Louis Feinberg

 Louis Feinberg, known professionally as Larry Fine (October 5, 1902 – January 24, 1975)

Upstaged by the team's angry leader Moe Howard and the scene-stealing Curly Howard, Larry was the glue between the two. He could also play piano, clarinet, and saxophone. He went into vaudeville, playing violin, dancing and doing Jewish dialect. He met Moe Howard in 1925 and joined the Three Stooges with Moe's brother Shemp. When Shemp left and Moe's younger brother Jerome joined the act as Curly in 1934, the Three Stooges began making two-reel shorts for 24 years. In the earliest Stooge films, Larry frequently indulged in utterly nutty behavior. Fine livened scenes up with improvised remarks or ridiculous actions. In the hospital spoof Men in Black (1934), Larry, dressed as a surgeon and wielding a large kitchen knife, chortles: "Let's plug him... and see if he's ripe!" In Disorder in the Court (1936), a tense courtroom scene is interrupted by Larry breaking into a wild Tarzan yell. Of course, after each of his outbursts, Moe would gruffly put him down. The Three Stooges became a big hit on television in 1959 when Columbia Pictures released a batch of their films, whose popularity brought them to a new audience and revitalized their careers.

Fine met his wife, Mabel Haney, in 1922, when both were working in vaudeville. They married in 1926, and remained together until her death in 1967. Larry Fine was in poor health towards the end his life, and confined to a wheelchair during the last five years of it. Like Curly Howard, Fine suffered several strokes before his death on January 24, 1975. He was interred in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in the Freedom Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Liberation.