Joseph Buloff
{{Short description|Lithuanian-born American actor and director (1899–1985)}}
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| name = Joseph Buloff
| image = Joseph Buloff (1960 still).JPG
| caption = Buloff in 1960
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|12|06|mf=y}}{{cite news |title=Joseph Buloff |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/301868665 |access-date=December 5, 2020 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=March 1, 1985 |page=30|id={{ProQuest|301868665}} }}
| birth_place = Vilna, Lithuania, Russian Empire
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1985|02|27|1899|12|06}}{{cite web|last=Berger|first=Joseph|title=Joseph Buloff, an Actor, Dies; Mainstay of Yiddish Theater|date=February 28, 1985|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/28/arts/joseph-buloff-an-actor-dies-mainstay-of-yiddish-theater.html|access-date=November 25, 2017}}
| death_place = Manhattan, New York, U.S.
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| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1923–1981
| spouse = {{marriage|Luba Kadison|1925}}{{cite news |last1=Howe |first1=Irving |title=The Art of Joseph Buloff |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/111268500 |access-date=December 5, 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=March 31, 1985 |page=H 4|id={{ProQuest|111268500}} }}
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Joseph Buloff (December 6, 1899 – February 27, 1985) was a Jewish actor and director known for his work in Broadway and Yiddish theatre. He received the Itzik Manger Prize for contributions to Yiddish letters in 1974.
Life and career
Buloff was born on December 6, 1899, in Vilna, in what was then the Russian Empire and is now Lithuania.
Buloff debuted on stage with the Jewish State Theatre in Vilna.{{cite news |last1=Schack |first1=William |title=Introducing Joseph Buloff of Russia |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/98685965 |access-date=December 5, 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=November 23, 1930 |page=112|id={{ProQuest|98685965}} }} He joined the Vilna Troupe when he was a teenager, and "his first major success" came in that company's production of Day and Night by S. Ansky. While with the troupe, he also met Luba Kadison, whom he married and remained with until his death six decades later. They had a daughter, Barbara.
Buloff immigrated to the United States in 1927 and worked with Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish theatre company. Buloff and Kadison toured Europe and the Western Hemisphere in the early 1930s, acting with Yiddish troupes in the countries that they visited. Their productions included adaptations of works by Dostoevski and Tolstoy and translated versions of works by Chekhov, Molière, and Pirandello.
Broadway productions in which Buloff appeared included The Price (1979), The Fifth Season (1975), The Wall (1960), Moonbirds (1959), Once More, With Feeling (1958), Mrs. McThing (1952), The Whole World Over (1947), Oklahoma! (1943), Spring Again (1941), My Sister Eileen (1940), Morning Star (1940), The Man from Cairo (1938), To Quito and Back (1937), Call Me Ziggy (1937), and Don't Look Now (1936).{{cite web |title=Joseph Buloff |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/joseph-buloff-14313 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=December 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201205212307/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/joseph-buloff-14313 |archive-date=December 5, 2020}}
On February 27, 1985, Buloff died at his Manhattan home, aged 86. He left a memoir, written in Yiddish, which was translated by Joseph Singer and published by Harvard University Press in 1991 as From the Old Marketplace.{{cite magazine |last1=Wisse |first1=Ruth R. |title=The Survivor's Voice – From the Old Marketplace by Joseph Buloff and translated by Joseph Singer |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/212851966 |access-date=December 5, 2020 |magazine=The New Republic |date=June 24, 1991 |page=40|id={{ProQuest|212851966}} }}
Legacy
Some of Buloff's papers are preserved at YIVO{{cite web|title=Guide to the Papers of Joseph Buloff (1899–1985) and Luba Kadison (1906–2006)|first1=Solomon|last1=Rabinowitz|first2=Rachel S.|last2=Harrison|date=2009|publisher=YIVO Institute for Jewish Research|url=https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/resources/3534|access-date=May 28, 2020}} and at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.{{cite web|first=Liavon|last=Yurevich|title=Joseph Buloff papers|publisher=New York Public Library|url=http://archives.nypl.org/the/21798|access-date=November 25, 2017}}
Filmography
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| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | Let's Make Music | Joe Bellah | |
| 1941 | They Met in Argentina | Santiago, O'Shea's Trainer | |
| 1947 | Carnegie Hall | Anton Tribik | |
| 1948 | To the Victor | Bolyanov | |
| 1948 | The Loves of Carmen | Remendado | |
| 1949 | A Kiss in the Dark | Peter Danilo | |
| 1950 | Monticello, Here We Come | ||
| 1956 | Somebody Up There Likes Me | Benny | |
| 1957 | Silk Stockings | Ivanov | |
| 1981 | Reds | Joe Volski |
References
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External links
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- {{IBDB name|id=14313|name=Joseph Buloff}}
- {{IMDb name|id=0120233}}
- [http://archives.nypl.org/the/21798 Joseph Buloff papers, 1925–1993], held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDexfDKPujQ Joseph Buloff's Acting] from the Yiddish Book Center
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti2YAWXDCEQ Performing alongside Joseph Buloff in "Yoshke Muzikant"] from the Yiddish Book Center
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Category:20th-century American male actors
Category:20th-century Lithuanian male actors
Category:American male film actors
Category:American male stage actors
Category:American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
Category:Jewish American male actors
Category:Lithuanian emigrants to the United States
Category:Lithuanian male film actors