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Leo Fuchs

Leo Fuchs

​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

Avalon
Avalon
1990 • Hymie Krichinsky
The Frisco Kid
The Frisco Kid
1979 • Chief Rabbi
Awake and Sing!
Awake and Sing!
1972 • Jacob
The Story of Ruth
The Story of Ruth
1960 • Sochin
American Matchmaker
American Matchmaker
1940 • Nat Silver / Uncle Shya
I Want to be a Boarder
1937 • Chaim

Full filmography

Avalon
Avalon
1990 • Hymie Krichinsky
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The Frisco Kid
The Frisco Kid
1979 • Chief Rabbi
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American Matchmaker
American Matchmaker
1940 • Nat Silver / Uncle Shya
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Leo Fuchs – Biography, Known For & Filmography