A Partial Filmography of Joe

What is it about the name "Joe"? Not quite as generic as "John" or "Bob", but definitely the name of a good-natured, unassuming, regular guy? We all love Joe Blow, Joe Sixpack, GI Joe, Smokin' Joe, Shoeless Joe, Joe Doakes, - maybe even Joe Bob Briggs and Joe Isuzu. And remember all those ghoulish articles in Reader's Digest about "I am Joe's Liver" and his other parts? So when casting about for a nonglamorous but not completely bland name for Everyman, Hollywood knows how to appeal to the average Joe.

• The Adventures of Joe Dirt (David Spade, Gary Busey, Kid Rock);
• Angry Joe Bass;
• The Ballad of Little Jo (Suzy Amis);
• A Bullet for Joey (Edward G Robinson);
• Beautiful Joe (with Sharon Stone);
• Calypso Joe (Angie Dickinson)
• Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (Kiefer Sutherland);
• Crazy Joe (Peter Boyle);
• Crime Against Joe (Julie London);
• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Alan Bates);
• Dreaming of Joseph Lees (Samantha Morton);
• The Fabulous Joe (Harve Foster);
• A Family for Joe
• Gentleman Joe Palooka;
• A Girl for Joe (William Holden);
• A Guy Named Joe (Spencer Tracy);
  (which contains no character named Joe!)
  ((and which was remade by Steven Spielberg as "Always".))
• Holy Joe (John Ritter);
• Jilting Joe;
• Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling (Richard Pryor);
• Joe; (inspired by the hard hats who beat up hippies for Nixon; Peter Boyle regretted starring);
• Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President, (Ann Sothern);
• Joe and Max (Leonard Roberts);
• Joe Butterfly (Audie Murphy, Burgess Meredith);
• Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs and Englishmen (Leon Russell);
• Joe Dakota (Claude Akins);
• Joe Dancer;
• Joe Gould's Secret (Stanley Tucci and Ian Holm);
• Joe Hill (Thommy Berggren);
• Joe Kidd (a staggeringly dull movie with Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall);
• The Joe Louis Story, (Coley Wallace);
• Joe Macbeth, (Paul Douglas);
• Joe Palooka, Champ;
• Joe Panther, (Ricardo Montalban);
• Joe Smith, American, (Robert Young);
• Joe Somebody (Tim Allen);
• Joe the King (Val Kilmer);
• Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way;
• Joe vs the Volcano (Tom Hanks and his brain cloud);
  (I went to see this with a friend, and we were both too polite to walk out, but...);
• Joe's Apartment; (Don Ho);
• Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop - We Cut Heads;
• Joe's So Mean to Josephine;
• Joey (Linda Thorson);
• Joey Boy;
• Joey Breaker Gina Gershon);
• Lemonade Joe (Carla Fiala);
• Marjoe (Marjoe Gortner);
• Meet Joe Black; (because I would not stop for death, death dragged me to this movie; same thing);
• Mighty Joe Young; (not only a rip-off of King Kong, but it's being remade! How soon before Gus Van Sant will film it a third time?);
• My Name is Joe; (Peter Mullan)
• Navajo Joe (Burt Reynolds)
• Ode to Billy Joe, (Robby Benson; inspired by Bobby Gentry's one hit, and dedicated to answering the question of what the hell Billy Joe McAllister dropped off the Tallahatchee bridge, pass the black-eyed peas.);
• Pal Joey (Rita Hayworth);
• Polo Joe (Joe E Brown);
• The Return of Joe Forrester
• Ruby Jean and Joe, (Tom Selleck; a rodeo cowboy's career is "on the wane" until he picks up a teenage hitchhiker...a strategy that didn't work so well for Hugh Grant);
• The Seduction of Joe Tynan; (Alan Alda and Meryl Streep);
• Stay Away Joe (Elvis Presley);
• The Story of GI Joe (Burgess Meredith);
• Tailgunner Joe; (Peter Boyle);
• Tokyo Joe (Humphrey Bogart);
• Uncle Joe Shannon (Burt Young);