Acting
Community Rating
6.7
TMDB estimate
Born
June 18, 1889
Died
May 10, 1960 (age 70)
Born in
Sedikov, Ukraine
Maurice Schwartz, born Avram Moishe Schwartz (June 18, 1890 – May 10, 1960), born in the Volhynia province of Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), was a stage and film actor active in the United States. He founded the Yiddish Art Theatre and its associated school in 1918 in New York City and was its theatrical producer and director. He also worked in Hollywood, mostly as an actor in silent films but also as a film director, producer, and screenwriter. With his successes as an actor, Schwartz was also drawn to Hollywood, appearing in his first silent film in 1910. He appeared in more than twenty films between 1910 and 1953; the majority were silents. He also wrote, produced, or directed several films. Among his major roles in motion pictures were in Broken Hearts (1926), Uncle Moses (1932), Tevya (1939), Mission to Moscow (1943), and as Ezra in the Biblical drama Salome (1953).

All in Good Fun
as Archive Footage
1955

Slaves of Babylon
as The Prophet Daniel
1953

Salome
as Ezra the King's Advisor
1953

Bird of Paradise
as The Kahuna
1951

Mission to Moscow
as Dr. Botkin
1943

Tevye
as Tevya 'Tevye', Director, Writer, Producer
1939

The Man Behind the Mask
as The Master
1936

Uncle Moses
as Uncle Moses, Writer
1932

Broken Hearts
as Benjamin Rezanov, Director
1926
Yizkor
as Leybke
1924
Little Moritz se fait les muscles
as Little Moritz
1911