Actor
Leo Fuchs
Born May 15, 1911 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]Died December 31, 19946 films
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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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First watchThe Story of Ruth19607.5as SochinRuth is one of two Moabite women who marry the sons of Elimelech and Naomi. When Elimelech and sons Mahlon and Chillion die, leaving Naomi a widow with two widowed daughters-in-law, Naomi…View filmEssential films
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6 films as actor- 1990AvalonHymie Krichinsky
- 1979The Frisco KidChief Rabbi
- 1972Awake and Sing!Jacob
- 1960The Story of RuthSochin
- 1940American MatchmakerNat Silver / Uncle Shya
- 1937I Want to be a BoarderChaim