Leo Fuchs
Born: 1911-05-15
Birthplace: Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]
Biography
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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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Known For
Avalon
The Story of Ruth
The Frisco Kid
Awake and Sing!
American Matchmaker
Vaudeville
I Want to be a Boarder
Top Movie Credits
Avalon
Hymie Krichinsky
The Story of Ruth
Sochin
The Frisco Kid
Chief Rabbi
Awake and Sing!
Jacob
American Matchmaker
Nat Silver / Uncle Shya
Vaudeville
Self (archive footage)
I Want to be a Boarder
Chaim