People
Leo Fuchs
Biography:
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Leo Fuchs (May 15, 1911 — December 31, 1994) was a Polish-born Jewish American actor. According to YIVO, born Avrum Leib Fuchs in Warsaw; according to Schechter, born in Lemberg, Galicia, then Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine).
Fuchs performed in many Yiddish and English plays and movies throughout the mid-twentieth century, and was famed as a comic, a dancer, and a coupletist. He wrote much of his own material and toured widely.
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Movies:
Title | Release date |
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Avalon as Hymie Krichinsky | 1990-10-05 |
The Frisco Kid as Chief Rabbi | 1979-07-06 |
Awake and Sing! as Jacob | 1972-06-03 |
The Story of Ruth as Sochin | 1960-06-17 |
American Matchmaker as Nat Silver / Uncle Shya | 1940-01-02 |
I Want to be a Boarder as Chaim | 1937-06-30 |