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Maurice Moscovitch was born in the former Russian Empire in Odessa.
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Maurice Moscovitch
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He emigrated to the United States of America not later than 1897 and performed for decades in the Yiddish theatre in New York and appeared in two 1930 Broadway plays. In the last four years of his life, Moscovitch played supporting roles in 14 films. With his distinctive accent, he mostly portrayed wise, friendly, often Jewish old mentor
He played a shopkeeper in the highly praised and the art dealer Maurice Cobert in Love Affair with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer.
Maurice Moskovitch died at the age of 68, following surgery. At the time of his death, he was playing the role of a dancing master in Dance, Girl, Dance.
His role had to be quickly rewritten for actress Maria Ouspenskaya. Moscovitch"s son Noel Madison (1897-1975) was also a character actor.
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