Born March 22, 1920· Gródek Jagiellonski, Lwowskie, Poland [now Horodok, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine]
† Died July 3, 1981
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Emerging from a Polish-Jewish family that settled in the Bronx after immigrating to New York as an infant, he earned a magna cum laude degree at City College and a law degree from the National University School of Law before turning to performance. A versatile talent, he partnered with Bernie West in comedy, appeared on radio and early television, debuted on Broadway in Hazel Flagg (1953), and ent…
