Budd Nathan Fine (September 10, 1894 – February 9, 1966) was an American character actor of the silent and sound film eras.

[1] During the silent film era, he would make mostly shorts, with only a handful of appearances in feature films, including Buster Keaton's Battling Butler (1926),[2] and as a soldier in the Cecil B.

[3] With the advent of the talking picture, Fine began to work steadily in feature films.

He would have small roles in many notable films, such as: the first talking version of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1931's A Connecticut Yankee, starring Will Rogers; Les Misérables in 1935, starring Fredric March and Charles Laughton;[4] Anything Goes (1936), starring Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman;[5] William Dieterle's 1939 version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Charles Laughton;[6] the Cary Grant and Jean Arthur vehicle, Only Angels Have Wings, directed by Howard Hawks;[7] another Grant film in 1943, also starring Laraine Day, Mr. Lucky;[8] the classic film noir, Lady in the Lake (1947), starring Robert Montgomery;[9] the 1947 Bob Hope comedy, also starring Dorothy Lamour, My Favorite Brunette;.

[10] The 1950s would see Fine reunite with De Mille, on his epic film, Samson and Delilah (1950), starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr;[11] he would also appear that year in the musical, Annie Get Your Gun, starring Betty Hutton and Howard Keel.