Leo Fuchs

Leo Fuchs

Birthday: 1911-05-15

Place of Birth: Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]

Biography: ​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.

Movies

The Story of Ruth
The Story of Ruth

Ruth is one of two Moabite women who marry the sons of Elimelech and Naomi. When Elimelech and sons ...

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Avalon
Avalon

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the famil...

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The Frisco Kid
The Frisco Kid

Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congreg...

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American Matchmaker
American Matchmaker

Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he's really going to get married. B...

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Awake and Sing!
Awake and Sing!

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depress...

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I Want to be a Boarder
I Want to be a Boarder

A lively short about a husband and wife who seek to reignite their marriage by pretending to be land...

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