| LC control no. | no2003029098 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Finkel, Fyvush, 1922-2016 |
| Variant(s) | Finkel, Philip, 1922-2016 |
| Birth date | 1922-10-09 |
| Death date | 2016-08-14 |
| Place of birth | Brownsville (New York, N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
| Profession or occupation | Actors |
| Found in | Brighton Beach memoirs, 1986: credits (Fyvush Finkel) 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) 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) |
| Associated language | eng yid |
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