (1938) as Stretch
• The Lady in the Morgue (1938) as Steve Collins
• The Devil's Party (1938) as Frank Diamond
• Danger on the Air (1938) as Joe Carney
• Racket Busters (1938) as Joe Pender, Martin's Henchman
• I Am the Law (1938) as Tom Cronin (uncredited)
• The Night Hawk (1938) as Lefty
• Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) as Steve (uncredited)
• North of Shanghai (1939) as Chandler
• You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939) as Smitty
• Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939) as Spuds O'Brien
• The Forgotten Woman (1939) as Johnny Bradshaw
• Each Dawn I Die (1939) as Limpy Julien
• Smashing the Money Ring (1939) as Dice Mathews
• Beware Spooks! (1939) (uncredited)
• Missing Evidence (1939) as Marty Peters
• Another Thin Man (1939) as Hoodlum (uncredited)
• Invisible Stripes (1939) as Johnny
• Oh Johnny, How You Can Love (1940) as 'Doc' Kendrick, Bank Robber
• Castle on the Hudson (1940) as Gangster in Car (uncredited)
• Sandy Is a Lady (1940) as Nick Case
• The Secret Seven (1940) as Lou Bodie
• The San Francisco Docks (1940) as Cassidy
• Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941) as Cigar Store Killer (uncredited)
• Double Date (1941) as Burglar
• Strange Alibi (1941) as Benny McKaye
• Belle Starr (1941) as Jim Cole
• Unholy Partners (1941) as Jerry, Henchman
• Johnny Eager (1941) as Ryan
• Sealed Lips (1942) as Trigger Dolan (uncredited)
• Larceny, Inc. (1942) as Smitty
• My Gal Sal (1942) as Slip (uncredited)
• The Big Shot (1942) as Frenchy (credited as Joseph Downing)
• You Can't Escape Forever (1942) as Varney (uncredited)
• Lucky Jordan (1942) as Harrison (uncredited)
• Las Vegas Shakedown (1955) as Henchman Matty
• Fighting Trouble (1956) as Handsome Hal Lomax
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Season 1 Episode 15: "The Big Switch") (1956) as Lieutenant Al Hawkshaw (credited as Joseph Downing)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Season 1 Episode 22: "Place of Shadows") (1956) as Floyd Unser (credited as Joseph Downing)
• Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957) as Eddie 'Cockeye' Cook
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Season 3 Episode 26: "Bull in a China Shop") (1958) as Detective Kramer (credited as Joseph Downing)

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Category:1975 deaths

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