Leonid Kinskey
Born: 1903-04-18 in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: 1998-09-08
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1968
- Mayberry R.F.D. as Professor Radetsky
1967
- Good Morning World as Dr. Crandell
1966
- Batman as Professor Overbeck
1965
- Hogan's Heroes as Vladimir Minsk
- Honey West as Roger / Bogus Conrad Wycherly
- Salute to Stan Laurel as Movie director in sketch
1964
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Ferenc Pifnic
1963
- Burke's Law as Juan Bagulesco
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Sam Weiss
1958
- Peter Gunn as Stashek
- 77 Sunset Strip as Pete Kramer
1957
- Perry Mason as Vyacheslav Gerznov
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- The Helen Morgan Story as Stanislausky - Accordion Player (uncredited)
1956
- Telephone Time
- Glory as Vasily
1955
- The Millionaire as Woody - Bradwell's Friend
- The Man with the Golden Arm as Dominiwski
1952
- Gobs and Gals as Ivan
1951
- Honeychile as Chick Lister
1950
1949
- The Great Sinner as Bandleader in Park (uncredited)
- Alimony as Joe Wood
- Bashful Romeo
1946
- Monsieur Beaucaire as Rene
1944
- The Fighting Seabees as Johnny Novasky
- Can't Help Singing as Koppa
- That's My Baby! as Doctor Svatsky
1943
- Casablanca as Sascha
- The Circus as Cliente ruso zapatero (as L. Kinsky)
- Presenting Lily Mars as Leo
- Let's Have Fun as Gregory Loosnikoff
- Gildersleeve on Broadway as Window Washer
- Cinderella Swings It as Vladimir Smitkin
1942
- The Talk of the Town as Jan Pulaski
- Lady for a Night as Boris
- I Married an Angel as Zinski
- Somewhere I'll Find You as Dorloff, the Waiter
- Brooklyn Orchid as Ignatz Rachkowsky
1941
- Ball of Fire as Prof. Quintana
- That Night in Rio as Monsieur Pierre Dufond
- So Ends Our Night as The Chicken
- Week-End in Havana as Rafael
- Broadway Limited as Ivan Ivanski
1940
- Down Argentine Way as Tito Acuna
- He Stayed for Breakfast as Comrade Nicky
1939
- The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle as Artist
- Everything Happens at Night as Groder
- On Your Toes as Ivan Boultonoff
- Day-time Wife as Coco Anderson
- Exile Express as Lead Henchman David
- The Spellbinder as Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player
1938
- The Great Waltz as Dudelman
- Algiers as L'Arbi
- Professor Beware as Tableau Director
- A Trip to Paris as Emile
- Three Blind Mice as Young Man
- Outside of Paradise as Cafe Owner Ivan Petrovich
- Flirting with Fate as Pedro Lopez
1937
- Nothing Sacred as Ferdinand Roassare - Poet (uncredited)
- The Woman I Love as (uncredited)
- Meet the Boy Friend as Dr. Sokoloff
- My Dear Miss Aldrich as A Waiter
- Wise Girl as Eccentric Greenwich Village Writer (uncredited)
- The Girl from Scotland Yard as Mischa
- Café Metropole as Artist
- We're on the Jury as Nicholas Krakin
- The Sheik Steps Out as Allusi Ali
- Make a Wish as Moe
- Espionage as Maxie Burgos
- Candid Cameramaniacs as Otto
1936
- The General Died at Dawn as Stewart
- Three Godfathers as Card Player (uncredited)
- The Road to Glory as Ledoux
- Rhythm on the Range as Mischa
1935
- Peter Ibbetson as Prisoner (uncredited)
- Les Misérables as Genflou
- The Gilded Lily as Vocal Teacher (uncredited)
- I Live My Life as Waiter (Uncredited)
1934
- The Merry Widow as Shepherd (uncredited)
- Manhattan Melodrama as Trotskyite Slapping Poppa Rosen
- Change of Heart as Party Guest (uncredited)
- We Live Again as Simon Kartinkin
- Fugitive Road as Nicholas Petrovich,- Smuggler
- Strictly Dynamite as Garçon (uncredited)
1933
- Duck Soup as Sylvanian Agitator
- Girl Without a Room as Gallopsky
- Storm at Daybreak as Serbian Villager (uncredited)
1932
- Trouble in Paradise as Russian Visitor (uncredited)
- The Big Broadcast as Ivan
1930
- Monte Carlo as Opera Chorus Singer (uncredited)