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Joe DeRita

Highest Rated: 100% The Bravados (1958)

Lowest Rated: 100% The Bravados (1958)

Birthday: Jul 12, 1909

Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

In 1959, after Jerome ('Curly') Howard, Shemp Howard, and Joe Besser had either retired or died, Joe DeRita stepped in as the final "third Stooge" alongside mainstays Moe Howard and Larry Fine. DeRita, often known as "Curly Joe," joined the Three Stooges after the group had made nearly 200 comedy shorts spanning a quarter century. The new Stooges were ready to move into a series of low-budget features arising from their newfound popularity due to the TV syndication of their shorts. The trio romped their still comically crackpot way through a half-dozen silly if broadly amusing vehicles in which they encountered Hercules, Snow White, and Western outlaws and were sent into orbit on several occasions.

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Highest rated movies

100% 68% The Bravados
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66% The Three Stooges in Orbit
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29% Flight From Ashiya
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72% The Three Stooges Meet Hercules
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78% The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze
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Jitter Bughouse
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67% The Doughgirls
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45% Have Rocket, Will Travel
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Joe DeRita

Joe DeRita THREE STOOGES MEET HERCULES, Joe DeRita, Moe Howard, Samson Burke, Larry Fine, 1962 SNOW WHITE AND THE THREE STOOGES, Moe Howard, Joe DeRita, Larry Fine, 1961. TM and Copyright © 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved.. THE THREE STOOGES MEET HERCULES, Quinn K. Redeker, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Moe Howard, 1962 THREE STOOGES GO AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAZE, THE, Moe Howard, Joe DeRita, Larry Fine, 1963 THREE STOOGES GO AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAZE, THE, Joan Freeman, Jay Sheffield, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Moe Howard, 1963 SNOW WHITE AND THE THREE STOOGES, from left: Joe DeRita, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, 1961, TM and Copyright (c) 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. All Rights Reserved SNOW WHITE AND THE THREE STOOGES, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, 1961. SNOW WHITE AND THE THREE STOOGES, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Joe DeRita, Carol Heiss, Edson Sroll, 1961 THE DOUGHGIRLS, Joe DeRita, Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, 1944 View more photos

Filmography

Movies

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No Score Yet 29% Flight From Ashiya Sgt. Randy Smith (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet 78% The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze Curly-Joe (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet 66% The Three Stooges in Orbit Curly-Joe (Character) - 1962
No Score Yet 72% The Three Stooges Meet Hercules Curly (Character) - 1962
No Score Yet 45% Have Rocket, Will Travel Curly-Joe (Character) - 1959
100% 68% The Bravados Mr. Simms (uncredited) (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jitter Bughouse Joe (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet 67% The Doughgirls The Stranger (uncredited) (Character) - 1944

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No Score Yet No Score Yet I Married Joan Waiter (Guest Star) 1952