Complete Filmography

Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
2024
Director
Following their initial pairing in early 1927, Laurel and Hardy ended their first year on top. Their success moving into 1928 galvanized the efforts o...

W.C. Fields: 6 Short Films
2000
Director
A Criterion compilation of "six gems that feature the comic genius at his peak: The Golf Specialist, Pool Sharks (silent), The Pharmacist, The Fatal G...

Stop! Look! and Laugh!
1960
Writer
Moe, Larry and Curly appear in short subjects linked by ventriloquist Paul Winchell and his dummies.

Husbands Beware
1956
Story
To inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry before six o'clock, but no girl will accept his proposal. Finally one of his repulsive students a...

Wham-Bam-Slam!
1955
Writer
Shemp is a sick man with a bad case of nerves. The stooge's friend Claude, a self-taught healer, tries to cure Shemp with various home- made remedies....

Pals and Gals
1954
Story
The stooges go out west for Shemp's health. The boys soon run afoul of a local villain who is forcing pretty Nell to marry him. The bad guy has Nell's...

Goof on the Roof
1953
Writer
The Stooges are entrusted with taking care of their friend's house while he goes off to get married.

Up in Daisy's Penthouse
1953
Story
The Stooges are sent by their mother to stop their rich father's plan to remarry. Shemp plays dual role as Shemp and Father.

Knights of the Bath
1951
Writer
Short film cobbled from the Abbott & Costello feature In Society for the home movie market.

Three Hams on Rye
1950
Writer
The stooges are stage hands who also have small parts in a big play. They quickly get on the bad side of the producer. First they fail to prevent a fa...

Hugs and Mugs
1950
Writer
The stooges run a furniture store and come into possession of a stolen pearl necklace. Three crooked dames convince the boys that the necklace is thei...

Tall, Dark and Gruesome
1948
Screenplay, Story
A crate containing a live gorilla is delivered to a mountain cabin Hugh has rented.

Pardon My Clutch
1948
Writer
The stooge's friend Claude sells them his old lemon of a car so they can take Shemp, who is sick with a toothache, camping. The car won't work and the...

Wedlock Deadlock
1947
Story
Newlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house before Betty's mother (Esther Howard), aunt (Patsy Moran...

Should Husbands Marry?
1947
Story, Screenplay
Hugh's loudmouth pal crashes a dinner party Hugh is throwing for his boss.

Brideless Groom
1947
Screenplay
Shemp has to get married within seven hours in order to inherit $500,000. Now that's incentive! The bumbling threesome set to work right away with hil...

Rolling Down to Reno
1947
Story
Harry von Zell, a commentator on a radio show, unknowingly angers a wanted gangster with his comments on the air.

Out West
1947
Writer
The stooges go out west for Shemp's health and get mixed up with some bad guys. The villains have locked up the Arizona Kid and their leader plans to ...

Fright Night
1947
Writer
The Stooges are managers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they bet their bankroll on his next fight.
Andy Plays Hookey
1946
Writer
Andy makes elaborate plans to attend a prizefight, and they all backfire.

Three Little Pirates
1946
Writer
The stooges are castaways from a garbage scow who land on Dead Man's Island where everyone is living in olden times. To escape from the governor, they...

Uncivil War Birds
1946
Writer
The stooges are civil war soldiers who are constantly changing uniforms to avoid the opposing armies. Eventually they decide to be loyal to the south,...

The Naughty Nineties
1945
Writer
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gamblin...

Her Lucky Night
1945
Writer
In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.

Under Western Skies
1945
Screenplay
An Arizona teacher (Noah Beery Jr.) saves a vaudeville star (Martha O'Driscoll) and her troupe from a bandit (Leo Carrillo).

She Gets Her Man
1945
Screenplay
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.

South of Dixie
1944
Screenplay
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him...

The Yoke's on Me
1944
Writer
The Stooges become farmers as a last resort when every branch of the armed services turns them down. Strong anti-Japanese content during World War II ...

Twilight on the Prairie
1944
Screenplay
In this musical western, a cowboy band is offered the chance to appear in a Hollywood movie and begins the journey to the West Coast. Unfortunately, t...

Moon Over Las Vegas
1944
Writer
A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.

Week-End Pass
1944
Screenplay
A run-away socialite "Babs" Bradley (Martha O'Driscoll), using an alias, wants to join the WACs, finds romance with a shipyard worker, Johnny Adams (N...
Swingtime Johnny
1944
Screenplay
The Andrews Sisters take a hiatus from show business to aid the war effort. They take on jobs at a pipe-organ plant now making artillery shells. But t...

Dizzy Pilots
1943
Story, Screenplay
The Three Stooges, as the Wrong Brothers, aid the war effort by inventing a new plane in this below-average two-reel comedy. Actually, they are attemp...

Pitchin' in the Kitchen
1943
Screenplay, Story
While his wife works at a defense plant, Hugh stays home and tries to do the housework.

So's Your Uncle
1943
Writer
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not appr...

I Can Hardly Wait
1943
Writer
The stooges are defense workers who have trouble getting to sleep when Curly gets a toothache. Moe and Larry try various ways to remove the offending ...

Honeymoon Lodge
1943
Screenplay
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-d...

Spook Louder
1943
Writer
The stooges are door-to-door salesman peddling a weight reducing machine, until they come to the house of an eccentric inventor, where they are mistak...

A Blitz on the Fritz
1943
Story
Harry is a patriotic citizen who starts a scrap drive but he soon encounters a group of Nazi spies and their hideout.
The Great Glover
1942
Writer
Terry (Henry) and his friends pitch in to help the Taylor College scrap drive.

Sock-a-Bye Baby
1942
Writer
The stooges mistakenly kidnap a baby they find on their doorstep. When the cops and the baby's mother come looking for the baby, the boys panic and fl...

Three Smart Saps
1942
Writer
The stooges are engaged to the three daughters of a prison warden. When they learn that some crooks have taken over the prison and their prospective f...

Loco Boy Makes Good
1942
Writer
After being thrown out of their apartment, the Stooges try a scam to get some money: find a hotel, slip on a cake of soap, and sue the owners to get a...

She's Oil Mine
1941
Writer
Buster fights a duel over a girl.

In the Sweet Pie and Pie
1941
Writer
The Stooges are convicts about to be executed for some murders they didn't commit.

General Nuisance
1941
Screenplay
A millionaire falls for an army nurse, who tells him she likes men in uniform. So he enlists at Camp Cluster. She still has no time for him, so he fig...
Black Eyes and Blues
1941
Screenplay
Roscoe's wife decides to divorce him and heads for Reno.

So Long Mr. Chumps
1941
Writer
The stooges are street cleaners who find some valuable bonds and return them to their owner. The man is so grateful that he offers them a big reward i...

The Spook Speaks
1940
Writer
A magician hires Buster as a housekeeper while he's away.

Pleased to Mitt You
1940
Screenplay
Terry Kelly is leaving for college, and Ma Kelly and Uncle Pat invite his friends and sweetheart Kitty to the house for a going-away party. The bigger...

From Nurse to Worse
1940
Screenplay
The stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put Curly on a leash...

The Taming of the Snood
1940
Writer
A jewel thief uses Buster as an unsuspecting dupe.

Nutty But Nice
1940
Writer
The stooges are singing comedic waiters, enlisted by two doctors to try and cheer up a depressed little girl, whose banker-father has gone missing wit...

Boobs in the Woods
1940
Writer
Andy's annoying brother-in-law Gus gets him fired from his job, and then tag-a-longs on a vacation with Andy and his wife.

Pardon My Berth Marks
1940
Story, Screenplay
Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife.

Rockin' Thru the Rockies
1940
Writer
The stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show west. When hostile Indians run the horses run off they are stranded. They must contend with a ...
Nothing But Pleasure
1940
Writer
To save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home.

You Nazty Spy!
1940
Story, Screenplay
In this satire of the Nazis the Stooges are wallpaper hangers in the country of Moronica. When evil cabinet ministers overthrow the King, they decide ...

Three Sappy People
1939
Screenplay
The stooges are phone repairmen who are mistaken for the psychiatrists in whose office they are working. A rich man hires them to treat his impetuous ...

Mooching Through Georgia
1939
Screenplay
Man relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War.

Pest from the West
1939
Writer
A millionaire vacationing in Mexico falls for a local girl and sets out to win her.

Professor Beware
1938
Writer
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the po...

Cash and Carry
1937
Writer
The Stooges find a crippled boy and his sister living in their dumpyard shack. To raise money to pay for the little boys operation they buy a phony tr...

3 Dumb Clucks
1937
Writer
The stooges escape from jail when they learn their father, who has just become rich, is planning to leave their mother and marry a young girl. Curly i...

Grips, Grunts and Groans
1937
Screenplay
The Stooges become trainers of Bustoff, a champion wrestler. The big boss has a lot of money bet on Bustoff and orders the boys to take good care of h...

Whoops, I'm an Indian!
1936
Screenplay
Set in the Old West, the stooges are crooked gamblers swindling the residents of a frontier town. They are discovered and must escape into the woods. ...

Half Shot Shooters
1936
Writer
The Stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they wind up in the army...

Three Little Beers
1935
Writer
The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to get some practice. T...

Man on the Flying Trapeze
1935
Director
Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.

Spring Tonic
1935
Director
Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.

Horses' Collars
1935
Director
The Stooges are private detectives in the Old West trying to help a girl recover an IOU from a bad guy. Their attempts to steal the IOU from the villa...

The Fatal Glass of Beer
1933
Director
The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."

Too Many Highballs
1933
Director
Harold Hobbs doesn't much like that his lazy, sponging and unemployed brother-in-law Claude and his mother-in-law live with him and his wife, Hortense...

Movie Crazy
1932
Director, Continuity
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.

Everything’s Rosie
1931
Director
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.

Feet First
1930
Story, Director
An ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding h...

Welcome Danger
1929
Director, Story
A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.

The Cameraman
1928
Story
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

The Finishing Touch
1928
Director
Stan and Ollie are hired to build a house in just one day. When they are done, a bird lands on the house and it collapses. Naturally, the owner wants ...

Leave 'Em Laughing
1928
Director
Stan complains of a toothache and he and Ollie visit the dentist. Ollie gets his teeth pulled by mistake. Under the influence of laughing gas, they le...

Should Tall Men Marry?
1928
Director
This western comedy is about rancher Finlayson's beautiful daughter, Martha Sleeper, who refuses to marry the bad guy and how Jimmy and dimwitted cowh...

A Perfect Gentleman
1928
Director
Monty Banks gets involved in tracking down a stolen fortune, his adventures culminating in a whirlwind, gag-filled climax at sea.

The Battle of the Century
1927
Director
Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.

Putting Pants on Philip
1927
Director
Pompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder greets his nephew from Scotland who arrives in kilts. He is immediately taken to a tailor for a pair of proper pants...
Love 'em and Feed 'em
1927
Director
A pair of gold prospectors (Max Davidson, Oliver Hardy) try to make their way in the big city. *Only reconstructed fragments exists.

Call of the Cuckoo
1927
Director
Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.

Horse Shoes
1927
Director
A Monty Banks comedy that includes the 'Undressing in the Upper Berth' routine

The General
1926
Director, Screenplay
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached box...

For Heaven's Sake
1926
Writer
An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.

Keep Smiling
1925
Writer
The Boy, involved in a maritime disaster as a child, suffers from hydrophobia. He invents a life preserver that automatically inflates when it hits th...

Remember When?
1925
Writer
Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearded lady in a circus.

Seven Chances
1925
Screenplay
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million fro...

Bashful Jim
1925
Writer
Shy Ralph Graves is inspired by a movie hero to go after the girl he loves (Alice Day). A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy short.

The Navigator
1924
Writer
The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Betsy O'Brien. Although Betsy turns Rollo down, he st...

Sherlock Jr.
1924
Screenplay
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's p...

Our Hospitality
1923
Story
A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

Three Ages
1923
Writer
The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry, and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is ...