Leonid Kinskey
Acting • Born 1903-04-18 – Died 1998-09-08
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
97 credits
Casablanca
Movie • 1943
Sascha
Duck Soup
Movie • 1933
Sylvanian Agitator
The Fighting Seabees
Movie • 1944
Johnny Novasky
The Talk of the Town
Movie • 1942
Jan Pulaski
Café Metropole
Movie • 1937
Artist
Lady for a Night
Movie • 1942
Boris
Ball of Fire
Movie • 1941
Prof. Quintana
Down Argentine Way
Movie • 1940
Tito Acuna
Three Godfathers
Movie • 1936
Card Player (uncredited)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Movie • 1939
Artist
Peter Ibbetson
Movie • 1935
Prisoner (uncredited)
Can't Help Singing
Movie • 1944
Koppa
Gildersleeve on Broadway
Movie • 1943
Window Washer
Day-time Wife
Movie • 1939
Coco Anderson
On Your Toes
Movie • 1939
Ivan Boultonoff
Everything Happens at Night
Movie • 1939
Groder
Wise Girl
Movie • 1937
Eccentric Greenwich Village Writer (uncredited)
Broadway Limited
Movie • 1941
Ivan Ivanski
Alimony
Movie • 1949
Joe Wood
That's My Baby!
Movie • 1944
Doctor Svatsky
Make a Wish
Movie • 1937
Moe
Let's Have Fun
Movie • 1943
Gregory Loosnikoff
Meet the Boy Friend
Movie • 1937
Dr. Sokoloff
Flirting with Fate
Movie • 1938
Pedro Lopez
That Night in Rio
Movie • 1941
Monsieur Pierre Dufond
Three Blind Mice
Movie • 1938
Young Man
The Gilded Lily
Movie • 1935
Vocal Teacher (uncredited)
Manhattan Melodrama
Movie • 1934
Trotskyite Slapping Poppa Rosen
Algiers
Movie • 1938
L'Arbi
Exile Express
Movie • 1939
Lead Henchman David
Outside of Paradise
Movie • 1938
Cafe Owner Ivan Petrovich
Trouble in Paradise
Movie • 1932
Russian Visitor (uncredited)
Somewhere I'll Find You
Movie • 1942
Dorloff, the Waiter
We Live Again
Movie • 1934
Simon Kartinkin
Girl Without a Room
Movie • 1933
Gallopsky
The Great Waltz
Movie • 1938
Dudelman
My Dear Miss Aldrich
Movie • 1937
A Waiter
Change of Heart
Movie • 1934
Party Guest (uncredited)
Storm at Daybreak
Movie • 1933
Serbian Villager (uncredited)
The Big Broadcast
Movie • 1932
Ivan
The Spellbinder
Movie • 1939
Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player
Professor Beware
Movie • 1938
Tableau Director
The Road to Glory
Movie • 1936
Ledoux
The Sheik Steps Out
Movie • 1937
Allusi Ali
Gobs and Gals
Movie • 1952
Ivan
Espionage
Movie • 1937
Maxie Burgos
A Trip to Paris
Movie • 1938
Emile
El circo
Movie • 1943
Cliente ruso zapatero (as L. Kinsky)
The Girl from Scotland Yard
Movie • 1937
Mischa
Cinderella Swings It
Movie • 1943
Vladimir Smitkin
The Great Sinner
Movie • 1949
Bandleader in Park (uncredited)
Candid Cameramaniacs
Movie • 1937
Otto
He Stayed for Breakfast
Movie • 1940
Comrade Nicky
Nothing Sacred
Movie • 1937
Ferdinand Roassare - Poet (uncredited)
Rhythm on the Range
Movie • 1936
Mischa
The Merry Widow
Movie • 1934
Shepherd (uncredited)
Fugitive Road
Movie • 1934
Nicholas Petrovich,- Smuggler
I Live My Life
Movie • 1935
Waiter (Uncredited)
So Ends Our Night
Movie • 1941
The Chicken
We're on the Jury
Movie • 1937
Nicholas Krakin
Brooklyn Orchid
Movie • 1942
Ignatz Rachkowsky
The Man with the Golden Arm
Movie • 1955
Dominiwski
Week-End in Havana
Movie • 1941
Rafael
I Married an Angel
Movie • 1942
Zinski
Honeychile
Movie • 1951
Chick Lister
Presenting Lily Mars
Movie • 1943
Leo
Salute to Stan Laurel
Movie • 1965
Movie director in sketch
Glory
Movie • 1956
Vasily
Bashful Romeo
Movie • 1949
Strictly Dynamite
Movie • 1934
Garçon (uncredited)
The General Died at Dawn
Movie • 1936
Stewart
Les Misérables
Movie • 1935
Genflou
Monsieur Beaucaire
Movie • 1946
Rene
Monte Carlo
Movie • 1930
Opera Chorus Singer (uncredited)
The Helen Morgan Story
Movie • 1957
Stanislausky - Accordion Player (uncredited)
The Woman I Love
Movie • 1937
(uncredited)
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Juan Bagulesco
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Vyacheslav Gerznov
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Woody - Bradwell's Friend
Peter Gunn
TV • 1958
Stashek
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Pete and Gladys
TV • 1960
Good Morning World
TV • 1967
Dr. Crandell
Guestward, Ho!
TV • 1960
The Alaskans
TV • 1959
The Detectives
TV • 1959
Honey West
TV • 1965
Roger / Bogus Conrad Wycherly
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Sam Weiss
Telephone Time
TV • 1956
Hogan's Heroes
TV • 1965
Vladimir Minsk
Mayberry R.F.D.
TV • 1968
Professor Radetsky
Mayberry R.F.D.
TV • 1968
Professor Radetzky
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Yevgeny
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Ferenc Pifnic
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Pete Kramer
Batman
TV • 1966
Professor Overbeck