Leo Fuchs

Schauspieler

1911-05-15 – 1994-12-31 · 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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• Ein Rabbi im Wilden Westen (1979) — Chief Rabbi
• Avalon (1990) — Hymie Krichinsky
• Das Buch Ruth (1960) — Sochin
• Americaner Shadchen (1940) — Nat Silver / Uncle Shya
• Awake and Sing! (1972) — Jacob