Trivia

In the early 1930s, Healy was the highest paid comic in the country, making $30,000 per week. Despite the small fortune he got, he paid his Three Stooges, Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard and, after Shemp left, Curly Howard--$100 per week, split three ways.

His son - John Jacob Nash but who changed his name to Theodore John Healy - who was born four days before Ted's untimely death, graduated from Annapolis in 1963. He died in 2011 at the age of 73.

When Shemp Howard left the act, Moe Howard wanted his younger brother Jerome to take his place. However, Ted disliked Jerome and would not hire him. Some sources say Moe threatened to quit unless he hired Jerome. Whatever the reason, Ted finally agreed to hire him on the condition that he shaved his head, and went by the name of Curly. Healy figured that Jerome would not want to shave his head so he would not have to take him into the act, but Jerome did indeed agree to the terms, and thus became Curly Howard, the most popular of all The Three Stooges.

Befriended and worked with Moe Howard years before their "stooge" act in a water comedy show that featured swimmer Annette Kellerman in 1912. The act dissolved after a tragic accident in which a young female swimmer misjudged a dive and broke her neck.

Was a high school classmate of Bryan Foy, child star in the famous vaudeville act The Seven Little Foys, and this piqued Healy's interest in a career in vaudeville.

Attended high school at De La Salle Institute in Manhattan, New York City. He initially intended to follow his father's footsteps and pursue a career in business, but eventually decided on the stage.

Had English and Irish ancestry.

Following his untimely death, he was interred at Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

A 1931 Hearst Metrotone Newsreel (Volume 3, no. 220) reported on Ted Healy at a function in Chicago donating radios to poor children.

Son of gambler Charles McKinney Nash (1864-1907) and actress Mary Eugenia Healy (1865-1937).

Brother of Marcia Healy.

Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 210-211. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387