Larry Fine

Larry Fine is proof that the middle of a comedy act is its load-bearing wall. Flanked by louder Stooges, he absorbed slaps, kept the rhythm, and made chaos legible, a reactive style of comedy that rarely gets credit because it looks like doing nothing. The detail I treasure is that he was a trained violinist from Philadelphia; that musician's timing is all over his work, every flinch landing on the beat. Half a century after his death in 1975, the shorts still get laughs, which is the only review that matters. Every great ensemble owes something to the man in the middle, and Larry wrote the manual.

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Name (English)

Larry Fine

Name (Japanese)

ラリー・ファイン

Reading

らりー・ふぁいん

Born

October 5, 1902 – January 24, 1975

Origin

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Occupation

comedian / violinist / film actor / stage actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Tiger

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Fine
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q982177

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• comedian
• violinist
• film actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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