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Leo Fuchs
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<p>Leo Fuchs (May 15, 1911 – December 31, 1994) was a <a href="/facts/Poland/eXJ7fd0D">Polish</a>-born <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">American</a> actor. According to YIVO, he was born Avrum Leib Fuchs in Warsaw; according to Joel Schechter, he was born in <a href="/facts/Lw%25C3%25B3w/R1U4V6mY">Lwów</a>, Galicia, then Poland, now called <a href="/facts/Lviv/R1U4V6mY">Lviv</a>, Ukraine. </p><p>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 <a href="/facts/Coupletist/699e14xp">coupletist</a>. He wrote much of his own material and toured widely. </p>