Joe Pingue

Acting

Born May 3, 1972, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

Joe Pingue (born 3 May 1972, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian character actor, filmmaker, and voice artist with over 100 credits. He is best known as Captain McDowell in The Expanse (2015–2022) and for film roles in Pacific Rim (2013), Room (2015), Miss Sloane (2016), and The Apprentice (2024). He has worked with directors including David Cronenberg, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Guillermo del Toro. In voice work, he is known as Barney in PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021) and Johnny in The Nut Job (2014).

Filmography

• Memory of a Killer — Building Superintendent
• 2026Unholy Night — Nazario
• 2025Star Trek: Section 31 — Dada Noe
• 2025The Killer Is Calling — Ed
• Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent — Felix
• 2024The Apprentice — Tony Salerno
• 2024The Burning Season — Tom
• Tracker — Barry
• Alert: Missing Persons Unit — Renwick
• 2023Thomas & Friends: The Great Bubbly Build — Whiff (Voice)
• Daniel Spellbound — Additional Voices (voice)
• 2022See for Me — Dave
• 2022The Switch — John
• 2021PAW Patrol: The Movie — Barney (Voice)
• Station Eleven — Dieter
• The Expanse: One Ship — Captain McDowell
• Transplant — Andy
• Stumptown — Whale
• 2018Anon — Lester Goodman
• 2018Fahrenheit 451 — Wayne Anderson
• Titans — Jacob
• Godless — Alonzo Bunker
• Save Me — Jojo
• 2017The Glass Castle — Stanley
• 2016An American Dream: The Education of William Bowman — Mr. Breeder
• 2016Miss Sloane — Little Sam
• 2015Room — Officer Grabowski
• The Expanse — Captain McDowell
• 19-2 — Charlie Figo
• 2014Maps to the Stars — Arnold
• 2014One Christmas Eve — Gorik
• 2014Pompeii — Graecus
• 2014The Nut Job — Johnny (voice)
• The Strain — Caldwell
• Orphan Black — Detective Troy Collier
• 2013Pacific Rim — Captain Merrit
• 2013The Art of the Steal — Carmen
• 2013The Twelve Trees of Christmas — Mack
• 2012Antiviral — Arvid
• 2012Bloodwork — Aaron
• 2012Still Mine — Derek
• Alphas — Quinn
• 2011Dream House — Martin
• 2011Drive — Assistant Director #1
• Suits — Ackerman
• 2010Casino Jack — Little Tony
• 2010Devil — Business Bureau Clerk
• Lost Girl — Salvatore Ferraro
• 2010Repo Men — Ray
• 2010The Book of Eli — Hoyt
• 2010The Town Christmas Forgot — Jeremiah Bee
• Spliced — Entrée (voice)
• 2009Suck
• 2008Blindness — Taxi Driver
• 2008Jack and Jill vs. The World — Casting Director
• Testees — Nugget
• 2007A Cure For Terminal Loneliness — Joseph Strobe
• Across the River to Motor City
• 2006A Lobster Tale — Bubba Jenkins
• 2006Citizen Duane — Vince Vaserelli
• 2006Drive Time Murders — Gus Papadis
• 2006Homie Spumoni — Paulie (uncredited)
• Louie and the Crew — Additional voices
• Rent-a-Goalie — Joey Almost
• The State Within — Al Rivero
• The Very Good Adventures of Yam Roll in Happy Kingdom — Tamago
• 2005Crazy for Christmas — Hugo
• 2005Mee-Shee: The Water Giant — Jim Neilds
• 2004Direct Action — US Attourney
• 2004Highwaymen — Long Hair Mechanic
• Il Duce Canadese — Mommo
• This Is Wonderland — Mr. Litvack
• 2003Cybermutt — Max
• 2003Ice Bound — Pixal Pete
• 2003Owning Mahowny — Plain Clothes Cop
• 2003Thoughtcrimes — Costas
• 2002Guilty Hearts — Henry
• 2002The Rats — Karl
• A Nero Wolfe Mystery — Archie 2
• Degrassi — Tony
• 2001Harvard Man — Joe
• 2001Knockaround Guys — Klanderud
• 2001The Big Heist — Marty Krugman
• Tracker — Saahm
• 2000Bait — Cop
• 2000Phantom of the Megaplex — Merle
• 2000The Thin Blue Lie — Detective Regossi
• 1999Pushing Tin — Mark
• 1999The Boondock Saints — Geno
• Twice in a Lifetime — Frank
• 1998Mr. Headmistress — Granger
• Twitch City — Italian Man, Greg
• 1997Balls Up — Anatoli
• 1997Color of Justice — Prison Guard #1
• 1997The Defenders: Payback — Mitchell
• 1997The Don's Analyst — Hood #1
• The Wonderful World of Disney — Granger
• FX: The Series — Tito, Guard #1
• 1996Gotti — Second Man
• 1996Hidden in America — Dispatcher
• 1996Maximum Risk — Bohemia Doorman
• Once a Thief
• 1996Shadow Zone: The Undead Express — Transit Cop
• 1995Visitors of the Night — Customer
• Due South — Sandor, Jimmy Roastbeef