Edward Bernds on Samson Burke

This is a snippet taken from an interview with Edward Bernds in Pyschotronic Video #30:

Thanks to the Three Stooges shorts being shown every day on local TV stations, The Stooges (now with Joe DeRita) were back and starring in popular features. Bernds directed two, both released by Columbia in ’62. The Three Stooges Meet Hercules featured a time machine, twin cyclops, Emil Sitka and Gene Roth. “We hired a French Canadian strongman, he had a magnificent body, he was a body builder. He was very timid about doing the slapstick. The big, strong man with big muscles was a little timid. He had a French-Canadian name. We renamed him Samson Burke. With his reputation he had quite a carer as a Hercules in Italian movies.”