The leader of the raucous, knockabout slapstick group known as The Three Stooges, Moe Howard (born Moses Horwitz) made 190 two-reel shorts as a Stooge, as well as more than 20 feature-length motion pictures. His image as the tough-guy trying to get some order into the lives of the bumbling trio, yet always getting caught up in the mayhem himself, endures to this day through frequent broadcasts of Stooges product and revivals. Howard was bitten with the show biz bug at an early age, although he may not have known quite what his talents were at that time. Blessed with full-bodied hair, he wore
