Fred Sanborn

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name = Fred Sanborn


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birthdate = birth date|1899|11|23|mf=y
location = Massachussetts, United States
deathdate = Death date and age|1961|03|09|1899|11|23
deathplace = Los Angeles, California

Fred Sanborn (November 11, 1899 – March 9, 1961) was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and musician. He was most notable as a member of Ted Healy's comedy troupe "Ted Healy and his Southern Gentlemen" (which included the three people who would eventually become famous as The Three Stooges).

Sanborn appeared frequently in the group's early stage acts. However, after appearing with Healy, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Shemp Howard in the Rube Goldberg film Soup to Nuts (which he also wrote a song for), he left the group, preferring to concentrate on his music rather than become known as a "Healyite". [cite book
last=Fineberg
first=Morris
coauthors=G. P. Skratz, Steve Allen
title=Larry: The Stooge in the middle
publisher=Last Gasp
date=2001
isbn=9780867193084 ] He appeared in films sporadically throughout the 1930s-40s, often in small, unspeaking comedy roles.

His last performance was as a comedian on The Ed Wynn Show in 1950.

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