Baruch Lumet "The Pawnbroker" (1964) and "The Group" (1966). He also appeared in Woody Allen's comedy "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask", improbably cast as an elderly rabbi with a bondage fetish. From 1953 to 1960, Lumet was the director of the Dallas Institute of Performing Arts and the Knox Street Theater in Dallas. Among his students there were Jayne Mansfield and Tobe Hooper. Baruch Lumet Baruch Lumet ("Burech Lumet"; 16 September 1898 – 8 February 1992) was a Polish Jewish actor best known for his work in the Yiddish theatre. Lumet was born in
Woody Allen and Run" in 1969, which received positive reviews. He later signed a deal with United Artists to produce several films. Those films eventually became "Bananas" (1971, co-written with Rose), "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*" (1972), "Sleeper" (1973), and "Love and Death" (1975). "Sleeper" was the first of four screenplays co-written by Allen and Marshall Brickman. In 1972, Allen wrote and starred in the film version of "Play It Again, Sam", directed by Herbert Ross and co-starring Diane Keaton. In 1976, he starred as cashier Howard Prince, in "The Front," directed by Martin Ritt. "The Front" was a