Forty Years Ago Today Moe Howard Passed

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biography

 

” Date of Birth 19 June 1897, Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
Date of Death 4 May 1975, Los Angeles, California, USA  (lung cancer)
Birth Name Moses Horwitz
Height 5′ 3½” (1.61 m)

 

  Moe Howard, the “Boss Stooge” and brother of Stooges Curly Howard and Shemp Howard, began his acting career in 1909 by playing bit roles in silent Vitagraph films. At 17 he joined a troupe working on a showboat and also appeared in several two-reel comedy shorts. In 1922 he, brother Shemp and Larry Fine joined roughhouse vaudeville comic Ted Healy, forming the act that would become The Three Stooges. Howard toured vaudeville and appeared in films with Healy for ten years before the Stooges left to pursue a separate career. Moe appeared in more than 250 films during his 66-year career, including 190 Three Stooges shorts. Over the act’s 50-year history, the Stooges went through several personnel changes; when Moe died, the act ended.”

 

 

Filmography

RIP Moe , Thanks for the laughs

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