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Joe DeRita is a Actor American born on 12 july 1909 at Philadelphia (USA)
Joe "Curly Joe" DeRita (July 12, 1909 – July 3, 1993), born Joseph Wardell, was an American actor and comedian who is best known for his stint as the sixth member of the Three Stooges, and the second to be billed as Curly, under the persona of "Curly Joe".
DeRita was the only member of the Stooges who was not Jewish.
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Birth name Joseph Wardell
Nationality USA
Birth 12 july 1909 at Philadelphia (USA)
Death 3 july 1993 (at 83 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 12 july 1909 at Philadelphia (USA)
Death 3 july 1993 (at 83 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)
Biography
DeRita was married to a chorus girl named Bonnie Brooks in 1935. After her death in 1965, he married Jean Sullivan.DeRita was the only member of the Stooges who was not Jewish.
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Kook's Tour (1970)
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Emil Sitka
Roles Curly-Joe
Rating57%
Star Spangled Salesman (1968)
, 20minutesOrigin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes Buddy films
Actors Howard Morris, Carl Reiner, Milton Berle, Carol Burnett, Moe Howard, Larry Fine
Roles Curly Joe
Rating64%
The Outlaws Is Coming (1965)
, 1h28Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Themes Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Adam West, Nancy Kovack, Mort Mills
Roles Curly-Joe
Rating59%
In 1871, Rance Roden (Don Lamond) plans to kill off all the buffalo and thus cause the Indians to riot. After they destroy the U.S. Cavalry (his real enemy), Rance and his gang will take over the West. Meanwhile, a Boston magazine gets wind of the buffalo slaughter and sends editor Kenneth Cabot (Adam West) and his associates (Moe, Larry and Curly Joe) to Casper, Wyoming to investigate. Once there, Ken's shooting skills (secretly aided by sharp shooter Annie Oakley (Nancy Kovack)) earn him the job of town sheriff. Rance has his band of bad guys called in to have the lawmen wiped out, but the Stooges sneak into the gang's hideout while the gang is asleep and glue their firearms to their holsters. When Ken confronts the bad guys, the bad guys decide that a life of justice is better than crime. Meanwhile, Rance and Trigger attempt to sell firearms to the Indians, including an armoured wagon containing a Gatling Gun and cannon in a turret, but the Stooges foil this plan by snapping a picture of them making the sale.
4 for Texas (1963)
, 1h50Directed by Robert Aldrich, Oscar Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson, Victor Buono
Roles Painting Deliveryman
Rating54%
In 1870, a shipment of $100,000 being transported by stagecoach to Galveston, Texas, is the object of a tug-of-war in the desert between Zack Thomas (Frank Sinatra) and Joe Jarrett (Dean Martin), who first must stave off an outlaw band led by Matson (Charles Bronson).
, 2h34Directed by Stanley Kramer, Carey Loftin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Dorothy Provine, Moe Howard
Roles Airport Firemen #3
Rating74%
"Smiler" Grogan (Jimmy Durante), wanted by police in a tuna factory robbery fifteen years ago and on the run from the police, careens his 1957 Ford Victoria off twisting, mountainous State Highway 74 near Palm Springs in Southern California and crashes. Five motorists stop to help him - Melville Crump (Sid Caesar), a dentist, Lennie Pike (Jonathan Winters), a furniture mover, Dingy Bell (Mickey Rooney) and Benjy Benjamin (Buddy Hackett), two friends on their way to Las Vegas, and J. Russell Finch (Milton Berle), who owns Pacific Edible Seaweed Company in Fresno. Just before he dies, Grogan tells the five about $350,000 buried in Santa Rosita State Park near the Mexican border under a mysterious "big W".
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on science fiction novels, Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Joan Freeman, Walter Burke, Peter Forster
Roles Curly-Joe
Rating61%
Phileas Fogg III (Jay Sheffield), great-grandson of the original Phileas Fogg, accepts a bet to duplicate his great-grandfather's famous trip around the world in response to a challenge made by Randolph Stuart III, the descendant of the original Fogg's nemesis. Unbeknownst to anyone, however, "Stuart" is the infamous con man Vicker Cavendish (Peter Forster) who made the bet in order to cover up his robbing the bank of England by framing Fogg for the crime.
The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962)
, 1h27Directed by Edward Bernds
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Comedy science fiction films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Buddy films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Emil Sitka, Carol Christensen, Edson Stroll
Roles Curly-Joe
Rating56%
The Stooges are TV actors who are trying to sell ideas for their animated television show The Three Stooges Scrapbook. Unfortunately, their producer does not like anything. He gives the boys ten days to come up with a gimmick or their show will be canceled. In the meantime the Stooges lose their accommodation when they are caught cooking in their room because Curly-Joe turned up the TV-disguised refrigerator way too loud. The only affordable accommodation that will allow cooking is found in an advertisement in a newspaper. The home belongs to Professor Danforth (Emil Sitka) and it resembles a castle.
, 1h29Directed by Edward Bernds
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action
Themes Films based on mythology, Time travel films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Buddy films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Vicki Trickett, Quinn K. Redeker, George N. Neise
Roles Curly Joe
Rating61%
The Stooges work at Dimsal's Drug Store in Ithaca, New York, where they befriend Schuyler Davis (Quinn Redeker), the owner of the shop next door, who is attempting to build a time machine. With the boys' "help", the machine transports the boys, Schuyler and disaffected girlfriend Diane Quigley (Vicki Trickett) back in time to Ithaca in ancient Greece during the reign of the lecherous King Odius (George N. Neise). The King, after defeating and imprisoning Ulysses because the Stooges are believed to be gods, has a yearning for Diane. Realizing they have disrupted the proper course of history, Schuyler and the boys free Ulysses, after which Odius banishes them to the galleys, where Schuyler builds impressive muscles while constantly rowing.
, 1h47Directed by Walter Lang, Frank Tashlin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films, Political films, Buddy films, Children's films, Films about royalty
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Edson Stroll, Patricia Medina, Guy Rolfe
Roles Curley-Joe
Rating52%
Once upon a time, in the kingdom of Fortunia, a noble king and his lovely young queen lack but one blessing to make their joy complete. The queen gives birth to a daughter named Snow White, but dies soon after. The king mourns her, but in time, he remarries because of the pleading of his people. His new Queen is a beautiful, but evil woman who soon becomes jealous of Snow White's beauty.
Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959)
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Buddy films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Anna-Lisa, Robert Colbert, Jerome Cowan
Roles Curley-Joe
Rating56%
The Stooges are janitors working at a space center who accidentally blast off to Venus. They encounter a talking unicorn, a giant fire breathing tarantula, and an alien computer who has destroyed all human life on the planet and creates three evil duplicates of the Stooges. When the boys return home triumphant, they are given a hero's welcome.
The Bravados (1958)
, 1h38Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Films about capital punishment, Children's films
Actors Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva, Barry Coe
Roles Simms
Rating69%
Jim Douglas (Gregory Peck) is a rancher pursuing four outlaws after the murder of his wife six months before. He rides into Rio Arriba, where four men, Alfonso Parral (Lee Van Cleef), Bill Zachary (Stephen Boyd), Ed Taylor (Albert Salmi) and Lujan (Henry Silva), are in jail awaiting execution. Sheriff Eloy Sanchez (Herbert Rudley) allows Douglas to see the men.
Coroner Creek (1948)
Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Marguerite Chapman, George Macready, Sally Eilers, Edgar Buchanan, Barbara Read
Roles Jack the Bartender
Rating65%
Vowing revenge after his fiancée is abducted from a stagecoach and ends up dead, Chris Denning (Randolph Scott) rides into the town of Coroner Creek seeking the man responsible.
Jitter Bughouse (1948)
, 17minutesDirected by Jules White
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Joe DeRita, Christine McIntyre, Emil Sitka
Roles Joe
Rating55%
Joe and his band practice for their big break in musical commercials. Joe also has a theory that music can cure the mentally imbalanced, and when he learns that his girlfriend Myrtle (Christine McIntyre) is a nurse for the rich, eccentric Mr. Lark (Emil Sitka), the boys head off to the Lark mansion to give a concert.
The Good Bad Egg (1947)
, 17minutesDirected by Jules White
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Joe DeRita, Dorothy Granger, Emil Sitka, Vernon Dent, Symona Boniface, Victor Travers
Roles Joe Priggle
Rating58%
Joe Priggle (Joe DeRita) is an inventor staying at a rest home where he tells the story to its proprietor (Vernon Dent) his strong dislike, eggs. It all starts when he fouls up one of his inventions to a client (Emil Sitka) when he finds an egg with an address written on it, the address belongs to a single woman Florabell (Dorothy Granger). He ends up marrying her, but soon finds out that she has an obnoxious brat of a son Rudolph (Norman Ollestead). He causes nothing but trouble for Joe by shooting him in the rear end with a slingshot, a BB gun and gets blown to bits by a miniature cannon. Meanwhile, Joe is busy working on his latest invention, a state-of-the-art dishwasher. The first time he uses it, it destroys all of Florabell's fine chinaware.
Wedlock Deadlock (1947)
, 17minutesDirected by Edward Bernds
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Joe DeRita, Christine McIntyre, Esther Howard, Dorothy Granger, Charles Williams
Roles Eddie
Rating63%
Just as Eddie (Joe DeRita) and his bride Betty (Christine McIntyre) are getting settled into their new home, her irascible family comes to visit.