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name: "Manny Fried"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/manny-fried"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 March 1913"
died: "25 February 2011"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:18:12.574464+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Manny Fried

Actor. Born 1 March 1913 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. Died 25 February 2011.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 March 1913, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 25 February 2011

## Biography

Manny Fried (1913–2011) was an American actor, playwright and union organiser. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he appeared on Broadway under the stage name Edward Mann before moving to Buffalo, where he performed extensively on local stages and wrote more than two dozen plays, including *Drop Hammer* and *The Dodo Bird*.

Fried taught literature at Buffalo State College from 1973. His sole screen credit was as the Donut Clerk in Vincent Gallo's *Buffalo '66* (1998). He died in Buffalo, New York.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, thenation.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Buffalo '66* (1998), Fi1m 77, as The Donut Clerk — [page](https://film.one/film/buffalo-66.md)

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