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Leo Fuchs

Acting Born May 15, 1911 Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine] 17 credits

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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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Full filmography

  • Green Acres (1965)
  • The Six Million Dollar Man (1974) as Dr. Avni
  • Climax! (1954) as Moe
  • Mister Ed (1961)
  • The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) as Self
  • thirtysomething (1987)
  • Sanford and Son (1972)
  • December Bride (1954)
  • The Story of Ruth (1960) as Sochin
  • Valentine's Day (1964)
  • Peter Loves Mary (1960)
  • Avalon (1990) as Hymie Krichinsky
  • The Frisco Kid (1979) as Chief Rabbi
  • Vaudeville (1997) as Self (archive footage)
  • Awake and Sing! (1972) as Jacob
  • American Matchmaker (1940) as Nat Silver / Uncle Shya
  • I Want to be a Boarder (1937) as Chaim