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Larry Storch

American actor (1923–2022)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Lawrence Samuel Storch was an American actor and comedian known for his comic television roles, including voice-over work for cartoon shows such as Mr. Whoopee on Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales. For his potrayal of the bumbling Corporal Randolph Agarn on F Troop he was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1967.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Larry Storch” is american actor (1923–2022). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Larry, Storch and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Larry, Storch and American is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1967.

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This entry incorporates text from “Larry Storch” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.