Nobody's Stooge: Ted Healy (A Biography of the Stage and Screen Star Who Gave Birth to the Act That Became "The Three Stooges")
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The Three Stooges have been cracking up movie and TV audiences with their antics for 94 years. From their start in films with Ted Healy in the early 1930's, through their glory days with Columbia, to their own feature films in the 1960's - the Stooges film career spanned over forty years, and they're still popular today!
There are a total of 1230 short subjects, feature films and other media in our Filmography that had one or more of the Stooges appearing in the cast. We have logged every film appearance the Three Stooges - all six of them (seven when you count Ted Healy!) - ever made, including their solo appearances, and their radio and TV guest appearances as well. We have even logged 318 different tributes to the Stooges made in films or on television.
Breakdown by Stooges Team
| Stooges Team | Shorts | Films | Other | TV | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ted Healy and His Stooges [ THS ] (1930 - 1934) | 7 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 26 |
| Moe, Larry and Curly [ MLC ] (1934 - 1947) | 99 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 129 |
| Moe, Larry and Shemp [ MLS ] (1947 - 1956) | 77 | 3 | 1 | 23 | 104 |
| Moe, Larry and Joe [ MLJ ] (1957 - 1959) | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18 |
| The Columbia Shorts [ COL ] (1934- 1959) | 192 | ||||
| Moe, Larry and Curly Joe [ MLD ] (1959 - 1970) | 2 | 8 | 45 | 63 | 118 |
| Moe Howard (Solo) [ SMH ] (1933 - 1973) | 2 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 25 |
| Curly Howard (Solo) [ SCH ] (1934) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Shemp Howard (Solo) [ SSH ] (1933 - 1949) | 55 | 48 | 1 | 2 | 106 |
| Larry Fine (Solo) [ SLF ] (1973 - 1974) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Joe Besser (Solo) [ SJB ] (1938 - 1976) | 13 | 28 | 0 | 305 | 346 |
| Joe DeRita (Solo) [ SJD ] (1943 - 1958) | 4 | 8 | 0 | 10 | 22 |
| Ted Healy (Solo) [ STH ] (1926 - 1938) | 5 | 25 | 3 | 12 | 45 |
| Moe Howard and Curly Howard (Solo) [ SMH_SCH ] (1933 - 1934) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Ted Healy and Curly Howard (Solo) [ STH_SCH ] (1934) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Miscellaneous Appearances [ MISC ] (Any) | 1 | 5 | 8 | 73 | 87 |
| Shemp Howard and Joe Besser (Solo) [ SSH_SJB ] (1949) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ted Healy and Larry Fine (Solo) [ STH_SLF ] (1933) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals: | 475 | 153 | 73 | 529 | 1230 |
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