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Leo Fuchs

Leo Fuchs

Born: 1911-05-15 • Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]

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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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Filmography
Avalon poster
Avalon
1990 • Hymie Krichinsky
The Frisco Kid poster
The Frisco Kid
1979 • Chief Rabbi
Awake and Sing! poster
Awake and Sing!
1972 • Jacob
The Story of Ruth poster
The Story of Ruth
1960 • Sochin
American Matchmaker poster
American Matchmaker
1940 • Nat Silver / Uncle Shya
No Image
I Want to be a Boarder
1937 • Chaim