# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fyvush-finkel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:08:15.935Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fyvush-finkel"
name: "Fyvush Finkel"
slug: "fyvush-finkel"
description: "Philip \"Fyvush\" Finkel was an American actor and director known as a star of Yiddish theater and for his role as lawyer Douglas Wambaugh on the television series Picket Fences, for which he earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 1994. He is also known for his portrayal of Harvey Lipschultz, a crotchety history teacher, on the television series Boston Public."
tagline: "American actor (1922-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fyvush_Finkel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1922-10-09"
deathDate: "2016-08-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.282522996057819
  historical:           20.47657733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump