Baruch Lumet (''Burech Lumet''; 16 September 1898 – 8 February 1992) was an American actor best known for his work in the

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Early life

Lumet was born in Warsaw, then part of

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, to a

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-speaking

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family. He immigrated to the United States from Poland with his wife Eugenia Gitl Lumet (née Wermus) and daughter Felicia (1920–1980) in 1922, where his son, film director

Sidney Lumet Sidney Arthur Lumet ( ; June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American film director. He was nominated five times for the Academy Award: four for Best Director for ''12 Angry Men'' (1957), ''Dog Day Afternoon'' (1975), ''Network'' (1976), ...

(1924–2011), was born.

Career

Although he appeared with his son in the film '' ...One Third of a Nation...'' in 1939, the elder Lumet made few film appearances, though he played character roles in two of Sidney's films from the 1960s, ''

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'' (1964) and ''

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'' (1966). He also appeared in

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's comedy '' Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask'', improbably cast as an elderly rabbi with a bondage fetish. From 1953 to 1960, Lumet was the director of the Dallas Institute of Performing Arts and the Knox Street Theater in Dallas.Finding Aid for the Baruch Lumet Papers, 1955-1983
Online Archive of California. Retrieved 2018-10-31. Among his students were

Jayne Mansfield Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American actress, singer, nightclub entertainer, and ''Playboy'' Playmate. A sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s while under contract at 20th Century Fox, Man ...

and

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Filmography

Sources

Finding Aid for the Baruch Lumet Papers, 1955-1983

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lumet, Baruch 1898 births 1992 deaths American people of Polish-Jewish descent Jewish American male actors Jewish Polish male actors Polish emigrants to the United States Baruch Male actors from Warsaw Yiddish theatre performers 20th-century American Jews