Leo Fuchs

Nacimiento : 1911-05-15, Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]

Muerte : 1994-12-31

Historia

​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.

Películas

Avalon
Avalon
Hymie Krichinsky
Narra la vida de Sam Krichinsky (Armin Mueller-Stahl), un inmigrante judío de origen polaco llegado a Baltimore (Estados Unidos) a principios del siglo XX. Él y sus hermanos encontraron trabajo, se casaron y tuvieron hijos. Su principal objetivo era mantener a la familia reunida.
El rabino y el pistolero
El rabino y el pistolero
Chief Rabbi
En 1850, durante un accidentado viaje a San Francisco, donde debe ponerse al frente de una sinagoga, el rabino polaco Belinski entabla amistad con un atracador empedernido, pero acabará sufriendo una profunda crisis espiritual cuando, para salvarlo, se vea obligado a matar a un hombre.
Awake and Sing!
Awake and Sing!
Jacob
The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets' pungent play. Personalities and politics clash as Odets' mélange of characters try to survive on pennies a day. Walter Matthau plays cynical World War I amputee Moe Axelrod, and Leo Fuchs portrays the family's iron-willed leftist grandfather.
La historia de Ruth
La historia de Ruth
Sochin
Basada en el Antiguo Testamento. La hermosa Ruth (Elana Eden) fue vendida, siendo una niña, a unos seguidores del dios moabita Quemos. Siendo ya una jovencita, se conmueve profundamente ante el sufrimiento de un esclavo judío (Tom Tryon); entonces, decidida a renegar de la idolatría, lo libera y traba amistad con su madre (Peggy Wood). Un hecho trágico lleva a las dos mujeres a emprender un difícil viaje hasta Jerusalén. Allí Ruth conoce a Boaz (Stuart Whitman) y se enamora de él. El problema es que ella ya está comprometida con otro hombre, de modo que debe valerse de su ingenio, de su valor y de su nueva fe para resolver el conflicto y hallar la paz.
American Matchmaker
American Matchmaker
Nat Silver / Uncle Shya
Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he's really going to get married. But a visitor shows up, Shirley's old boyfriend. With a gun ! He'll kill himself unless he can have Shirley back, and Nat graciously gives in. According to Nat's mother, his Uncle Shya was unlucky at love but lucky as a matchmaker, and Nat is just like Shya. Nat tells his family he's going to Italy. But he remains in New York and sets himself up with a new name and new business, Nat Gold, Advisor in Human Relations...
I Want to be a Boarder
I Want to be a Boarder
Chaim
A lively short about a husband and wife who seek to reignite their marriage by pretending to be landlady and tenant.