Leonid Kinskey

Known for ActingBorn 1903-04-18Died 1998-09-08Saint Petersburg, Russia

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Let's Have Fun

Cinderella Swings It

Candid Cameramaniacs

Salute to Stan Laurel

Casablanca

Bashful Romeo

He Stayed for Breakfast

Perry Mason

El circo

Hogan's Heroes

Flirting with Fate

Honeychile

Batman

Honey West

Have Gun, Will Travel

Ball of Fire

The Man with the Golden Arm

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Talk of the Town

Trouble in Paradise

77 Sunset Strip

Duck Soup

Café Metropole

Gildersleeve on Broadway

Gobs and Gals

Wise Girl

Les Misérables

Week-End in Havana

The Big Broadcast

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

Manhattan Melodrama

Exile Express

Outside of Paradise

Espionage

The Woman I Love

Peter Ibbetson

Three Godfathers

The Detectives

The Great Sinner

The Alaskans

Peter Gunn

Lux Video Theatre

Good Morning World

We Live Again

The Merry Widow

Guestward, Ho!

Brooklyn Orchid

Telephone Time