Leo Fuchs
Actor, Film actor
1911 – 1994
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Who was Leo Fuchs?
Leo Fuchs was a Polish-born Jewish American actor. According to YIVO, born Avrum Leib Fuchs in Warsaw; according to Schechter, born in Lwów, 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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- Born
- May 15, 1911
Lviv - Also known as
- Abraham Leon Springer Fuchs
- The Yiddish Fred Astaire
- Avrum Leib Fuchs
- Parents
- Spouses
- Mirele Gruber
(1936 - 1941) - Rebecca Richman
- Mirele Gruber
- Nationality
- Poland
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Dec 31, 1994
Los Angeles - Resting place
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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