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Fred Sanborn (November 11, 1899 – March 9, 1961) was an American vaudeville
Vaudeville

Vaudeville was a genre of a variety show prevalent on the theatre in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. It developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrel show, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque....
 performer, actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, and musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
. He was most notable as a member of Ted Healy
Ted Healy

Ted Healy was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor. He is chiefly remembered today as the original employer of the Three Stooges, but had a successful stage and film career of his own....
'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
Moe Howard

Moe Howard was an United States comedian, best known as the leader of the Three Stooges, the slapstick comedy team who starred in motion pictures and television for four decades....
, Larry Fine
Larry Fine

Larry Fine may be:* Larry Fine , American actor best known for being one of the Three Stooges* Larry Fine , American technician, consultant, and author...
, and Shemp Howard in the Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg

Reuben Garret Lucius Goldberg was an United States cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor who received a 1948 Pulitzer Prize for his Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning....
 film Soup to Nuts
Soup to Nuts

Soup to Nuts is a feature film written by Rube Goldberg and directed by Benjamin Stoloff, which marks the film debut of the comic trio who would go on to become known as the Three Stooges....
 (1930) -- for which Sanborn also wrote a song -- he left the group, preferring to concentrate on his music rather than become known as a "Healyite".






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Fred Sanborn (November 11, 1899 – March 9, 1961) was an American vaudeville
Vaudeville

Vaudeville was a genre of a variety show prevalent on the theatre in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. It developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrel show, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque....
 performer, actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, and musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
. He was most notable as a member of Ted Healy
Ted Healy

Ted Healy was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor. He is chiefly remembered today as the original employer of the Three Stooges, but had a successful stage and film career of his own....
'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
Moe Howard

Moe Howard was an United States comedian, best known as the leader of the Three Stooges, the slapstick comedy team who starred in motion pictures and television for four decades....
, Larry Fine
Larry Fine

Larry Fine may be:* Larry Fine , American actor best known for being one of the Three Stooges* Larry Fine , American technician, consultant, and author...
, and Shemp Howard in the Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg

Reuben Garret Lucius Goldberg was an United States cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor who received a 1948 Pulitzer Prize for his Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning....
 film Soup to Nuts
Soup to Nuts

Soup to Nuts is a feature film written by Rube Goldberg and directed by Benjamin Stoloff, which marks the film debut of the comic trio who would go on to become known as the Three Stooges....
 (1930) -- for which Sanborn also wrote a song -- he left the group, preferring to concentrate on his music rather than become known as a "Healyite". 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.