Ludwig Satz (18 February 1891 – 31 August 1944) was an actor in

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and film, best known for his comic roles. A 1925 ''

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'' article singles him out as the greatest Yiddish comic actor of the time. He was born in Lemberg (Lwów),

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). At the age of 18 he formed his own theater company in Galicia; he emigrated to the U.S. in 1912.https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/09/01/86877204.pdf New York Times obituary September 1, 1944 Satz played the male lead in the

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His Wife's Lover ''His Wife's Lover'' (1931, original Yiddish title ''Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik'') was billed as the "first Jewish musical comedy talking picture". A play before it as a film, it was based on Ferenc Molnár's ''The Guardsman''. Ludwig Satz, who also wr ...

'' (''Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik''), which was billed as the "first Jewish

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talking picture".Yiddish Musicals
The National Center for Jewish Film, Brandeis University. Accessed online 12 April 2007. He also played on Broadway, one of his more noted roles being Abe Potash in the 1926 ''Potash and Perlmuter'' of A. H. Woods. He starred in ''A Galitsianer Khasene (A wedding in Galitsia)'' (music by

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, lyrics Boris Rozenthal) with Zina Goldstein and in ''Ven di zun geyt oyf (Sunrise)'' with Ola Lilith. His last role was in ''The Golden Land'' at the Public Theatre in 1943. He died in New York City in 1944 survived by his widow, Lillie; three daughters (Celia, Mimi, and Frances); two brothers, Alexander and Eli, "an actor known professionally as Eli Mintz."

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P-844; American Jewish Historical Society, Boston, MA and New York, NY. 1891 births 1944 deaths American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent Jewish American male actors Ukrainian Jews Yiddish theatre performers Yiddish-language singers 20th-century American male singers 20th-century American singers Austro-Hungarian emigrants to the United States {{theat-bio-stub