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Shemp Howard (born Samuel Horwitz; March 11, 1895 [1] – November 22, 1955) was an American comedian and actor. He is best known as the third Stooge in The Three Stooges, a role he played when the act began in the early 1920s (1923–1932), while it was still associated with Ted Healy and known as "Ted Healy and his Stooges"; and again from 1946 until his death in 1955.
Shemp, in particular, disliked working with White after 1952, when White was the Stooges' only director. [8] Three years after Curly's death, Shemp Howard died of a heart attack at age 60 on November 22, 1955, during a taxi ride home with a friend after attending a boxing match. Moe was stunned and contemplated disbanding the Stooges.
The Three Stooges will he held tomorrow at 1 p. m. at the Home of Peace Cemetery. Mr. Howard, under contract to Columbia Studios for the past 23 years, died of an acute coronary occlusion late Tuesday night as he was being driven from his home at 10322 Riverside drive, North Hollywood, to St. Joseph's Hospital, Burbank.
The term refers to the comedy trio The Three Stooges.On November 22, 1955, Stooge Shemp Howard died of a heart attack at age 60. At the time, the Stooges still had four shorts left to deliver (Rumpus in the Harem, Hot Stuff, Scheming Schemers, and Commotion on the Ocean) under their annual contract with Columbia Pictures.
Husbands Beware was the first posthumous Stooge release featuring Shemp Howard, who died on November 22, 1955. This was the last film written by Clyde Bruckman before his suicide last year in 1955, borrowing silent film comedian Buster Keaton's gun to kill himself with inside a Hollywood restaurant bathroom.
When Shemp Howard died of a heart attack on November 22, 1955, the Three Stooges were still making short comedies for Columbia Pictures. Shemp was succeeded by Joe Besser in 1956; both Shemp Howard and Joe Besser had starred in their own separate short subjects. Columbia eventually shut down the short-subjects department at the end of 1957, and ...
Dent attended Shemp Howard's funeral in 1955. By that time, he was completely blind and had to be led to Shemp's casket. Character actor Emil Sitka was one of many at the event who did not know Dent had lost his sight: Vernon came into the parlor, wearing a yarmulke like everyone else since this was a Jewish ceremony.
After Shemp Howard died of a sudden heart attack on November 22, 1955, at age 60, Moe Howard was said had been observing Moreland's act for years and offered Moreland a chance to join the act as the new "third stooge" at the behest of his late brother Shemp.