Leonid Kinskey
Acting
Born 1903-04-18
Died 1998-09-08
Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Leonid Kinskey (April 18, 1903 – September 8, 1998) was a Russian-born movie and television actor who enjoyed a long career. Kinskey is best known for his role as Sascha in the film Casablanca (1942).
Kinskey was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He fled the Russian Revolution and acted on stage in Europe and South America before arriving in New York City in 1921. He joined the road production of Al Jolson's musical Wonder Bar, before making his first film appearance, in the 1932 Trouble in Paradise. His looks and accent helped him land supporting roles in numerous movies, including Duck Soup and Nothing Sacred, and on television, well into the 1960s. It is said that he got perhaps his best-known role, Sascha in Casablanca, because he was a drinking buddy of star Humphrey Bogart. Kinskey was in the pilot episode for Hogan's Heroes, but turned down a regular role in the series because he thought the subject matter was being taken too lightly.
Kinskey was married three times. His second wife was actress Iphigenie Castiglioni, to whom he remained married until her death in 1963. He was married to Tina York from 1983 to his death. He died of complications of a stroke in Fountain Hills, Arizona, at the age of 95.
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Perry Mason
Batman
Hogan's Heroes
Have Gun, Will Travel
Dr. Kildare
Burke's Law
Peter Gunn
Telephone Time
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Casablanca
77 Sunset Strip
Mayberry R.F.D.
The Millionaire
The Detectives
Honey West
Pete and Gladys
Lux Video Theatre
The Alaskans
Good Morning World
Guestward, Ho!
Duck Soup
The Man with the Golden Arm
Ball of Fire
The Fighting Seabees
Trouble in Paradise
El circo
The Talk of the Town
The Helen Morgan Story
Peter Ibbetson
Manhattan Melodrama
Nothing Sacred
Les Misérables
The Merry Widow
The Gilded Lily
Algiers
Three Godfathers
The Great Sinner
Exile Express
The General Died at Dawn
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
I Live My Life
Somewhere I'll Find You
Wise Girl
The Great Waltz
Café Metropole
Presenting Lily Mars
Everything Happens at Night
We Live Again
I Married an Angel
Monte Carlo
Broadway Limited
The Spellbinder
Can't Help Singing
The Road to Glory
Day-time Wife
Monsieur Beaucaire
Rhythm on the Range
So Ends Our Night
That's My Baby!
Down Argentine Way
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