Moe Howard (born Moses Harry Horwitz, June 19, 1897 – May 4, 1975) was an American comedian best known as the leader of the Three Stooges, the farce comedy team who starred in motion pictures and television for four decades. His distinctive hairstyle came about when he was a boy and cut off his curls with a pair of scissors, producing a ragged shape approximating a helmet or bowl.
Moe was born Moses Harry Horwitz in the Brooklyn, New York neighbo...
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Moe Howard (born Moses Harry Horwitz, June 19, 1897 – May 4, 1975) was an American comedian best known as the leader of the Three Stooges, the farce comedy team who starred in motion pictures and television for four decades. His distinctive hairstyle came about when he was a boy and cut off his curls with a pair of scissors, producing a ragged shape approximating a helmet or bowl.
Moe was born Moses Harry Horwitz in the Brooklyn, New York neighborhood of Brownsville, to Solomon Horwitz and Jennie Gorovitz. He was the fourth of the five Horwitz brothers and of Levite and Lithuanian Jewish ancestry. In his younger years, he got the nickname Moe. Although his parents were not involved in show business, Moe, his older brother Samuel and younger brother Jerome, all eventually became world-famous as members of the Three Stooges.
In school, Moe originally did quite well, aided by a prodigious memory. In later years, this helped him in his acting career, making memorizing his lines quick and...
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