Finkel, Fyvush, 1922-2016
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Brownsville (New York, N.Y.)
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Actors
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found: Brighton Beach memoirs, 1986:credits (Fyvush Finkel)
found: IMDB, Mar. 25, 2003(b. 9 October 1923 in Brooklyn, NY; Fyvush is Yiddish for Philip, a name he used in school; stage, film, and TV actor)
found: New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 15, 2016(in obituary published Aug. 14: Fyvush Finkel; b. Philip Finkel, Oct. 9, 1922, Brownsville, Brooklyn; by 1931, he was appearing in Yiddish shows and had taken the first name Fyvush; d. Sunday [Aug. 14, 2016], Manhattan, aged 93; his homespun moniker and putty face were comic statements all their own that helped him become a mainstay of what remained of Yiddish entertainment; later crossed over into the television mainstream as the cantankerous lawyer on the 1990s series Picket fences)
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2003-03-25: new
2016-08-15: revised
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