Fyvush Finkel in a Serious Man | 2009
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Fyvush Finkel in a Serious Man | 2009
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind and Fred Melamed
Directed by: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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Philip “Fyvush” Finkel (born October 9, 1922) is an American actor best known as a star of Yiddish theater and for his role as lawyer Douglas Wambaugh on the television series Picket Fences, for which he earned an Emmy Award in 1994. He is also known for his portrayal of Harvey Lipschultz, a crotchety U.S. history teacher, on the TV series Boston Public. Finkel was born at home in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York City, the third of four sons of Jewish immigrant tailor Harry Finkel, from Warsaw, Poland, and housewife Mary, from Minsk, then part of Russia. Born Philip Finkel, with no middle name, he adopted the stage name "Fyvush," a common Yiddish given name. Finkel first appeared on the stage at age 9, and acted for almost 35 years in the thriving Yiddish theaters of Manhattan's Lower East Side, as well as performing as a standup comic in the Catskill's Borscht Belt. In 2008 he recalled that, He worked regularly until the ethnic venues began dying out in the early 1960s,...
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