Larry

I am an American actor, writer, producer and film director from Brooklyn, New York. I graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park (Class of 1970) with a degree in history. I'm a former standup comedian, and was a cast member for ABC's Fridays television series from 1980 to 1982. A couple of years later, I became a writer for NBC's Saturday Night Live from 1984 to 1985. My time with the show was not quite as successful as I would have liked, though. Through the entire season as writer, I only got one sketch included in the show, and it was the last sketch of the night (where the weaker sketches are usually scheduled).In 1989, I teamed up with comedian Jerry Seinfeld to create The Seinfeld Chronicles for NBC. The show was later retitled simply Seinfeld and became one of the most successful shows in television history. I appeared on the show many times as minor characters, including the voice of George Costanza's boss, George Steinbrenner. I was the primary inspiration for the character of George Costanza on Seinfeld. I left Seinfeld, on amicable terms, after the seventh season. However, I returned to write the series finale in 1998.Following my work on Seinfeld, I wrote and directed a film called Sour Grapes . The movie was met with low box-office ticket sales, and did not fare much better critically, when it opened in 1998.In 2000, I started my own show for the HBO cable television channel, entitled Curb Your Enthusiasm, which used a unique improvisational acting style and revisits many of the same themes first brought up in Seinfeld.