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- Birth nameHugo David Weisgall
- Hugo Weisgall was born on October 13, 1912 in Eibenschütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Ivancice, Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Without a Trace (1983). He died on March 11, 1997 in Long Island, New York, USA.
- American composer, conductor and singer of Czech birth, son of Adolph Joseph Weisgal, a composer of synagogue music (1885-1981). Hugo Weisgall's family emigrated to the USA in 1920, settling in Baltimore; he became a naturalized American citizen in 1926. He wrote his dissertation on primitivism in 17th-century German poetry (Ph.D. in 1940 from Johns Hopkins University).
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