Leo Fuchs
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 15, 1911, Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]
- Died
- December 31, 1994
- Movies
- 7
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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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1997 | Vaudeville | Self (archive footage) |
| 1990 | Avalon | Hymie Krichinsky |
| 1979 | The Frisco Kid | Chief Rabbi |
| 1972 | Awake and Sing! | Jacob |
| 1960 | The Story of Ruth | Sochin |
| 1940 | American Matchmaker | Nat Silver / Uncle Shya |
| 1937 | I Want to be a Boarder | Chaim |
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