Emil Sitka was a veteran American actor who appeared in hundreds of movies, short films, and television shows, and is best known for his numerous appearances with The Three Stooges?nearly 40. He is one of only two actors to have worked with all six Stooges on film in the various incarnations of the group. He is remembered mostly for a line of dialogue he keeps repeating in the Three Stooges short, Brideless Groom, where he appears as the justice of the peace attempting to marry Shemp and Dee Green: "Hold hands, you lovebirds!" 

December 22nd, 1914 in Johnstown  /  Died:   Jan 16th, 1998 - Complications from a stroke, aged 83