Baruch Lumet

Actor

Male

Born Sep 16, 1898

Hometown Warsaw

Died Feb 8, 1992

Baruch Lumet was a Jewish actor best known for his work in the Yiddish theater. Lumet was born in Warsaw, Russian Empire, and immigrated to the United States with his wife Eugenia Gitl Lumet (née Wermus) and daughter Feiga in 1922, where his son, film… Read More

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Baruch Lumet

d.1992

children

Sidney Lumet
Son, d.2011

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Mázliember Sidney Lumet Emlékére Gondola.Hu
Google News - May 25, 2011

Apja, Baruch Lumet, aki maga is színész, producer és rendező, már elég korán bevezeti a kis Sidney-t a színház varázslatos világába s hamar kiderül, örökölte apja tehetségét, úgyhogy miután átköltöztek New York-ba, azonnal beíratják a Professional
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Sidney Lumet, 1924 2011; A Director Of Classics, Focused On Conscience
NYTimes - Apr 10, 2011

Sidney Lumet, a director who preferred the streets of New York to the back lots of Hollywood and whose stories of conscience -- ''12 Angry Men,'' ''Serpico,'' ''Dog Day Afternoon,'' ''The Verdict,'' ''Network'' -- became modern American film classics, died Saturday morning at his home in Manhattan. He was 86. His stepdaughter, Leslie Gimbel, said
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Critic's Choice: New Dvd's
NYTimes - Aug 08, 2006

The Jayne Mansfield Collection ''Anatomy is destiny,'' Freud wrote, and although he apparently did not have Jayne Mansfield in mind (having died 17 years before she had her first major part in a movie), he really should have. It was Mansfield's anatomy that made her a star -- she claimed a 41-inch bust line and a 22-inch waist, though some scholars
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After Paying The Price, Reaping The Joy
NYTimes - Mar 16, 1997

RICHARD NIXON. Walt Whitman. Carlo Ponti. No, it's not ''Celebrity Jeopardy,'' just three of the hundreds of roles the versatile Rip Torn has played in his tumultuous 42-year acting career. Yes, tumultuous. Mr. Torn's personal celebrity jeopardy has gone like this: married for 27 years to the legendary actress Geraldine Page, whose fame he never
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1898 Birth Born on September 16, 1898.

TWENTIES

1922 23 Years Old Lumet was born in Warsaw, Russian Empire, and immigrated to the United States with his wife Eugenia Gitl Lumet (née Wermus) and daughter Feiga in 1922, where his son, film director Sidney Lumet (1924-2011) was born.

FORTIES

1939 40 Years Old Although he appeared alongside 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, The Pawnbroker (1964), and The Group (1966). … Read More

FIFTIES

1953 54 Years Old From 1953 to 1960, Lumet was the director of the Dallas Institute of Performing Arts and the Knox Street Theater in Dallas. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

1992 93 Years Old Died on February 8, 1992.

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