Question: Facts: - death place: hollywood , california , u.s. - years active: 1923 -- 1955 - caption: shemp howard , circa 1945 - birth name: samuel horwitz - death cause: heart attack - death date: 22 november 1955 - spouse: gertrude frank -lrb- 1925-1955 ; his death -rrb- - children: morton -lrb- 1926 -- 1972 -rrb- - birth date: 11 march 1895 - name: shemp howard - image size: 200px - image: shemp howardfaceshot.jpg - birth place: manhattan , new york , u.s. - occupation: actor/comedian Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of shemp howard .
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shemp howard -lrb- march 11 , 1895 -- november 22 , 1955 -rrb- was an american actor and comedian .born samuel horwitz , he was called '' shemp '' because '' sam '' came out that way in his mother 's thick litvak accent .he is best known today for his role as the third stooge in the three stooges , a role he first portrayed at the beginning of the act in the early 1920s -lrb- 1923-1932 -rrb- while the act was still associated with ted healy and known as '' ted healy and his stooges '' , and again from 1947 until his death in 1955 .between those times , shemp had a successful film career as a solo comedian .