Leo Fuchs
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1911-05-15
Day of Death
1994-12-31 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]
Leo Fuchs
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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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Known For
Acting
(1990)
Avalon
as Hymie Krichinsky
(1979)
The Frisco Kid
as Chief Rabbi
(1972)
Awake and Sing!
as Jacob
(1960)
The Story of Ruth
as Sochin
(1940)
American Matchmaker
as Nat Silver / Uncle Shya
(1937)
I Want to be a Boarder
as Chaim