- Born
- Died
- Birth nameLouis Feinberg
- Nickname
- Porcupine
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Larry began performing as a violinist at a young age. During his teenage years, he earned his living as a singer and boxer. At 18, Larry began working vaudeville with "The Haney Sisters and Fine" and in 1925, he joined Ted Healy and Moe Howard in the act that would eventually become The Three Stooges. Fine made more than 200 films before a stroke forced him to retire in 1970.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Michael J. Bauman < mbauman@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- SpouseMabel Haney(January 22, 1926 - May 30, 1967) (her death, 2 children)
- ChildrenPhyllis FineJohn Fine
- Always played the middle stooge with a receding hairline and bushy, unkempt hair. While he was not as dominating as Moe or as distinctive as Curly or his replacements, his relative normality allowed him to play the necessary straight man to the others.
- His trademark autograph was "Sincerely, Larry Fine".
- After Columbia shut down its shorts department, the Three Stooges took their act on the road. What they did not know was that they had found a renewed popularity thanks to their old theatrical film shorts being sold to television, exposing them to a whole new (and younger) audience. Larry's sister recalled that when their train pulled into some towns, there were mobs of people waiting. Larry, Moe and Joe DeRita would wonder who the V.I.P. was; they had no idea the crowd of people waiting was for them.
- When Joe DeRita was brought into The Three Stooges (as "Curly Joe"), Moe wanted to make him simply an employee. It was Larry who insisted that he be made a full equal partner. Larry reportedly threatened to quit unless Joe was treated fairly.
- When Larry joined the Three Stooges, Ted Healy offered him a salary of $90 a week and an extra $10 if he threw away the violin.
- His son John died in a car accident on November 17, 1961. He was 24 years old. His daughter Phyllis died of cancer on April 3, 1989. She was 60 years old.
- Larry had calluses on the left side of his chin, which he claimed resulted from years of getting slapped around by Moe in the movies. But Larry was a trained violinist from childhood, and this type of scarring is an occupational hazard among fiddle players.
- [to Ted Healy, who said he would pay $100 for his act but to forget the violin] For $100, I'll forget everything!
- The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962) - $50,000 +50% of profits (split with Moe Howard and Joe DeRita)
- Have Rocket -- Will Travel (1959) - $30,000 +25% of profits (split with Moe Howard and Joe DeRita)
- Woman Haters (1934) - $1,000 split with Curly Howard and Moe Howard
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