Nickname:	The Forgotten Stooge
Known for:	Brideless Groom, Sing a Song of Six Pants, Africa Screams
Birth name:	Samuel Horwitz
Birthday:	4 March 1895, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Height:	5' 6" (1.68 m)

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. Died in the back seat of a car on the way home from watching a boxing match. (See Ted Healy.) Son of Sol Horowitz; brother of actors Curly Howard and Moe Howard, and non-actors, Jack Horowitz and Irving Horowitz. 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. 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. 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. Is portrayed by John Kassir in The Three Stooges (2000) (TV) 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. Had a son named Mort Howard. 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. 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.

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