Larry Fine was born Louis Feinberg in 1902. He played the "middle" Stooge in The Three Stooges.

Larry's father, Joseph Feinberg, owned a jewelry store and Larry tried this line of work for a brief time. However, Larry did not take his work seriously and with a $100 bonus and two weeks' pay, Larry's father asked his son to leave the business. It was then that Larry became a vaudeville performer. 

Larry had become a violin player in his teens and played in a theatre circuit. He expanded his act when he joined Gus Edwards' News Boy Sextette. He also danced and told jokes. Later he played violin in a singing act called "Haney Sisters and Fine." Larry ended up marrying one of the Haney sisters, Mabel, and they had two children: a son, Johnny, who died in an automobile accident in 1961, and a daughter, Phyllis. 

In 1925, Ted Healy and Moe Howard asked Larry to join the Three Stooges, as Shemp had left the group to go out on his own. Ted and Moe offered Larry $90 per week, but specified that he would need to give up the violin. Larry was hesitant to join the Stooges, because  he had never done slapstick comedy, but coincidentally, the day after Larry received the offer, the club where he and the Haney Sisters had been performing was shut down for serving alcohol; Prohibition was still in effect. As a result, Larry had no contract and no job so he eagerly accepted the Stooges' offer.

Larry was known as the "peacemaker" of the group. Being in the middle, he often was on the receiving end of Moe's punches and slaps. In their off-stage life, Larry and Moe often tangled, too. Larry tended to be happy-go-lucky, showing up late for filming sessions and paying more attention to ball games and horse races. He was an avid sports fan and gambler. He didn't care to rehearse and occasionally created situations that led to re-takes, with his clumsiness and lack of preparation. His partners were  impatient with him and rarely listened to his suggestions for scenes. "Larry's ideas were generally wild and off-beat." ⁴

Larry was well-liked, had many friends, and was the life of the party. He tended to be a goof-off and had difficulties with his personal finances, sometimes asking Moe to bail him out of financial difficulties. 

Larry is known for his naturally frizzy hair, which he let grow into a wild ridge around his head. Because he was the Middle Stooge and his job was to "get in the way" of the others, his hair was a perfect target for pulling, tearing, and yanking.⁵  He maintained a low profile but played a very important role in The Three Stooges' act, even without delivering many funny lines. He was described as a "warm, likeable human being. Larry was a quiet guy -- he didn't talk much," according to Mousie Garner. ⁶

In 1970, while filming a television feature called "Kook's Tour," Larry suffered a stroke that left his partially paralyzed. The movie was never finished and the Stooges ended their act. Five years later, at the age of 72, Larry suffered a massive stroke that ended his life.