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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





















