The Larry Kert Fan Page
Did You Know?
  • Larry Kert at the age of 12 was the stunt double for Roddy McDowall in Lassie Comes Home (1943),
  • He was also a stunt double in two 1944 films -Nothing But Trouble and Song of Russia.
  • Larry was also a gymnast as well as an expert horse rider.
  • He appeared in 1,214 performances of West Side Story before leaving to promote his record "Larry Kert Sings Leonard Bernstein".
  • "Larry Kert Sings Leonard Bernstein" included songs from 'West Side Story', 'On The Town' and 'Wonderful Town'.
  • Before "Larry Kert Sings Leonard Bernstein" Larry recorded "Larry Kert Sings" described as "an ecclectic selection of calypso songs."
  • On May 21, 1989 Larry Kert was part of the cast of Nymph Errant by Cole Porter.  The cast recorded the show live at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London in aid of charity.
  • The playbill for the 1963 hit 'I Can Get It For You Wholesale', in which Larry Kert starred says "As a teenager he worked at breaking wild horses to saddle-- which led to a teen-age career as a stunt man, stand-in, and extra in well-nigh 100 films"
Newspaper Announcements

The Stage - Thursday 06 January 1972 Company
American 'Company' THE AMERICAN musical. Company," opens at Her Majesty's on January 18 [1972], presented by Harold Prince and Richard Pilbrow, with Larry Kert and Elaine Stritch heading the cast of this transplant from Broadway to the Haymarket. Harold Prince is responsible for the direction, Stephen Sondheim for the music and lyrics, George Furth for the book.

Birmingham Daily Post - Thursday 20 January 1972
Comment on "Company".
Larry Kert sophisticated New York world as the quiet bachelor, and with Boris' Aronson's Elaine Stritch as one of the lift-swishing set more ferocious.