Buloff, Joseph
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Buloff, Joseph (1899–1985), character actor and director. He was born in Wilno, Lithuania, and as a young man joined the Vilna Troupe, which toured across Europe. Buloff immigrated to America in 1928 and acted in Yiddish theatres in Chicago and New York, later founding the New York Art Theatre. He first performed in English in 1936 and gave such fondly remembered performances as peddler Ali Hakim in the original
Oklahoma! (1943), various colorful Russian characters in
A Chekhov Sketchbook (1962), and the old furniture dealer Gregory Solomon in the 1979 and 1982 revivals of
The Price. Buloff spent much of the 1950s and 1960s directing and acting in plays in Israel. Autobiography:
On Stage, Off Stage: Memories of a Lifetime in the Yiddish Theatre, with Luba Kadison and Irving Genn, 1992.
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