Leonid Kinskey

Born: 1903-04-18

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.


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Casablanca

as Sascha
Released: 1943-01-15

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover,...

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Duck Soup

as Sylvanian Agitator
Released: 1933-11-12

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on...

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Trouble in Paradise

as Russian Visitor (uncredited)
Released: 1932-10-30

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume...

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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

as Artist
Released: 1939-03-29

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few...

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Manhattan Melodrama

as Trotskyite Slapping Poppa Rosen
Released: 1934-05-04

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law...

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Broadway Limited

as Ivan Ivanski
Released: 1941-06-13

A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one...

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The Talk of the Town

as Jan Pulaski
Released: 1942-08-20

Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood...

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The Man with the Golden Arm

as Dominiwski
Released: 1955-12-26

A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction. Preserved by the Academy Film...

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Ball of Fire

as Prof. Quintana
Released: 1941-12-02

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia....

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The Merry Widow

as Shepherd (uncredited)
Released: 1934-11-02

A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.

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Les Misérables

as Genflou
Released: 1935-04-20

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a...

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Nothing Sacred

as Ferdinand Roassare - Poet (uncredited)
Released: 1937-11-25

When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing...

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Peter Ibbetson

as Prisoner (uncredited)
Released: 1935-11-07

When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to...

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Down Argentine Way

as Tito Acuna
Released: 1940-10-11

The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an...

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Café Metropole

as Artist
Released: 1937-04-28

An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.

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I Married an Angel

as Zinski
Released: 1942-07-09

A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from...

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I Live My Life

as Waiter (Uncredited)
Released: 1935-10-04

A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

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Glory

as Vasily
Released: 1956-01-11

A lovesick girl and her grandfather groom their filly for the Kentucky Derby.

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Algiers

as L'Arbi
Released: 1938-01-16

Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a...

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The Great Waltz

as Dudelman
Released: 1938-11-04

Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.

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Presenting Lily Mars

as Leo
Released: 1943-04-29

Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a...

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That Night in Rio

as Monsieur Pierre Dufond
Released: 1941-04-11

An entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to...

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El circo

as Cliente ruso zapatero (as L. Kinsky)
Released: 1943-03-12

A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the...

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Somewhere I'll Find You

as Dorloff, the Waiter
Released: 1942-08-27

Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far...

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Strictly Dynamite

as Garçon (uncredited)
Released: 1934-05-11

A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.

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The General Died at Dawn

as Stewart
Released: 1936-11-17

China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American...

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Three Blind Mice

as Young Man
Released: 1938-06-18

Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich...

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The Spellbinder

as Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player
Released: 1939-07-28

Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending...

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Espionage

as Maxie Burgos
Released: 1937-02-26

Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the...

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Rhythm on the Range

as Mischa
Released: 1936-07-01

Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he...

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Day-time Wife

as Coco Anderson
Released: 1939-11-24

When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary,...

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Girl Without a Room

as Gallopsky
Released: 1933-12-08

A Tennessee art school student wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he...

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Three Godfathers

as Card Player (uncredited)
Released: 1936-03-06

In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the...

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Change of Heart

as Party Guest
Released: 1934-05-18

Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college...

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He Stayed for Breakfast

as Comrade Nicky
Released: 1940-08-31

Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy...

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The Fighting Seabees

as Johnny Novasky
Released: 1944-01-27

Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the...

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The Gilded Lily

as Vocal Teacher (uncredited)
Released: 1935-01-25

Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her...

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The Great Sinner

as Bandleader in Park (uncredited)
Released: 1949-06-29

A young man succumbs to gambling fever.

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Wise Girl

as Eccentric Greenwich Village Writer (uncredited)
Released: 1937-12-31

Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with...

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Exile Express

as David
Released: 1939-05-27

A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.

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We Live Again

as Simon Kartinkin
Released: 1934-11-01

Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial,...

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On Your Toes

as Ivan Boultonoff
Released: 1939-10-14

A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.

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Flirting with Fate

as Pedro Lopez
Released: 1938-12-02

A troupe of traveling entertainers become stranded in Paraguay.

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My Dear Miss Aldrich

as A Waiter
Released: 1937-09-17

A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.

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Professor Beware

as Tableau Director
Released: 1938-07-29

Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to...

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Brooklyn Orchid

as Ignatz Rachkowsky
Released: 1942-01-31

Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.

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Alimony

as Joe Wood
Released: 1949-06-11

A promising young composer is tempted away from his devoted wife by a fortune-seeking woman who...

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Storm at Daybreak

as Serbian Villager (uncredited)
Released: 1933-06-14

Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the...

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Honeychile

as Chick Lister
Released: 1951-10-20

A music publishing company tries to swindle a song from a country girl that they inadvertently...

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The Road to Glory

as Ledoux
Released: 1936-09-04

The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are...

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Make a Wish

as Moe
Released: 1937-09-01

While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer...

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So Ends Our Night

as The Chicken
Released: 1941-02-27

An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's...

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We're on the Jury

as Nicholas Krakin
Released: 1937-02-12

A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.

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The Big Broadcast

as Ivan
Released: 1932-10-14

The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention...

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Lady for a Night

as Boris
Released: 1942-01-05

Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry...

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Outside of Paradise

as Cafe Owner Ivan Petrovich
Released: 1938-02-08

Daniel Francis O'Toole, singing maestro in a New York restaurant, finds himself the unexpected...

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A Trip to Paris

as Emile
Released: 1938-05-06

The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma...

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The Girl from Scotland Yard

as Mischa
Released: 1937-05-30

A female agent tacks down the cause of mysterious explosions.

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Everything Happens at Night

as Groder
Released: 1939-12-22

Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.

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That's My Baby!

as Doctor Svatsky
Released: 1944-09-14

A love triangle occurs between the publisher's daughter Betty Moody. comic book artist Tim...

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Week-End in Havana

as Rafael
Released: 1941-10-17

A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships...

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Fugitive Road

as Nicholas Petrovich,- Smuggler
Released: 1934-08-22

An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he...

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Can't Help Singing

as Koppa
Released: 1944-12-25

With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young...

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Gildersleeve on Broadway

as Window Washer
Released: 1943-10-28

On a trip to New York, a small-town blowhard gets caught between a wealthy widow and a gold digger.

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Meet the Boy Friend

as Dr. Sokoloff
Released: 1937-07-12

A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as "America's Boyfriend" decides to wed a Swedish...

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Cinderella Swings It

as Vladimir Smitkin
Released: 1943-01-22

Scattergood Baines, Coldriver's most popular citizen, neighborly counselor and sly old fox,...

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Candid Cameramaniacs

as Otto
Released: 1937-12-11

Short comedic subject on the history of photography from the daguerrotype to modern amateur...

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Let's Have Fun

as Gregory Loosnikoff
Released: 1943-03-04

When a musical star discovers her leading man is married, she quits the show and takes its...

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Perry Mason

as Vyacheslav Gerznov
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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Batman

as Professor Overbeck
First aired: 1966-01-12

Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually...

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Hogan's Heroes

as Vladimir Minsk
First aired: 1965-09-17

Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17,...

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Dr. Kildare

as Sam Weiss
First aired: 1961-09-27

The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession,...

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Have Gun, Will Travel

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-09-14

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957...

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Have Gun, Will Travel

as Yevgeny
First aired: 1957-09-14

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957...

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Burke's Law

as Juan Bagulesco
First aired: 1963-09-20

Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on...

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Peter Gunn

as Stashek
First aired: 1958-09-22

Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and...

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Honey West

as Roger / Bogus Conrad Wycherly
First aired: 1965-09-17

After her father's death, Honey West takes over his high-tech private-detective firm, assisted...

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The Millionaire

as Woody - Bradwell's Friend
First aired: 1955-01-19

An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better...

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77 Sunset Strip

as Pete Kramer
First aired: 1958-10-10

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this...

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The Detectives

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-10-16

The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons,...

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

as Ferenc Pifnic
First aired: 1964-09-22

Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the...

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Mayberry R.F.D.

as Professor Radetsky
First aired: 1968-09-23

Mayberry R.F.D. is an American television series produced as a spin-off and direct continuation...

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Mayberry R.F.D.

as Professor Radetzky
First aired: 1968-09-23

Mayberry R.F.D. is an American television series produced as a spin-off and direct continuation...

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Telephone Time

as uncredited
First aired: 1956-04-08

Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from...

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Pete and Gladys

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-09-19

Pete and Gladys is an American situation comedy television series starring Harry Morgan and Cara...

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The Alaskans

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-10-04

The Alaskans is a 1959-1960 ABC/Warner Brothers western television series set during the late...

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Good Morning World

as Dr. Crandell
First aired: 1967-09-05

In this flirty '60s sitcom, the action unfolds every day at a small Los Angeles radio station...

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Guestward, Ho!

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-09-29

Guestward, Ho! is an American situation comedy which aired on the ABC network in the 1960-1961...

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