Leo Fuchs
Actor
- Born
- May 15, 1911 · Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]
- Died
- December 31, 1994 (age 83)
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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).
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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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Known for
Acting7
- 1997Vaudeville as Self (archive footage)
- 1990Avalon as Hymie Krichinsky
- 1979The Frisco Kid as Chief Rabbi
- 1972Awake and Sing! as Jacob
- 1960The Story of Ruth as Sochin
- 1940American Matchmaker as Nat Silver / Uncle Shya
- 1937I Want to be a Boarder as Chaim