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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. Fuchs was born into a Yiddish theatrical family: his father, Yakov Fuchs, was a character actor; his mother, Ruzha Fuchs, was "a leading lady of the musical theatre... MORE

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. Fuchs was born into a Yiddish theatrical family: his father, Yakov Fuchs, was a character actor; his mother, Ruzha Fuchs, was "a leading lady of the musical theatre who perished in the Holocaust." He began acting (in Polish) when he was five years old, and was praised when he performed at the Warsaw cabaret Qui Pro Quo when he was 17. His American debut was at the Second Avenue Theater in Lucky Boy with Moishe Oysher in 1929. He moved to New York City in 1935, In his prime, he was known as "The Yiddish Fred Astaire", appearing both on Broadway and in film. In 1936, he married fellow actor Mirele Gruber and toured with her through Poland for a year next year. In 1937 he made two movies, the short I want to be a boarder (in which he sang his famous song Trouble) LESS