Find A Grave - The Three Stooges

Besser (Besserer), Joe (Jerome) b. August 12, 1907 d. March 1, 1988
Actor. He was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and from a very early age knew he wanted a career in show business. His parents, who had immigrated from Poland in 1895, encouraged his love of magic and the theatre. As he would remark later in life, he spent most of his time attending vaudeville shows as opposed to going to elementary school. While still rather young, he worked as a delivery boy for Western Union, a distributor of handbills for the Fox Theatre Council, and a song-plugger...[Read More] (Bio by: Carrie-Anne)
Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Dedication, L-4404, space 2A
Boniface, Symona b. March 5, 1894 d. September 2, 1950
Actress. She began her career in the theatre, where she produced and wrote plays in addition to acting. In the 1920s she entered film, where at first she had bit or uncredited parts, and occasionally a meatier supporting role. Her most important early role was in the 1931 feature 'Dragnet Patrol.' In 1934 she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures, where she appeared in many of their short subjects. She appeared as a supporting player and character actress to such comedians as Andy Clyde...[Read More] (Bio by: Carrie-Anne)
Cause of death: Pancreatic Cancer
Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park, North Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: [unmarked]
Bonnell, Bonnie Wright b. August 1, 1905 d. March 14, 1964
Actress who starred with Ted Healy in a number of movie 'shorts' in the early 1930's which also featured the Three Stooges. Ted Healy coined her as "Bonnie." Her real first name is Marion.
Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Mausoleum, first floor, Faith Room, Niche 840
Curtis, Dick b. May 11, 1902 d. January 3, 1952
Actor. Prolific American motion picture and television figure of the 1910s through the 1950s. Appeared in numerous Westerns as well as comedies, including several with The Three Stooges. Married to actress Ruth Sullivan. (Bio by: A.J. Marik)
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section H, Lot 415
Dent, Vernon b. February 16, 1895 d. November 5, 1963
Actor. He began his career in entertainment as a singer and songwriter. He was touring Southern California as a member of a singing troupe in 1919 when he became friends with Hank Mann, one of the original Keystone Kops. As a result of this friendship, he earned a supporting role in a series of two-reelers Mann was making at the time. His work in this series, "Folly Comedies," quickly won him his own series of two-reelers. When the series was over, Dent did freelance acting work, working with...[Read More] (Bio by: Carrie-Anne)
Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Hillside, L-3796
DeRita, Joe 'Curly Joe' b. July 12, 1909 d. July 3, 1993
Actor, Comedian. He joined the Three Stooges act after Joe Besser left the act in 1958. He shaved his head to look more like the original Curly (Jerome Howard) who died in 1952.
Cause of death: Pneumonia
Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park, North Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Block D, Section 338, Lot 19
GPS coordinates: 34.1875916, -118.3608322 (hddd.dddd)
Dickerson, Dudley H. b. November 27, 1906 d. September 23, 1968
Actor. From the late 1930's until the mid 1950s he was the most prominent African-American actor working in two reel comedies. Contracted by Columbia Pictures, he appeared in more than 80 films such as The Three Stooges "A-Plumbing We Shall", and "Abbott and Costello Go to Mars". He also appeared in the "Amos N' Andy" shows of the 1950s. (Bio by: mike waugh)
Lincoln Memorial Park, Carson, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Z-33 grave 19
Fine, Larry b. October 5, 1902 d. January 24, 1975
Comedian. He was the frizzy-haired star of the legendary comedy team the The Three Stooges. Upstaged by the team's angry leader Moe Howard and the scene-stealing Curly Howard, Larry was indeed the comic "glue" between the two. Yet comedian Jerry Seinfeld once said that Larry, like his father, "never did anything but it wasn't the same without him." (Curly's successors, Shemp Howard, Joe Besser and Curly-Joe...[Read More] (Bio by: LincolnFan)
Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Freedom Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Liberation
Healy (Nash), Ted (Charles Earnest Lee) b. October 1, 1896 d. December 21, 1937
Actor and Vaudevillian. In 1908 his family moved from Texas to New York, where he finished his high school education. Originally he had planned on becoming a businessman, but after over a decade of flirting with a career in show business, including a brief stint as one of the diving "girls" in an aquatic act in the summer of 1912, he finally entered vaudeville around 1919. His act started out as impromptu comedy, since at this early stage of his career he hadn't mastered the art of memorizing...[Read More] (Bio by: Carrie-Anne)
Cause of death: Murdered
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section F, Lot 1693, Grave 14
Howard (Horwitz), Curly (Jerome Lester) b. October 22, 1903 d. January 18, 1952
Actor. He was the youngest of Jennie and Solomon Horwitz's five sons, and because of his status as family baby, his mother would often call him "My baby," leading his four much-older brothers to tease him by calling him Baby and later Babe, a nickname he later grew to like so much he often went by it. As a very young child he was already interested in performing, appearing in small home theatrical productions with his older brothers Moe and Shemp. He idolized these two brothers, even though he...[Read More] (Bio by: Carrie-Anne)
Cause of death: Complications from a stroke
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Western Jewish Institute Section, Row 5, Grave 1
GPS coordinates: 34.0208206, -118.1768570 (hddd.dddd)
Howard (Horwitz), Moe (Moses Harry) b. June 19, 1897 d. May 4, 1975
Actor. From a very early age he was interested in acting, a talent that was helped along by his voracious memory and capacity for memorizing just about anything, including all of the many books he read and all of the plays he saw when he was skipping school. His parents, however, were displeased by his constant truancy and his desire to have a career in show business, so he enrolled at the Baron DeHirsch Trade School in New York, where he took a class in electric shop. However, this only lasted...[Read More] (Bio by: Carrie-Anne)
Cause of death: Lung cancer
Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Garden of Memories, Alcove of Love, Wall C, Crypt 233
Howard (Horwitz), Shemp (Samuel) b. March 17, 1895 d. November 23, 1955
Actor, Comedian. Legendary comic actor with the Three Stooges. Born Samuel Horwitz in Brooklyn, New York in 1895, he worked with his brother Moe in various amateur and vaudeville acts until 1922, when a former school mate and vaudeville comedian, Ted Healy, was playing at the Brooklyn prospect theater and needed a replacement in his current act. Moe and Shemp joined the act. In 1927 Larry Fine joined Moe and Shemp with Ted Healy. In 1930, he co-star in "Soup to Nuts". A short time later, Healy...[Read More]
Cause of death: Heart attack
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: In Mausoleum-Second Tier from the bottom
Jamison, Bud (William) b. February 15, 1895 d. September 30, 1944
Actor. He entered vaudeville as a teenager, and by 1915 had begun appearing in Keystone comedies. Jamison was Charlie Chaplin's foil in short subjects such as 'In the Park,' 'The Bank,' 'Shanghaied,' 'By the Sea,' and 'A Jitney Elopement,' working as Chaplin's foil before Eric Campbell had. Chaplin considered Jamison to be one of his three favorite heavies to work with, the other two being Campbell and Mack Swain. In 1916 he began working at Hal Roach Studios, where he began appearing in Harold...[Read More] (Bio by: Carrie-Anne)
Cause of death: Diabetes
Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Mausoleum of the Golden West, Sanctuary of Dreams, Alcove of Psalms, Niche 26
MacDonald (Dollins), Kenneth b. September 8, 1901 d. May 5, 1972
Actor. He was the youngest son of salesman John W. Dollins and hairdresser Mary E. Tate, and grew up in Indiana. After graduating from high school in 1920, he started working as a stage actor. In 1930 he married LaMee Kathryn Nave, which whom he had three children. That same year, he officially changed his last name from Dollins to MacDonald. After about a decade of performing onstage, he moved to Hollywood to try to break into motion picture acting. (Some sources list him as appearing as the...[Read More] (Bio by: Carrie-Anne)
Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Sheltering Hills, Lot 155
McIntyre, Christine b. April 16, 1911 d. July 8, 1984
Actress. She was the second-born child of John Edward McIntyre, Sr., a mining engineer and musician, and Edna Annette Barnaby McIntyre, also a musician. In 1928, she enrolled in Chicago Musical College and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in voice in 1933. She got into this school with a scholarship, which she won by auditioning before Herbert Witherspoon, who was a prominent member of the New York Metropolitan Opera Company. During her years at Chicago Musical College, she also took classes...[Read More] (Bio by: Carrie-Anne)
Cause of death: Cancer
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section Z, Tier 6, Grave 15
GPS coordinates: 33.9926910, -118.3892975 (hddd.dddd)
Sitka, Emil b. December 22, 1914 d. January 16, 1998
Motion picture and television character actor. When he was twelve years old, his father, a coal miner, died from black lung disease, and his mother was hospitalized shortly thereafter. His younger four siblings went into foster care, but young Emil found a home in a Pittsburgh church with a priest. He became interested in acting when he got a role in the church's yearly Passion Play. However, at the time he wasn't yet set in the idea of becoming a professional actor; he wanted to become a...[Read More] (Bio by: Carrie-Anne)
Conejo Mountain Memorial Park, Camarillo, Ventura County, California, USA
Travers (Rosenbloom), Victor (Victor) b. 1884 d. May 26, 1948
Prolific Actor. He appeared in many motion pictures of the 1930s and 1940s. Among his more notable credits include roles in the classic films "You Can't Take It with You" (1938), "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), and "Only Angels Have Wings" (1939). He also appeared in a number of comedy shorts with the Three Stooges, such as "An Ache In Every Stake," "Loco Boy Makes Good," "Three Smart Saps," "Crash Goes...[Read More] (Bio by: A.J. Marik)
Hollywood Forever, Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Old Beth Olam Mausoleum, Foyer O, Tier 2, Niche 2

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