Larry Fine Biography

Fast Facts

• Learned to play the violin as a child as therapy for a badly burned arm
• Fought more than 40 bouts as a lightweight boxer
• Lived in hotels as an adult largely due to the fact that he and his wife despised housekeeping
• Inducted into the Central High School Hall of Fame despite not having received a diploma from the school
• Lent and spent money recklessly, never asked to be repaid
• A mural of the Stooges is painted on a building on South Street in Philadelphia close to Fine's boyhood home