Fyvush Finkel, the actor who won an Emmy Award for his performance as lawyer Douglas Wambaugh on "Picket Fences," died Aug. 14, 2016. He was 93. Born Philip Finkel Oct. 9, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York, he was the son of Jewish immigrants, a Polish father and Belarusian mother. He began acting as a child, working onstage in New York's Yiddish theaters. But in high school, he considered breaking out of the business and began studying to become a furrier instead. The call of the stage proved too strong, however, and Finkel was back at it after he graduated, performing stand-up comedy on the Catskills' borscht circuit as well as continuing his stage acting. He made the move to Broadway in the 1960s, appearing in "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Little Shop of Horrors."
