Leonid Kinskey
4/18/1903
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leonid Kinskey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Leonid Kinskey
Appeared In:
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Casablanca
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Duck Soup
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The Fighting Seabees
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The Talk of the Town
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Café Metropole
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Lady for a Night
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Ball of Fire
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Down Argentine Way
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Three Godfathers
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
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Peter Ibbetson
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Can't Help Singing
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Gildersleeve on Broadway
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Day-time Wife
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On Your Toes
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Everything Happens at Night
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Wise Girl
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Broadway Limited
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Alimony
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That's My Baby!
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Make a Wish
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Let's Have Fun
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Meet the Boy Friend
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Flirting with Fate
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That Night in Rio
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Three Blind Mice
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The Gilded Lily
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Manhattan Melodrama
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Algiers
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Exile Express
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Outside of Paradise
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Trouble in Paradise
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Somewhere I'll Find You
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We Live Again
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Girl Without a Room
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The Great Waltz
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My Dear Miss Aldrich
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Change of Heart
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Storm at Daybreak
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The Big Broadcast
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The Spellbinder
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Professor Beware
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The Road to Glory
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The Sheik Steps Out
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Gobs and Gals
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Espionage
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A Trip to Paris
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El circo
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The Girl from Scotland Yard
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Cinderella Swings It
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The Great Sinner
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Candid Cameramaniacs
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He Stayed for Breakfast
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Nothing Sacred
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Rhythm on the Range
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The Merry Widow
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Fugitive Road
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I Live My Life
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So Ends Our Night
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We're on the Jury
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Brooklyn Orchid
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The Man with the Golden Arm
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Week-End in Havana
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I Married an Angel
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Honeychile
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Presenting Lily Mars
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Salute to Stan Laurel
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Glory
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Bashful Romeo
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Strictly Dynamite
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The General Died at Dawn
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Les Misérables