- Nacimiento
- Fallecimiento1 de marzo de 1988 · North Hollywood, Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos (un insuficiencia cardíaca)
- Nombre de nacimientoJoseph Besser
- Altura1,63 m
- Joe Besser nació el 12 de agosto de 1907 en St. Louis, Missouri, Estados Unidos. Fue un actor y escritor, conocido por El halcón del desierto (1950), Las minas del rey Salmonete (1949) y Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958). Estuvo casado con Erna Kay. Murió el 1 de marzo de 1988 en Los Ángeles, California, EE.UU..
- CónyugeErna Kay(18 de noviembre de 1932 - 1 de marzo de 1988) (su muerte)
- NiñosNo Children
- PadresMorris BesserFannie Fecht Besser
- FamiliaresMolly Besser Rosenfeld(Sibling)Gertrude Helen Besser Tobias(Sibling)Florence Besser Miller(Sibling)
- His ability to play young children although he was a middle aged man
- His favorite comedians were Jack Benny, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, and Ann Miller is his choice for actress.
- He began his career in show business as a song plugger for a St. Louis-based music company, and later became a comedy assistant to the great magician Howard Thurston.
- A producer asked famed voice actress June Foray if she knew someone who could do a Joe Besser voice. June responded, "Well, why don't you call Joe Besser?" The verbal exchange made it into Hal Humphreys' newspaper column. Joe later met June Foray in a jewelry store. Besser embraced Foray and said, "June, you saved my career. I was hired for big job I never would have gotten.".
- When Columbia shut down its shorts department, The Three Stooges were forced to take the act on the road, and Besser was invited to go. However, he refused because he had to be home to take care of his sick wife. He was not fired as the legend has it.
- Was the only member of The Three Stooges to use his actual birth name in the act. All of the other Stooges, and even Ted Healy, used stage or Americanized names.
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