Bernard Sauer

Bernard Sauer (1924 — February 13, 1991) was an American stage actor, most prominently starring in Yiddish theater during the 1960s and 70s.

Sauer was born into a family of six in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and studied acting there before making his theatrical debut in the 1945 play, Yoshke, the Musician directed by Joseph Buloff. By the mid-1960s, Sauer had begun appearing on Broadway where he co-starred with Ben Bonus in the 1966 play Let's Sing Yiddish. He went on to appear in Sing Israel Sing (1967) and Light, Lively and Yiddish (1970).{{citation |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7D61631F936A25751C0A967958260 |title=Bernard Sauer, Actor, 67 |work=New York Times |date=February 15, 1991 |page=D16 |edition=New York}}{{citation |url=http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=102737 |title=Bernard Sauer |publisher=Internet Broadway Database (IBDB)}}

In 1971, he toured with a Yiddish repertory company performing at the Anderson Theater in Manhattan. Sauer went into semi-retirement during the 1980s, although he worked behind the scenes on the 1985 musical "A Match Made in Heaven".{{citation |url=http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9E0DE1DF1438F932A35752C1A963948260 |title=Yiddish Musical, 'Match Made in Heaven' |last=Shepard |first=Richard F. |date=November 1, 1985 |work=New York Times}} He served as a board member of the Yiddish Theatrical Alliance as well as the president of the Hebrew Actors' Union from 1986 until his death. He died in New York from a heart attack on February 13, 1991, aged 67.