Leon Liebgold

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Leon Liebgold (born July 31, 1910 in Krakow , † September 3, 1993 in New Hope , Pennsylvania ) was a Polish actor of Jewish origin.

Life

Leon Liebgold was born as the son of the actor couple Solomon Liebgold and Basia Liebgold . He began his career in the Yiddish theater in Poland, where he also met his wife Lili Liliana . After shooting the film The Dybbuk , he and his wife went on a world tour with the cabaret group "Di yidishe bande" in 1937. The two stayed in the United States of America after the outbreak of World War II . While his wife in theaters in Detroit and Chicago played, Leon Liebgold served in the US Army in the12th Armored Division in Europe as a sergeant . At the end of the war in 1945, Leon Liebgold managed to find his brother Jan Liebgold ("Yonek") , who had remained in Poland , and to enable him to enter the USA.

After the war he played for many years in various Yiddish theaters in the USA, including the Folksbiene Theater . In the late 1970s he was President of the Hebrew Actors' Union in Manhattan .

Leon Liebgold is buried next to his wife in Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing , Queens .

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A Biography of Robert Granville Caldwell, Jr. ( Memento of May 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/L/liliana-lili.htm  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.museumoffamilyhistory.com  
  3. ^ Obituary to Leon Liebgold, nytimes.com, September 11, 1993 , accessed June 5, 2012
  4. ↑ Faces & Places Archives ( Memento from November 25, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Leon Liebgold in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved September 1, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Liebgold, Leon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1993
Place of death New Hope , Pennsylvania