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Leo Fuchs

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

Morte : 1994-12-31

História

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.

Filmes

Avalon

Hymie Krichinsky

Uma família polonesa imigra para os Estados Unidos no começo do século 20 tentando construir um futuro melhor. Depois de um começo difícil, acompanham as transformações do país, tornando-se prósperos comerciantes em meio ao sonho americano.

O Rabino e o Pistoleiro

Chief Rabbi

Rabino polonês desembarca na América com o objetivo de chegar ao Velho Oeste e fundar uma sinagoga em São Francisco. Mas durante o caminho ele vai enfrentar muitos perigos, como praticamente ser queimado vivo por tribo de índios ou quase ser morto por um bando de foras-da-lei.

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.

A História de Rute

Sochin

Ruth foi vendida quando criança a um grupo pagão e idolatrada como uma sacerdotisa. Ao crescer, conhece o hebreu Mahlon e é tocada por sua crença, mas o destino a obriga a embarcar em uma árdua jornada rumo a Jerusalém.

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

Chaim

A lively short about a husband and wife who seek to reignite their marriage by pretending to be landlady and tenant.