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Defective Detectives (1944)
Character: Photographer
El and Harry are two office cleaners turned detectives who are assigned to chase a gangster, but they end up catching the husband and wife they are supposed to protect from him.
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Harmon of Michigan (1941)
Character: Game Spectator Razzing Harmon
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
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Nothing But Pleasure (1940)
Character: Gangster at Cozy Auto Court
To save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home.
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Pardon My Berth Marks (1940)
Character: Train Passenger
Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife.
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She's Oil Mine (1941)
Character: Clementi, Elsie's suitor; also voice of radio announcer
Buster fights a duel over a girl.
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New News (1937)
Character: Party Guest
Aa Columbia 2-reel comedy starring Tom Kennedy and Monty Collins in NEW NEWS (1937). Fans of the 3 Stooges will recognize the exact same plot and situations from their short CRASH GOES THE HASH (1944). Yes, this version came out BEFORE the Stooges version...so anyone that says these guys are ripping the Stooges off, they are wrong! Columbia made 526 slapstick two-reelers between 1933-1958...190 starred the Stooges...336 others starred a variety of comedians.
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Open Season for Saps (1944)
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
After his wife complains about the number of nights Woodcock (Shemp Howard) spends at the Hoot Owl Lodge, he takes her on a belated honeymoon. The first person they meet is lodge member Joe Wilson, who asks Woodcock to help him retrieve some ill-advised letters to lovely hotel guest Irene (Christine McIntyre). Woodcock soon finds himself caught between his jealous wife, and Irene's Latin-tempered fiancee Ricardo.
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Tireman, Spare My Tires (1942)
Character: Man at Road Block
Harry picks up a hitchhiker who turns out to be a runaway heiress. Under threat, Harry agrees to help her hide by pretending to be husband and wife.
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How Spry I Am (1942)
Character: Tax Collector (uncredited)
After an orphanage burns down, hotel keeper Andy is forced to provide the children with shelter.
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Sailor Maid (1937)
Character: N/A
An immigrant girl hears that if she marries an American citizen she won't be deported, so she goes looking for a husband.
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Across the Sierras (1941)
Character: Ed - Man with Noose
Elliott is hunted by Curtis who has spent six years behind bars because of his testimony. After knocking out several baddies and putting up with the zany antics of his sidekick Taylor, Elliott guns down his antagonist, but Luana Walters, the girl he almost marries, will not abide a gunslinger so Elliott is compelled to ride off alone into the sunset once more.
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The Son of Davy Crockett (1941)
Character: Election Official
Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy land baron, however, wants the property as his own.
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Canal Zone (1942)
Character: Recruit Hughes
A cocky pilot at a Panama Canal bomber station clashes with his trainer over recklessness and a woman. After causing a fatal crash while hungover, he seeks redemption when his rivals crash in the jungle.
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My Son Is a Criminal (1939)
Character: Walt Fraser
Former police chief Tim Halloran Sr. (Willard Robertson) fully expects his son Tim Jr. (Alan Baxter) to follow in his footsteps, flat though they may be. Instead, the younger Halloran opts for the easy road of crime.
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Girls of the Road (1940)
Character: Footsy
The story of an eclectic group of women - tramps, job-seekers and fugitives - either running from or toward something as they hitch-hike their way across the United States.
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Power of the Press (1943)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.
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Pest from the West (1939)
Character: Deck Hand (uncredited)
A millionaire vacationing in Mexico falls for a local girl and sets out to win her. This is a reworking of Keaton's 1936 feature The Invader (An Old Spanish Custom).
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Sagebrush Heroes (1945)
Character: Henchman Layton
This Columbia western starring Charles Starrett finds Steve Randall (Charles Starrett) forming a radio show with Jimmy Wakely (Jimmy Wakely) and his Saddle Pals, and are in town for a rodeo. Reporter Connie Pearson (Constance Worth) persuades them to visit Marty Jones (Elvin Fields), a fatherless boy, who has been sent to a boy's home after stealing Steve's wallet, ran by Tom Goodwin (Forrest Taylor.) Marty tells Steve that the home is a phony and is a front for cattle rustlers. Steve passes the information on to Connie, who doesn't believe him, so he and Jimmy wire the ranch for sound. They are caught and Goodwin turns them over to Sheriff Barnes (Edmund Cobb), and then plans to skip the country
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Texas Stagecoach (1940)
Character: Workman
The Kinkaids and the Harpers both run stage lines and are friendly competitors. Appleby is after the stage line and convinces the two owners to build a spur line to the same town. Then he has both projects sabotaged pitting the friends against each other and running them out of money.
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Vengeance of the West (1942)
Character: Henchman
Anita Morell arrives by stagecoach in a small California town to find her father murdered and his property being stolen by two unscrupulous townsmen. She receives help from a sympathetic lawman and from a masked rider known as "the Black Shadow" whose whip-scarred back is evidence of his own grudge against the townsmen.
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West of Abilene (1940)
Character: Poke
Frontiersman Tom Garfield and his pals endeavor to save their land from the clutches of slimy easterner Forsyth. The villain hires a bit of local muscle in the form of brutish Chris Matson, but he's no match for our hero.
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The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (1940)
Character: Police Guard
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.
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They Stooge to Conga (1943)
Character: Radio Quiz Announcer (voice) (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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Gambling with Souls (1936)
Character: Nick
Young girls are cheated into rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.
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The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
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Three Girls About Town (1941)
Character: Magician
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
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Lawless Plainsmen (1942)
Character: Cowhand Murph
In this western, a ranch foreman and the bosses son go to a saloon to slake their thirst and find themselves in the midst of a battle started by the feisty saloon owner's wicked ex-husband who loots the safe in the ensuing scuffle.
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Bullets for Bandits (1942)
Character: N/A
In a saloon shooting, a cowboy thinks he killed Prince Katey, a man he closely resembles. Cannonball arrives and thinking the cowboy to be Katey, gets him to return to the Katey ranch where the mother is in trouble. She thinks her missing son has returned and even though the Sheriff is chasing him, he decides to take up the mother's fight against the man who is trying to throw her off the ranch.
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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1940)
Character: Measles
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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Submarine Raider (1942)
Character: Shannon
On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier "Hiranamu", orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. His ship encounters and sinks an American yacht and the single survivor, Sue Curry, is rescued by an American submarine, the "Sea Serpent", commanded by Commander Chris Warren. He hears her story and attempts to radio a warning to Pearl Harbor. Yamanada, hearing the signals, orders the airlines jammed, and then sends his son into the air to sink the sub. The attack fails, after the sub makes a crash dive, but they fail in their warning attempts. The next morning, December 7th, the men on the sub hear the story of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and devise a desperate plan to sink the Japanese carrier by letting the carrier know their position. The carrier comes in search of the submarine.
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Cafe Hostess (1940)
Character: Henchman
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
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Flying G-Men (1939)
Character: Hall
Four flying G-Men protect America against enemy spies; one of the four assumes the identity of The Black Falcon, to befuddle the saboteurs even further.
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We Want Our Mummy (1939)
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
The stooges go to Egypt in search of the mummy of king Rootin-Tootin for which a museum will pay a $5000 prize. They wind up in the mummy's tomb where they are harassed by some bad guys after the same objective. The villains, who have kidnapped a professor from the museum, want the jewels buried inside the mummy. When Curly accidentally destroys the mummy, Moe and Larry wrap him in bandages to fool the bad guys. They manage to rescue the professor and retrieve the real mummy of Rootin-Tootin who turns out to have been a midget.
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Special Inspector (1938)
Character: Henchman, posing as David Foster
U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which hijacks Canadian fur-shipper's trucks and sells the loot in the United States.
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The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)
Character: Mr. Johnson
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.
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3 Dumb Clucks (1937)
Character: Chopper's Henchman (uncredited)
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 is mistaken for the stooges father (he plays both parts) and marries the girl instead. When they learn that she is working with gangsters who plan to kill their father for his money, they escape and take their father with them.
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The Secret Seven (1940)
Character: Henchman Bishop
Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a series of murders.
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Meet the Stewarts (1942)
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
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Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
Character: Railroad Pullman Passenger (uncredited)
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
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Bullets for Rustlers (1940)
Character: Shorty - Bartender
Steve Beaumont, an operative for the Cattleman's Protective Association, is assigned the difficult task of breaking up a murderous gang of rustlers led by Ed Brock and Strang. He takes Sheriff Webb, Judge Baxter, and rancher Ann Houston into his confidence, and works his way into the rustler stronghold and confidence by "turning rustler" himself.
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Sabotage Squad (1942)
Character: George, end barber [script name only: Felix]
A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts to corner a gang of Nazi saboteurs operating out of a barber shop, in which their mutual girlfriend works, and unmask its secret leader.
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939)
Character: Mustached Henchman (uncredited)
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
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Atlantic Convoy (1942)
Character: Radio Operator
American naval forces are using a port in Iceland as a base for anti-submarine patrols to protect North Atlantic convoys from Nazi subs. The Nazis send undercover agents into the port in a scheme to blow up the entrance to the harbor and keep the patrols blocked in. The officers in charge of the patrols have to find the spies and stop them before they achieve their objective.
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Before I Hang (1940)
Character: Guard
Dr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and combating aging. The experiment takes an unexpected turn, placing the doctor in a confrontation with the ethics of his work and the consequences of his research.
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The Lady in Question (1940)
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
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Mandrake the Magician (1939)
Character: Kidnapping Henchman
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
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Glamour for Sale (1940)
Character: Freddie Walker (uncredited)
A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.
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North of Shanghai (1939)
Character: Sam
In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over and decide to team up. They are further assisted by a Chinese cameraman. The three of them manage to expose of spy ring operating out of the Shanghai office of the woman's newspaper.
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Cash and Carry (1937)
Character: Bank Teller (uncredited)
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 treasure map from a con man. Thinking the treasure is buried beneath an old house, the boys start digging and wind up in a US treasury vault where they are promptly arrested. The president (FDR) gives them amnesty and arranges for the boy's operation.
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Blondie Goes Latin (1941)
Character: Steward (uncredited)
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.
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Ghosts on the Loose (1943)
Character: Wedding Usher (uncredited)
The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.
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What's the Matador? (1942)
Character: Telegraph Clerk / Bullring Attendant (uncredited)
The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their suitcase. When they are confronted by her jealous husband he vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the fiesta where they are performing a comedy bullfight (Curly is the matador, Moe and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the ring. Curly knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero.
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It Can't Last Forever (1937)
Character: Reporter
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
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Convicted (1938)
Character: Berger
A nightclub dancer and a detective try and catch the gangster who framed her brother.
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Hello, Annapolis (1942)
Character: Hank
Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl.
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Men Without Souls (1940)
Character: Lefty
A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.
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Five Little Peppers in Trouble (1940)
Character: Mrs. Wilcox's Chauffeur
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
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The Affairs of Susan (1945)
Character: Bartender at Bright Dollar (uncredited)
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.
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Mystery Ship (1941)
Character: Turillo
FBI agents Allan Harper and Tommy Baker are in charge of a group of subversives, spies and saboteurs that the US government is deporting to foreign countries aboard a ship. The deportees attempt to take over the ship.
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Money Squawks (1940)
Character: Robber (uncredited)
Andy Clyde and Shemp Howard are station agents for the railroad. Their job is to defend against robberies but neither seems capable of doing anything but trouble. Through the course of the story, they shoot at some innocent hunters, are terrorized by a duck AND end up GIVING the money to the crooks by mistake. Can Andy and Shemp somehow redeem themselves?
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Island of Doomed Men (1940)
Character: Borgo - Parolee (uncredited)
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
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Blazing Six Shooters (1940)
Character: Henchman
The story revolves around a valuable silver deposit, located between two ranches. Villain Lash Bender cooks up a scheme to gain control of both ranches so that he may have a clear field to the silver lode.
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Down Rio Grande Way (1942)
Character: Ranger Davidson
Slightly more elaborate than most Charles Starrett westerns, Down Rio Grande Way is set in the mid-19th century, when the Republic of Texas was poised to join the Union. Starrett plays Texas Ranger Steve Martin, who is dispatched to a "renegade" Texas country that refuses to become part of the good old USA. He discovers that the crux of the problem is a local tax collector who, with the help of a crooked newspaper editor, is systematically robbing the citizens of their hard-earned cash, all the while fomenting anti-American sentiments.
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A Plumbing We Will Go (1940)
Character: The Prosecutor
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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Convicted Woman (1940)
Character: Jack Pendy (uncredited)
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
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Hold That Blonde! (1945)
Character: Man in Bed (uncredited)
Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another girl for a cure. He fastens his interest upon Sally Martin, who happens to be engaged upon helping some crooks steal a valuable necklace. Complications include two scantily attired individuals, one of them drunk, clinging to the cornice of a skyscraper and a large band of crooks in quest of the precious jewels.
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Slippery Silks (1936)
Character: Manager of 'Madame de France' (uncredited)
The Stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They put on a fashion show with dresses they've designed based on furniture. During the show the owner of a antique box the stooges wrecked shows up and a wild cream puff fight ensues.
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Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
Character: Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.
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Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942)
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the army, Tim to escape Vince's wrath and Vince to get his lunch-hooks on Tim. Both of our heroes run afoul of Army discipline and protocol in general, and tough top sergeant Valentine (Donald MacBride).
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Hands Across the Rockies (1941)
Character: Court Clerk
Wild Bill Hickock and Cannonball help two young people in love and bring the murderer of Cannonball's father to justice.
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The Racket Man (1944)
Character: Henchman Chuck
A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees to help the FBI break up a black market ring by pretending to have been kicked out of service and to have resumed his old life of crime.
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Murder in Times Square (1943)
Character: Younger Detective
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
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Deadwood Dick (1940)
Character: Henchman
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
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His Wedding Scare (1943)
Character: Niagara Falls Hotel Desk Clerk
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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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! (1942)
Character: Guard
Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy because all their customers have marched off to war. Figuring that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, Hank and Jed try to join the Army themselves, only to be rejected for a variety of reasons (When asked to read the eye-chart, Hank says he can't-not because he can't see, but because he can't read).
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Thundering Frontier (1940)
Character: Clem (uncredited)
After a handful of non-formula westerns, Charles Starrett returned to the mixture as before in Thundering Frontier. Starrett plays Jim Fillmore, kind to old ladies, small animals and heroine Norma Belknap (Iris Meredith). In contrast, the villains are kind to no one, least of all struggling building contractor Square Deal Scottie (Alex Callam), whose projects are continually targeted for demolition and his payroll is forever being stolen at gunpoint. A good 25 percent of the film's running time is given over to Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers, whose C&W croonings are pleasant but a bit much. One of the film's few surprises is that Starrett's perennial screen sparring partner Dick Curtis isn't one of the bad guys.
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Beyond the Sacramento (1940)
Character: Townsman
Bill learns that two con artists whom he has dealt with before are at it again. Crowley runs the saloon and Adams the newspaper and both are highly respected by the citizens. Bill has foiled their schemes before and this time he breaks into Adams' office and resets the front page saying Adams confesses to be a fugitive criminal. When the citizens gather the next day the end is near for Adams and Crowley.
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Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940)
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid. But Dithers has no time for any salary disputes: his construction firm is currently stuck with an unsaleable old mansion that is rumored to be haunted. To disprove this theory, Dithers asks the Bumstead family to spend a night in the crumbling old house, throwing a retinue of servants into the bargain.
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Outlaws of the Panhandle (1941)
Character: Henchman Chad
Outlaws of the Pandhandle was the last of Charles Starrett's "formula" westerns for Columbia: hereafter, Starrett would be seen only in the guise of frontier medico Steven Monroe or masked do-gooder The Durango Kid. For the moment, however, the star is cast as Jim Endicott, bound and determined to put an end to the underhanded activities of gin-mill operator Faro Jack Vaughn (Norman Willis). The villain's strategy is to get the local cowpunchers tanked up on rotgut that they'll prove to be easy pickings for a gang of rustlers-and will be unable to complete work on a railroad spur which will bypass the outlaws' hideaway.
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Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (1939)
Character: Swindler in Front Seat (uncredited)
Once again, the Stooges are three hapless tramps. After nearly destroying a farmer's (Richard Fiske) pile of firewood, the boys come to the assistance of the Widow Jenkins (Eva McKenzie), who has just been cheated out of her land by a trio of swindlers (Dick Curtis, Eddie Laughton, James Craig). Attempting to fix the woman's well, the Stooges instead unleash an oil geyser. They manage to retrieve the deed to the land and are allowed to marry the now wealthy Widow Jenkins' daughters. Moe tells Curly to wish for quintuplets, and Curly replies, "We'll honeymoon in Canada!" (a reference to the Dionne quintuplets).
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Movie Maniacs (1936)
Character: Grip (uncredited)
The boys are stowaways on a train box-car filled with furniture bound for Hollywood where they hope to break into movies and become stars. Arriving at the Carnation Pictures Studios. Fuller Rath, the studio general manager, receives a telegram from the home office telling him that a certain "Mr. Smith and his two assistants" will arrive to take over the supervision of the studios. He mistakes the Stooges as the executives and gives them free reign over the studios, where they proceed to disrupt and destroy the production of a romantic drama.
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Honolulu Lu (1941)
Character: Sailor
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
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Sailor's Holiday (1944)
Character: N/A
In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just broken off their engagements after meeting other, more desirable women.
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The Lost Weekend (1945)
Character: Mr. Brophy (uncredited)
Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.
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Cactus Makes Perfect (1942)
Character: Gold Mine 'Salesman' (uncredited)
The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to find the treasure. After some mishaps with Curly's gold finding invention, they locate the mine and strike it rich. When two crooked miners try to take their gold they hole up in an abandoned hotel and, although they get bombarded by dynamite, triumph over the crooks.
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So Long Mr. Chumps (1941)
Character: Percy Pomeroy (uncredited)
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 if they can find an honest man with executive ability. Their search leads them to a woman who's fiancée is honest, but he's in jail. The boys decide to commit a crime so they can go behind bars to find him. In prison the boys locate the man and help him escape, only to find out that their benefactor is a con man and on the way himself to the slammer.
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Out West with the Peppers (1940)
Character: Lumberjack
When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But adjusting to a new home and community isn't easy for the brood. Third entry in the "Five Little Peppers" series of four films.
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Scandal Sheet (1939)
Character: Hal Lunny
The crimes of a tabloid publisher are exposed by a reporter, his secret illegitimate son.
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You Nazty Spy! (1940)
Character: Vance Rippemup (uncredited)
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 to make Moe the new ruler as he'll be stupid enough to follow their orders. Moe becomes Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry becomes Minister of Propaganda. After successfully preventing a female spy from committing mayhem, the boys are run out of office by a mob and eaten by lions.
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