Joe Downing

Joe Downing

출생 : 1903-06-26, New York City, New York, USA

사망 : 1975-10-16

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Joe Downing

참여 작품

Blood
The New Realton
A mysterious family moves into their new home, but their secrets are far more sinister than anyone could imagine.
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Eddie 'Cockeye' Cook
A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up with a "code of silence" amongst all potential witnesses.
Fighting Trouble
Hal Lomax
An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.
Lucky Jordan
Harrison
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
You Can't Escape Forever
Varney (uncredited)
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.
The Big Shot
Frenchy
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.
Larceny, Inc.
Smitty
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...
Johnny Eager
Ryan (as Joseph Downing)
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Unholy Partners
Jerry
A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.
Belle Starr
Jim Cole
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr (Scott) Belle Shirley (Tierney) vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation amongst the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.
Strange Alibi
Benny McKaye
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
San Francisco Docks
Cassidy
Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, and he beats up Cassidy, a crooked politician who has been annoying her. Cassidy is murdered that night and Johnny is jailed for the crime. Kitty, her father Andy Tracy, and waterfront-priest Father Cameron believe Johnny is innocent but all evidence points to his guilt.
The Secret Seven
Lou Boyd
Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a series of murders.
Castle on the Hudson
Gangster in Car (uncredited)
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!
'Doc' Kendrick - Bank Robber
In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads for her elopement. The two begin traveling together and get further mixed up with a fleeing bank robber, a crazy tourist camp, and other troubles. Songs include: "Oh Johnny, How You Can Love," "Maybe I Like What You Like," "Swing Chariot Swing," and "Make Up Your Mind."
Invisible Stripes
Johnny
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
Missing Evidence
Marty Peters
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty.
어나더 틴 맨
Hoodlum (uncredited)
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Smashing the Money Ring
Dice Mathews
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
Each Dawn I Die
Limpy Julien
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
The Forgotten Woman
Johnny Bradshaw
A beautiful woman is forced to help gangsters in a robbery, and is arrested as an accessory.
Torchy Runs for Mayor
Spuds O'Brien
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
You Can't Get Away with Murder
Smitty
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.
North of Shanghai
Chandler
In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over and decide to team up. They are further assisted by a Chinese cameraman. The three of them manage to expose of spy ring operating out of the Shanghai office of the woman's newspaper.
더럽혀진 얼굴의 천사
Steve
두 절친한 친구가 성장하여 하나는 유명한 갱이, 하나는 신부가 되는데 신부는 뒷골목의 불량 청소년들을 선도하려고 애쓰지만 갱이 된 친구를 소년들이 우상으로 생각하고 그를 따르기 때문에 번번이 실패한다. 그러다가 갱 친구는 체포되어 사형선고를 받게 된다. 신부는 그를 찾아가서 부탁한다. 아이들이 너를 우상으로 받드는 이상에는 그애들도 자라서 너처럼 될것이라고. 그러니 죽을때 제발 비겁하게 살려달라고 애원하며 죽어달라고 부탁한다. 친구는 자기는 그렇게 죽을 수 없다며 거절한다. 사형집행의 날. 가스실에 들어간 그는 마침내 제발 살려달라고 울부짖는다. 그는 친구의 마지막 부탁을 들어준 것이다. 그 사실이 보도되자 자신들의 영웅이 비겁하게 죽어갔다는 것을 안 소년들은 마침내 신부의 품으로 돌아온다. 1930년대에 워너 브라더스가 제작한 여러 갱스터/범죄 멜로드라마를 대표하는 영화들 중 하나인 이 영화는 제임스 캐그니와 팻 오브라이언이 앙상블을 이뤄 연기한 수많은 영화들 중 두 번째에 해당하는 영화이다. 이 영화를 통해 캐그니는 처음으로 아카데미 남우주연상에 지명되었으며, 그 외에도 이 영화는 최우수 감독상(마이클 커티즈), 최우수 각본상(롤랜드 브라운) 등에 노미네이트되었다.
The Night Hawk
Lefty
Gangster Charlie McCormick despairs as his young brother Bobby lays near death and vows to break the quarantine of the ocean liner Pacific Queen in order to retrieve the iron lung Bobby needs. Meanwhile, newspaper editor Lonigan searches for reporter Slim Torrence, because Slim is friends with Tom Niles, the customs officer on the verge of cracking a whiskey smuggling case. Lonigan is about to send another reporter to cover the story when Della Parrish, the publisher's daughter, assures him that she can locate Slim. With the help of Slim's young photographer, Willie Sing, Della finds Slim in a waterfront dive, and Willie and Slim sneak aboard the Pacific Queen to find Niles. Niles hints that McCormick is the head of the smuggling ring and promises Slim an exclusive when he breaks the story the next day.
Racket Busters
Joe Pender
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
Danger on the Air
Joe Carney
Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.
The Devil's Party
Frank Diamond
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
The Lady in the Morgue
Steve Collins
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
Wide Open Faces
Stretch
A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.
A Slight Case of Murder
Innocence
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
Borrowing Trouble
Charlie
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
Dr. Socrates
Cinq Laval
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
The Case of the Lucky Legs
George Sanborne (as Joseph Downing)
A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.