Leo Fuchs

Leo Fuchs ( born May 15, 1911 as Abraham Leon Springer Fuchs in Warsaw, General Warsaw, Russian Empire, † December 31, 1994 in Los Angeles ) was a Polish- American film actor. He was known as Yiddish Fred Astaire and played as a singing and dancing comedian in many Yiddish plays and musicals on Broadway and in Yiddish films.

Life and work

Leo Fuchs was born into a Yiddish theater family in Warsaw. His father, character actor in the Yiddish theater, died at the age of 40, his mother, musical singer and actress, was murdered in the Holocaust. Leo Fuchs began in the 30s of the Warsaw Yiddish theaters in comedies occur. Before long, he got an offer of a Yiddish theater in New York, where he starred as a trained violinist in musicals. Soon he was also approached to participate in Yiddish films. Among the comical short film I wishes to be a boarder (I want to be a boarder ) (1937) and the long-playing comedy Shadchen Americans (American Matchmaker ) ( 1940).

After the war he joined a few times in the Yiddish theaters of London. The Alexander Theatre was previously located in a large venue with 1,500 seats, but had trouble filling the ranks. Therefore Stars were ordered from New York. Fox, who was now known as Yiddish Fred Astaire, due to its stylish appearance, style of acting, singing and dancing curious arts, performed as The Galitzianer Cowboy and filled the theater for several weeks. Similar happened in the 50s, when he appeared at London's Grand Palais - together with his wife Rebecca Richman, whom he had married in the meantime. One last time he was in the 60s a game season in London, in The Great Waltz at the Theatre Royal.

From the 50s he played up in the 80s into numerous, produced in Los Angeles, television series, and occasionally in movies with.

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