Leo Fuchs

Leo Fuchs

1911-05-15 – 1994-12-31 (age 83) Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]
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Biography

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Leo Fuchs (May 15, 1911 β€” 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

Avalon
Avalon

1990

as Hymie Krichinsky

The Story of Ruth
The Story of Ruth

1960

as Sochin

The Frisco Kid
The Frisco Kid

1979

as Chief Rabbi

American Matchmaker
American Matchmaker

1940

as Nat Silver / Uncle Shya

Awake and Sing!
Awake and Sing!

1972

as Jacob

Vaudeville
Vaudeville

1997

as Self (archive footage)

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