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.''New York Times'' obituary
1 September 1944. He played the male lead in the

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film '' His Wife's Lover'' (''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 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 Herman Wohl, 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 ( Feinman, daughter of actress Dinah Stettin); three daughters (Celia, Mimi, and Frances); two brothers, Alexander and Eli, the last "an actor known professionally as Eli Mintz".

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Papers of Ludwig Satz, pg. 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 Jewish Ukrainian musicians Yiddish theatre performers Yiddish-language singers of Ukraine Yiddish-language singers of the United States 20th-century American male singers 20th-century American singers Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States Actors from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Jews from Austria-Hungary Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe) {{theat-bio-stub