Acting
Leo Fuchs
EN, YI cinema · 7 credits
Born
15 May 1911
Died
31 December 1994 (aged 83)
Birthplace
Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dee Leo Fuchs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
Vaudeville
as Self (archive footage)
Avalon
as Hymie Krichinsky
The Frisco Kid
as Chief Rabbi
Awake and Sing!
as Jacob
The Story of Ruth
as Sochin
American Matchmaker
as Nat Silver / Uncle Shya