Leonid Kinskey

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1903-04-18 (95 years old)

Deathday

1998-09-08

Place of Birth

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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 th...

Acting

1943

Casablanca

as Sascha

1933

Duck Soup

as Sylvanian Agitator

1944

The Fighting Seabees

as Johnny Novasky

1942

The Talk of the Town

as Jan Pulaski

1937

1942

1941

Ball of Fire

as Prof. Quintana

1940

Down Argentine Way

as Tito Acuna

1936

Three Godfathers

as Card Player (uncredited)

1935

Peter Ibbetson

as Prisoner (uncredited)

1944

1943

Gildersleeve on Broadway

as Window Washer

1939

Day-time Wife

as Coco Anderson

1939

On Your Toes

as Ivan Boultonoff

1937

Wise Girl

as Eccentric Greenwich Village Writer (uncredited)

1941

Broadway Limited

as Ivan Ivanski

1949

Alimony

as Joe Wood

1944

That's My Baby!

as Doctor Svatsky

1937

1943

Let's Have Fun

as Gregory Loosnikoff

1937

Meet the Boy Friend

as Dr. Sokoloff

1938

Flirting with Fate

as Pedro Lopez

1941

That Night in Rio

as Monsieur Pierre Dufond

1938

Three Blind Mice

as Young Man

1935

The Gilded Lily

as Vocal Teacher (uncredited)

1934

Manhattan Melodrama

as Trotskyite Slapping Poppa Rosen

1938

Algiers

as L'Arbi

1939

1938

Outside of Paradise

as Cafe Owner Ivan Petrovich

1932

Trouble in Paradise

as Russian Visitor (uncredited)

1942

Somewhere I'll Find You

as Dorloff, the Waiter

1934

We Live Again

as Simon Kartinkin

1933

1938

The Great Waltz

as Dudelman

1937

1934

Change of Heart

as Party Guest (uncredited)

1933

Storm at Daybreak

as Serbian Villager (uncredited)

1939

The Spellbinder

as Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player

1938

Professor Beware

as Tableau Director

1936

1937

The Sheik Steps Out

as Allusi Ali

1952

1937

Espionage

as Maxie Burgos

1938

1943

El circo

as Cliente ruso zapatero (as L. Kinsky)

1943

Cinderella Swings It

as Vladimir Smitkin

1949

The Great Sinner

as Bandleader in Park (uncredited)

1940

He Stayed for Breakfast

as Comrade Nicky

1937

Nothing Sacred

as Ferdinand Roassare - Poet (uncredited)

1936

1934

The Merry Widow

as Shepherd (uncredited)

1934

Fugitive Road

as Nicholas Petrovich,- Smuggler

1935

I Live My Life

as Waiter (Uncredited)

1941

So Ends Our Night

as The Chicken

1937

We're on the Jury

as Nicholas Krakin

1942

Brooklyn Orchid

as Ignatz Rachkowsky

1941

1942

1951

Honeychile

as Chick Lister

1965

Salute to Stan Laurel

as Movie director in sketch

1956

Glory

as Vasily

1934

Strictly Dynamite

as Garçon (uncredited)

1935

Les Misérables

as Genflou

1930

Monte Carlo

as Opera Chorus Singer (uncredited)

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