Cast & creator
Curly Howard
Best known for The Three Stooges, The Three Stooges: Hey Moe! Hey Dad!, Dancing Lady
Jerome Lester "Jerry" Horwitz, better known by his stage name Curly Howard, was an American comedian and vaudevillian. He is best known as a member of the American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges, along with his older brothers Moe Howard and Shemp Howard, and actor Larry Fine. Curly is generally considered the most popular and recognizable of the Stooges. He is well known for his high-pitched voice, vocal expressions ("nyuk-nyuk-nyuk!","woo-woo-woo!", and barking like a dog), as well as his inventive physical comedy, improvisations, and athleticism.
Also known as: Jerome Howard, Jerry Howard, The Three Stooges, Jerome Lester Horwitz, Curley Howard
150
film credits
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television credits
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1932–2024 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (154)
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The Three Stooges
Curly
1934
The Three Stooges: Hey Moe! Hey Dad!
Curly (archive footage)
2015
Dancing Lady
Stagehand Curly
1933
The Last Laugh
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016
Start Cheering
Curly Howard
1938
Movie Maniacs
Curly
1936
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
1934
Hoi Polloi
Curly
1935
The Three Stooges + Comedy Gold Standard
Curly
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
Curly
1934
Fugitive Lovers
Bill, Second of Three Julians
1934
False Alarms
Curly
1936
Restless Knights
Baron of Gray Manor
1935
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
1984
The Big Parade of Comedy
One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited)
1964
Monkey Businessmen
Curly
1946
Idiots Deluxe
Curly
1945
Whoops, I'm an Indian!
Curly
1936
Three Little Sew and Sews
Curly
1939Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1992
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
Phony Express
Curly
1943
No Census, No Feeling
Curly
1940
Tassels in the Air
Curly
1938
The Three Stooges Greatest Hits!
Self / Curly (archive footage)
1997
Stop! Look! and Laugh!
Curly
1960
All the World's a Stooge
Curly
1941
Plane Nuts
Curly
1933
Time Out for Rhythm
Curly
1941
Dizzy Doctors
Curly
1937
Ants in the Pantry
Curley
1936
Turn Back the Clock
Wedding Singer (uncredited)
1933
Hollywood Party
Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
1934
Operator 13
Confederate Soldier (uncredited)
1934
Booty and the Beast
Sleeping Passenger (uncredited) (archive footage)
1953
The Making of the Stooges
Curly (archive footage)
1984
I'll Never Heil Again
Curly Gallstone
1941
Dizzy Detectives
Curly
1943
Yes, We Have No Bonanza
Curly
1939
In the Sweet Pie and Pie
Curly
1941
A Plumbing We Will Go
Curly
1940
Cookoo Cavaliers
Curly Sinker
1940
Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special
Curly (archive footage)
2003
They Stooge to Conga
Curly
1943
The Three Stooges Story
Curly (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001
Hollywood on Parade
Self
1932
An Ache in Every Stake
Curly
1941
The Yoke's on Me
Curly
1944
Sock-a-Bye Baby
Curly
1942
Roast-Beef and Movies
Bogus Movie Producer (as Jerry Howard)
1934
Pop Goes the Easel
Curly
1935
So Long Mr. Chumps
Curly
1941
Higher Than a Kite
Curly
1943
Disorder in the Court
Curly
1936
Grips, Grunts and Groans
Curly
1937Three Stooges: Greatest Routines
Curly
1964
Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
Curly
1939
Saved by the Belle
Curly
1939
We Want Our Mummy
Curly
1939
From Nurse to Worse
Curly
1940
A Bird in the Head
Curly
1946
Broadway to Hollywood
Fritz the Clown
1933
The Three Stooges: Kings Of Laughter
Curly (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001
What's the Matador?
Curly
1942
Some More of Samoa
Curly
1941
The Three Stooges Follies
Curly (archive footage)
1974
My Sister Eileen
Subway Builder (uncredited)
1942
Back to the Woods
Curly
1937
You Nazty Spy!
Curly Gallstone
1940
Los tres chiflados
Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb
Curly
1938
Rhythm and Weep
Curly
1946
Swing Parade of 1946
Curly
1946
Violent Is the Word for Curly
Curly
1938
Back from the Front
Curly
1943
A Ducking They Did Go
Curly
1939
Loco Boy Makes Good
Curly
1942
A Hit with a Miss
Story
1945
How High Is Up?
Curley
1940
A Pain in the Pullman
Curly
1936
Jail Birds of Paradise
Prisoner
1934
A Gem of a Jam
Curly
1943
Meet the Baron
A Stooge
1933
Crash Goes the Hash
Curly
1944
Three Little Beers
Curly
1935
Rockin' in the Rockies
Curly
1945The Parrott Chase
(archive footage) (uncredited)
2009
Three Sappy People
Curly
1939
If a Body Meets a Body
Curly
1945The Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Edition: Tales from the Three Stooges Vol. 1
Himself
1947
I Can Hardly Wait
Curly
1943
Mutts to You
Curly
1938
Rockin' Thru the Rockies
Curly
1940
The Captain Hates the Sea
Drummer
1934
Nertsery Rhymes
Boy
1933
Termites of 1938
Curly
1938
Classic Comedy Teams
Self (archive footage)
1986
Three Pests in a Mess
Curly
1945
Half Shot Shooters
Curly
1936
Three Little Pirates
Curly
1946
Steel Pier, Atlantic City, NJ
Curly
1938
The Big Idea
Healy's Stooge
1934Three Stooges Comedy Collection
(archive footage) (uncredited)
2024
Even as IOU
Curly
1942
Beer Barrel Polecats
Curly
1946
G.I. Wanna Home
Curly
1946
Cactus Makes Perfect
Curly
1942
3 Dumb Clucks
Curly / Pop Howard
1937
Columbia Laff Hour
Curley
1956
Wee Wee Monsieur
Curly
1938
Idle Roomers
Curly
1944The Three Stooges - Simply Hilarious
Curly (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000
The Three Stooges: Five of Their Greatest Shorts
(archive footage) (uncredited)
2009
Half-Wits Holiday
Curly
1947
Three Smart Saps
Curly
1942
Three Little Pigskins
Curly
1934
Flat Foot Stooges
Curly
1938
The Three Stooges in 3D
Curly (archive footage) (uncredited)
2012
Uncivil War Birds
Curly
1946
Pardon My Scotch
Curly
1935
No Dough Boys
Curly
1944
Goofs and Saddles
Curly
1937
Horses' Collars
Curly
1935
Matri-Phony
Curleycue
1942
Hold That Lion!
Curly - Sleeping Passenger (uncredited)
1947
Cash and Carry
Curly
1937
Gents Without Cents
Curly
1944The Lost Stooges
(archive footage)
1990
Nutty But Nice
Curly
1940
Beer and Pretzels
Curly
1933
Men in Black
Dr. Howard
1934
The Three Stooges: Stooged & Confoosed
(archive footage) (uncredited)
2004
Playing the Ponies
Curly
1937
Stooge O-Rama: The Men Behind the Mayhem - And Even More Mayhem!
(archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Punch Drunks
Curly
1934Punch Drunks
Story
1934
Boobs in Arms
Curly
1940
Dizzy Pilots
Curly Wrong
1943
Slippery Silks
Curly
1936
Woman Haters
Jack
1934
Micro-Phonies
Curly
1945
The Three Troubledoers
Curly
1946
Spook Louder
Curly
1943
Dutiful But Dumb
Curly
1941
Three Missing Links
Curly
1938
Calling All Curs
Dr. Curly
1939
Booby Dupes
Curly
1945
Myrt and Marge
Mullins' Helper
1933
Three Little Twirps
Curly
1943
The Sitter Downers
Curly
1937
Busy Buddies
Curly
1944
Three Loan Wolves
Curly
1946
Hello Pop
Son
1933
Uncivil Warriors
Curly
1935