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Shemp Howard
4 March 1895
Shemp Howard played in 28 movies in the Comedy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Music, Mystery, Music, War, Short, Adventure genres.
Shemp Howard got succeed with average imdb rating 6.8.
Died in the back seat of a car on the way home from watching a boxing match.
Member of The Three Stooges till 1930, when he was replaced by Curly Howard (Jerome) until 1946. Following Curly Howard's debilitating stroke, Shemp rejoined the team.
(See Ted Healy.)
Interred at Home of Peace Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Son of Sol Horowitz; brother of actors Curly Howard and Moe Howard, and non-actors, Jack Horowitz and Irving Horowitz.
He got the name "Shemp" when he was a child. Whenever his mother would say his name, "Sam", the combination of her heavy Lithuanian accent and abrupt manner of speaking made it come out sounding like "Shemp". The name stuck.
... After Curly had his stroke, Shemp was brought back, with Curly's blessing, to be a stopgap until Curly got better. Sad to say, Curly never got well enough to continue, so Shemp stayed with the Stooges until he died.
Son of Sol Horowitz
The phrase "to shemp" meaning "to fake" was coined from the actor's name. It was inspired by Columbia's use of an uncredited double in order to complete several Three Stooges shorts left uncompleted at the time of Shemp Howard's death.
Was multi-phobic, many who knew him jokingly said he was even afraid of his own shadow.
Director Sam Raimi, an avid Three Stooges fan, credits stand-ins and body doubles in his movies as "Fake Shemps," a reference to the body doubles used after Howard's death.
Larry, Moe, Shemp and Curly appeared in only one short together. It was called "Hold That Lion" (1947), and Curly appears as an uncredited train car passenger. Watch for the man with the hat on his face. This was a short, non- speaking cameo, due to Curly's health issues.
Is portrayed by John Kassir in The Three Stooges (2000) (TV)
His favorite Three Stooges comedy was Fright Night (1947), his first comedy with the Three Stooges and which dealt with boxing.
His favorite actors were Richard Arlen, Andy Devine and Horace McMahon. Patsy Kelly was his favorite actress and Fred Allen was his favorite radio comedian.
Was an avid boxing fan.
Had a son named Mort Howard.
During the early 1940s, when his solo career was at its height and he was a contract player at Universal Studios, appearing with everyone from Abbott and Costello to W.C. Fields to John Wayne, he was promoted as "The Ugliest Man in the Movies".
Once when he and his brother Moe, as children, were left to watch baby brother Jerome 'Curly' Howard, they turned his baby carriage into a soapbox racer and were about to test it out when their parents came home.
Like his brother, Moe, played hooky from school often and his mother would have to come down and straighten things out. When he graduated grade school, it was said that he didn't graduate, but his mother did.
When he was six years old, at a family picnic, he sneaked off with a plate of tomatoes and hit a man with them. The man dragged Shemp back, kicking and screaming, Shemp's mother beat the man with her umbrella.
He is Alex Trebeck's favorite stooge.
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