Career
He is best known for his roles in the Yiddish films The Dybbuk (1937) and Tevya (1939). Aside from working in his youth as a vaudeville performer and actor on stages in Poland, Liebgold gained fame by acting in several Yiddish language films including Yidl Mitn Fidl (1936) and The Dybbuk. Liebgold served in the United States Army as a sergeant during World World War II, and then performed as a stage actor in Yiddish theatres in America for decades, including the Folksbiene Theater.
In the late 1970s, he once served as president of the Hebrew Actors" Union in Manhattan, New New York
Liebgold possessed both a resonant and fine melodic, cantorial-type voice which embellished both his speaking and singing on stage. The name Liebgold literally translates from German or Yiddish into "love gold."
He is buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery.