Leo Fuchs

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1911-05-15 (83 years old)

Deathday

1994-12-31

Place of Birth

Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]

Leo Fuchs

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.

Acting

1960

1990

Avalon

as Hymie Krichinsky

1979

The Frisco Kid

as Chief Rabbi

1940

American Matchmaker

as Nat Silver / Uncle Shya

1972

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