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The Ring and the Belle (1941)
Character: Barber Shop Assistant
Andy becomes the manager of a prizefighter. The problem is, the figher has just skipped town.
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Low Down Dog (1944)
Character: N/A
A Soundie featuring Meade (Lux) Lewis and Dudley Dickerson [with Avanelle Harris, Leonald Bluett].
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The Outskirts of Town (1942)
Character: Husband
After a presumably hard day at work, Dudley Dickerson plunks down at the kitchen table and sings a dry lament about his wife’s roving eye. Meanwhile, his aforementioned better half, Theresa Harris, flirts hilariously with a series of deliverymen.
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Social Sea Lions (1940)
Character: Henry
A "Pete Smith Specialty". Three sea lions gatecrash the kitchen of a beach house, steal some goodies, then go on to cause chaos at the party.
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Scheming Schemers (1956)
Character: Cook (archive footage)
The stooges are three incompetent plumbers who foul up the plumbing in a fancy mansion where a society party is going on. They manage to catch a couple of thieves masquerading as guests before the whole party degenerates into a pie fight.
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Wide Open Faces (1938)
Character: Shoe Shine Man
A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.
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Meet Mr. Mischief (1947)
Character: Cyril - Radio Station Janitor
Harry, who is known as a practical joker, finds himself being chased by a headhunter, and doesn't know if it's a joke or not.
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Meet Mr. Mischief (1947)
Character: Jason Perkins
Harry, who is known as a practical joker, finds himself being chased by a headhunter, and doesn't know if it's a joke or not.
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Hook a Crook (1955)
Character: Janitor (uncredited)
Joe Besser and Jim Hawthorne are detectives trying to recover stolen jewels. They see a necklace on a furry arm, and deduce that a man wearing a fur coat was the thief. They, instead, encounter a gorilla.
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Pardon My Terror (1946)
Character: Janitor (uncredited)
Private detectives Gus and Dick take a murder case where nearly everyone is trying to kill them.
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One Shivery Night (1950)
Character: Julius
Hugh and his partner, Julius are assigned to demolish a old mansion that's rumored to have a fortune hidden inside somewhere. When they arrive, they meet two fortune hunters who try to scare Hugh and Julius away.
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Groom and Bored (1942)
Character: Waiter Delivering Dinner
Johnny tries to keep his marriage a secret from his boss, who feels that matrimony interferes with business.
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Nervous Shakedown (1947)
Character: N/A
Hugh and Dudley stay at Dr. Flint's Sanitarium, unaware that two escaped convicts are using the place for a hideout.
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Microspook (1949)
Character: N/A
As a publicity gimmick, Harry has to announce his radio show from a real haunted house.
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The Sickle or the Cross (1949)
Character: Horatio
Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Reds imprison him and send in his place a spy who is his double, but who is instructed to come out for Communism. The spy is accepted in Burnside's home town, and he reports to local Communist headquarters, where James John, prominent local businessman but in reality a Red agent, has instructions to assist him in all details of his mission. He does a series of personal appearances and radio interviews and talk shows, using an anti-Communist approach.
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You're Next! (1940)
Character: Sam
Two goofball private detectives are hired to find a millionaire who has been kidnapped by a mad scientist.
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Spy Smasher Returns (1966)
Character: Train Porter (uncredited)
Edited version of the 1942 Republic serial "Spy Smasher," cut down to one hour and sold for TV release in 1966 in a syndication package with other truncated Republic serials.
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Knock on Any Door (1949)
Character: Bootblack (uncredited)
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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It's a Great Feeling (1949)
Character: Porter (uncredited)
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
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Some Like It Hot (1939)
Character: Sam
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game.
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Gentleman Jim (1942)
Character: Bellboy (uncredited)
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
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They Stooge to Conga (1943)
Character: Wilbur - the Cook (uncredited)
The Stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control.
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Booty and the Beast (1953)
Character: Porter (uncredited)
The stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a safe in what they think is the man's house. Actually the man is a crook and the boys were unwitting accomplices to a robbery. Once they realize what's happened, the stooges go after the bad guy and who's left on the train to Los Vegas. The boys trap the villain and recover the booty.
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The Alligator People (1959)
Character: Porter
Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely mansion in a remote section of swampland tenanted by snakes, alligators, a drunken one-armed lout, a mysterious doctor, and a cold-hearted elderly woman who lives alone in a brooding manse.
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Some More of Samoa (1941)
Character: Native Cook (uncredited)
The Stooges are tree surgeons who are enlisted by a rich old man to find a mate for his rare puckerless persimmon tree. The boys sail to the tropical island of Rhum-Boogie to find the tree. When they arrive they are captured by the natives and will be eaten unless Curly marries the Chief's ugly daughter. The boys escape with the tree and, after a confrontation with an alligator, sail off with their prize.
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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1940)
Character: Waiter
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.
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Who Done It? (1949)
Character: Janitor
The stooges are private detectives looking for a missing millionaire. They wander around the millionaire's spooky mansion confronting various crooks and a dangerous dame. The stooges vanquish the crooks (Shemp uses his "trusty shovel") and find the missing man.
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Dangerous Money (1946)
Character: Big Ben
A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life.
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Sock-a-Bye Baby (1942)
Character: Roadside Worker (uncredited)
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 flee into the country with the cops (one of them is the baby's father) pursuing them by motorcycle. It all ends happily with the baby reunited with its parents and the stooges running off disguised as bushes.
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The Opposite Sex (1956)
Character: Pullman Porter (uncredited)
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back. The Opposite Sex is a remake of the 1939 comedy The Women.
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From Nurse to Worse (1940)
Character: Crematorium Orderly (uncredited)
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 and take him to the insurance doctor and have him act like a dog. Unfortunately, the insurance doctor wants to perform a brain operation (Cerebrum decapitation). The boys try to escape by hiding in the dog catchers wagon, but are caught and taken to the hospital. They escape again, this time by rigging a sheet to a gurney and sailing down the street, where they run into Jerry and knock him into wet cement.
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A Gem of a Jam (1943)
Character: Watchman
The stooges are janitors working in the offices of Doctors Harts, Burns and Belcher. Some crooks arrive seeking medical attention after their boss has been wounded in a shoot out with the cops. Mistaken for doctors, the boys are forced to operate on the wounded crook, but instead they accidentally dump him out the window into a passing police car. The rest of the gang chases them into a store room filled with dummies where the cops finally catch the bad guys.
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Kid Dynamite (1943)
Character: Jackson
The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend Danny Lyons takes his place and wins the fight, only to have Mugs believe that Danny was responsible for his kidnapping.
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Hold That Lion! (1947)
Character: Pullman Porter
The stooges are scammed out of their inheritance by Icabob Slipp, a crooked lawyer. The boys follow Slipp onto a passenger train and corner him, but not before they accidentally let a lion loose on the train. The only Stooges SHORT where Moe, Curly and Shemp appear together.
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Love Thy Neighbor (1940)
Character: Member at Ball
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
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Comet Over Broadway (1938)
Character: Train Porter (uncredited)
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
Character: Joe (uncredited)
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
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Peggy (1950)
Character: Redcap
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy but she's smitten with a famous football star so she tries to redirect his interest to Susan.
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In This Our Life (1942)
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
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The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
Character: Porter at Train Station (uncredited)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
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It Had to Be You (1947)
Character: Train Porter (uncredited)
A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
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The Green Pastures (1936)
Character: Ham
God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
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Without Reservations (1946)
Character: Redcap (uncredited)
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
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Shall We Dance (1937)
Character: Engine Room Singer (uncredited)
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
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Criminals Within (1941)
Character: Sam Dillingham
A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.
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Niagara Falls (1941)
Character: Hotel Janitor (uncredited)
The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
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Spooky Hooky (1936)
Character: Sam, the Janitor
The gang puts a phony absent note on their teacher's desk so they can go to the circus, then have to get it back when they find out that the class was going on a field trip to the circus anyway.
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A Plumbing We Will Go (1940)
Character: The Cook
To escape the police, the stooges pose as plumbers and are hired to fix a leak in a fancy mansion, but they wind up crossing the electrical system with the plumbing and generally ruin the place.
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The Sport Parade (1932)
Character: Night Club Dancer (uncredited)
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
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Here Comes Trouble (1948)
Character: Elevator Operator (uncredited)
A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.
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Spy Smasher (1942)
Character: Train Porter (uncredited)
Prior to the United States' involvement in World War II, the masked vigilante Spy Smasher fights Nazi agents operating within the US, led by the treacherous sabotage leader codenamed The Mask.
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Borrowed Hero (1941)
Character: Laundryman (uncredited)
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
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City for Conquest (1940)
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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At the Circus (1939)
Character: Singer / Dancer - 'Swingali' (uncredited)
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to find the thief and get the money back.
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His Wedding Scare (1943)
Character: Pullman Train Porter
El and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her former husbands.
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Murder by Invitation (1941)
Character: Bob's Servant (Uncredited)
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.
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The Adventurous Blonde (1937)
Character: Porter (uncredited)
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
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All-American Co-Ed (1941)
Character: Dancing Porter
Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for their comedy drag revue, staying undercover as a woman at an all-girls' school wasn't part of the rehearsal!
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Kentucky (1938)
Character: Chauffeur
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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His Bridal Fright (1940)
Character: Sam
Charley writes to girls all over the world in order to get foreign postage stamps for his collection--but winds up with a passel of girls who think he's their fiance.
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Vagabond Loafers (1949)
Character: The Cook
The stooges are the "Day and Night" plumbers. Called out to a fancy mansion where a society party is going on, they cross the electrical and water systems and generally ruin the place. Despite their incompetent plumbing, they save the day by recovering a painting stolen by a pair of thieves masquerading as party guests.
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Obliging Young Lady (1942)
Character: Dining Car Waiter (uncredited)
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
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