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- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Menasha Skulnik was born on May 15, 1890 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for The United States Steel Hour (1953), Monticello, Here We Come (1950) and Menasha the Magnificent (1950). He was married to Sarah Kutner and Anna Roman (actress). He died on June 4, 1970 in New York City, New York, USA.
- SpousesSarah Kutner(1913 - 1943) (her death, 1 child)Anna Roman (actress)(? - June 4, 1970) (his death, 1 child)
- One of the legendary talents of the Yiddish theater, Menasha Skulnik also appeared in several Broadway shows, most notably in Clifford Odets' "The Flowering Peach" and Harold Rome's "The Zulu and the Zayda," winning a Tony award for Best Actor in a Musical for the latter in 1964. He died in 1970 at the age of eighty.
- Buried in Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, Queens, New York.
- Ran away at 13 to join the circus.
- Seventh of nine children.
- After his first wife Sarah died in 1943 he moved with his child to 69-39 Yellowstone Blvd in Forest Hills, Queens, New York.
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