He made four Yiddish films that he shot on location in Poland,[4] beginning in 1935: Yidl mitn fidl (Yiddle with his Fiddle; 1935), Der Purimspiler (The Jester; 1937), Mamele (Little Mother; 1938),[2] and A brivele der mamen (A Little Letter to Mother; 1939).
[1] In 1915, during the First World War, he trained at the drama school of German theater director Walter Wassermann, who was then heading the Deutsches Theater in Lodz, and in 1916 he made his debut as an actor with the Lodz-based amateur troupe of Zalmen Zylbercweig.
Also in 1932 he provided the Yiddish-language dubbing for the silent Italian film Joseph in the Land of Egypt.
[2] He died of emphysema at the age of 96 in Great Neck, Long Island, New York.
Green was interviewed in the 1985 British documentary on Yiddish Films, Almonds and Raisins.