The Three Stooges filmography


This is a complete list of short subjects and feature films that featured The Three Stooges released between [|1930] and [|1970].
Moe, Larry and Curly left Healy in 1934 and moved to Columbia Pictures to begin their successful series of 190 shorts, with their contract extended each year until the final one expired on December 31, [|1957]. The final 8 of the 16 shorts with Joe Besser were released afterwards over the next 1⅓ years. It is for these 190 short films, which have appeared on television in steady rotation since [|1958], that the Stooges are best known. These films appear on this list in numbered format. The Stooges would continue afterwards with Moe, Larry, and Joe DeRita, and make several full-length feature films between [|1959] and 1970.

Key

AAN = Nominated for an Academy Award


= utilized footage from previous Stooge films


† = currently in public domain


^ = filmed after Curly Howard's initial stroke


^^ = filmed after Shemp Howard's death


§ = denotes a cameo appearance or supporting role


~ = originally intended to be a television pilot


т = television series
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1930 - 1933 - 1934 - [|1935] - [|1936] - [|1937] - [|1938] - [|1939]

[|1940] - [|1941] - [|1942] - [|1943] - [|1944] - [|1945] - [|1946] - [|1947] - [|1948] - [|1949]

[|1950] - [|1951] - [|1952] - [|1953] - [|1954] - [|1955] - [|1956] - 1957 - 1958 - 1959

[|1960] - [|1961] - [|1962] - [|1963] - [|1965] - [|1968]

1970

Ted Healy and His Stooges

Moe, Larry and Shemp

1930">1930 in film">1930

1933">1933 in film">1933

1933">1933 in film">1933

1947">1947 in film">1947

1957">1957 in film">1957

All 190 Columbia short films were released in the DVD series The Three Stooges Collection. The series includes seven 2-disc volumes and one 3-disc volume. Volume Seven features 3D glasses for the shorts Spooks! and Pardon My Backfire.

The Three Stooges: Larry, Moe and Curly Joe

1959">1959 in film">1959

Joe Besser never appeared with the Stooges in a feature film.
Three feature-length Columbia releases were actually packages of older Columbia shorts. Columbia Laff Hour was a random assortment that included the Stooges among other Columbia comedians like Andy Clyde, Hugh Herbert, and Vera Vague; the content and length varied from one theater to the next. Three Stooges Fun-o-Rama was an all-Stooges show capitalizing on their TV fame, again with shorts chosen at random for individual theaters. The Three Stooges Follies was similar to Laff Hour, with a trio of Stooge comedies augmented by Buster Keaton and Vera Vague shorts, a Batman serial chapter, and a Kate Smith musical.