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Moe Howard
Age: 77 (passed away May. 4th, 1975)
Height: 5' 4"
Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Born: Dec. 31st, 1969
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BIOGRAPHY: Moe Howard, the "Boss Stooge," 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 shorts. In 1922, he joined 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 Healy 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 Three Stooges went through several personnel changes; when Moe Howard died, the act ended.
TRIVIA:
- Moe of 'The Three Stooges' (qv).
- Determined to get into movies, Moe (then going by his middle name, Harry) went to the Brooklyn-based American Vitagraph studios in May, 1909, and volunteered to run errands for the stars and crews without charging for the service. This impressed 'Maurice Costello (I)' (qv), who brought Moe inside and introduced him to the company. Soon, he was appearing in dramas with Costello and comedies with 'John Bunny' (qv) and 'Flora Finch' (qv). At first, he didn't tell his family about his movie work. But, when they thought he was losing his mind because he was acting like his characters at home, he told them about his extracurricular activities. Most of his films from this period were lost when the Vitagraph film library burned on 2 July 1910.
- (See 'Ted Healy' (qv).)
- Got the idea for the notorious Stooge gag of eye-gouging one day when, during a game of bridge, Shemp leaned over and poked Larry in the eyes for not playing well. The result, Larry cried, Shemp apologized, Moe laughed until he fell out of his chair and walked through a glass door and considered the eye-gouge the funniest thing he'd ever seen.
- Son of 'Sol Horowitz' (qv).
- Voice work: for Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) "The Three Stooges" video game (1989).
- Grandfather of 'Jeffrey Scott (III)' (qv) and 'Michael Maurer (III)' (qv).
- Brother of actors 'Curly Howard' (qv), 'Shemp Howard' (qv).
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