Curly Howard
Biography
Jerome "Curly" Howard, the rotund, bald Stooge with the high voice was the most popular member of The Three Stooges. His first stage experience was as a comedic conductor for the Orville Knapp Band in 1928. Curly joined The Three Stooges in 1932, replacing his brother Shemp Howard. He made more than 100 film appearances with the team before a massive stroke on the set of Half-Wits Holiday (1947) forced him to retire. He recuperated enough to appear in Hold That Lion! (1947) and hoped to eventually return to the team. But another series of strokes deteriorated his health until he died at the age of 48.
48years old at death
- Born Bensonhurst
- Died San Gabriel
- Star sign: LibraLast day of the sign, on the Scorpio cusp
- Jerome Lester Horwitz (birth name)Also credited as Jerry Horwitz, Curly-Joe DeRita and Joseph Wardell
Movie Career
- Films
- 4
- Career span
- 13 years1933 to 1946
Every film, newest first
- 1946Swing Parade of 1946IMDb rating 5.3
- 1936Disorder in the CourtIMDb rating 8.0
- 1934Three Little PigskinsIMDb rating 7.4
- 1933Dancing LadyIMDb rating 6.8
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First role
Curly Howard got his start in 1928 as a comedy musical conductor for the Orville Knapp orchestra, flailing his arms while unaware that his pants were falling down.
A first
Curly was the only "third Stooge" who did not make a series of short films on his own, without Moe or Larry, whether before he joined the Stooges or after he left.
Getting ready for a role
Howard was an untrained actor who borrowed the "woo woo" from nervous comedian Hugh Herbert and greatly exaggerated it, with his own version set by the Stooges' second Columbia film, Punch Drunks.
Curly Howard movies on Netflix
Most often with
Moe Howard appears in four of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Moe Howard's page
Larry Fine's page
Bobby Burns's page
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.