Leonid Kinskey
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.
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Acting (74 movies)
Casablanca
1943
Duck Soup
1933
The Fighting Seabees
1944
The Talk of the Town
1942
Café Metropole
1937
Lady for a Night
1942
Ball of Fire
1941
Down Argentine Way
1940
Three Godfathers
1936
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939
Peter Ibbetson
1935
Can't Help Singing
1944
Gildersleeve on Broadway
1943
Day-time Wife
1939
On Your Toes
1939
Everything Happens at Night
1939
Wise Girl
1937
Broadway Limited
1941
Alimony
1949
That's My Baby!
1944
Make a Wish
1937
Let's Have Fun
1943
Meet the Boy Friend
1937
Flirting with Fate
1938
That Night in Rio
1941
Three Blind Mice
1938
The Gilded Lily
1935
Manhattan Melodrama
1934
Exile Express
1939
Algiers
1938
Outside of Paradise
1938
Trouble in Paradise
1932
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942
We Live Again
1934
Girl Without a Room
1933
The Great Waltz
1938
My Dear Miss Aldrich
1937
Change of Heart
1934
Storm at Daybreak
1933
The Big Broadcast
1932
The Spellbinder
1939
Professor Beware
1938
The Road to Glory
1936
The Sheik Steps Out
1937
Gobs and Gals
1952
Espionage
1937
A Trip to Paris
1938
El circo
1943
The Girl from Scotland Yard
1937
Cinderella Swings It
1943
The Great Sinner
1949
Candid Cameramaniacs
1937
He Stayed for Breakfast
1940
Nothing Sacred
1937
Rhythm on the Range
1936
The Merry Widow
1934
Fugitive Road
1934
I Live My Life
1935
So Ends Our Night
1941
We're on the Jury
1937
Brooklyn Orchid
1942
The Man with the Golden Arm
1955
Week-End in Havana
1941
I Married an Angel
1942
Honeychile
1951
Presenting Lily Mars
1943
Glory
1956
Bashful Romeo
1949
Strictly Dynamite
1934
The General Died at Dawn
1936
Les Misérables
1935
Monsieur Beaucaire
1946
Monte Carlo
1930
The Helen Morgan Story
1957
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