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Larry Semon

Larry Semon

Directing
14 Jul 1889
08 Oct 1928
West Point, Mississippi, USA

Biography

American silent film comedian whose hugely successful career disappeared virtually overnight, Larry Semon was the son of a traveling vaudeville magician, Zera the Great. He grew up in show business and was trained in stage comedy and acrobatics. A talent for drawing and cartooning led to art school and then work as a cartoonist for various New York City newspapers. The humor evident in his published cartoons prompted executives at New York's Vitagraph Studios to hire him as a gag writer in 1916....

Also Known As

Lawrence Semon, Ларри Симон, Lawrence "Larry" Semon

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