# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-palma
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:00:52.635Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-palma"
name: "Joe Palma"
slug: "joe-palma"
description: "Joe Palma was an American film actor. Palma appeared in over 120 films between 1937 and 1968. He was well known as a supporting player for The Three Stooges and his brief tenure as a body double to member Shemp Howard for four shorts produced after Shemp's death, which led to the coining of the term \"Fake Shemp\"."
tagline: "American actor (1905-1994)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/Joe_Palma_in_Fiddlers_Three_1948.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1905-03-17"
deathDate: "1994-08-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.665304
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0658012/"
    handle:    "nm0658012"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "جو پالما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Palma"
    title: "Joe Palma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "جو بالما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "جو بالما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Palma"
    title: "Joe Palma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Palma"
    title: "Joe Palma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Palma"
    title: "Joe Palma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6211675"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1250242"
    title: "Joe Palma"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump