Leonid Kinskey

Leonid KINSKEY: b. 18 April 1903, St. Petersburg - d. 8 Sept 1998, Fountain Hills, Arizona

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Leonid Kinskey (18 April 1903 – 8 September 1998) was a Russian-born film and television actor who enjoyed a long career. Kinskey is best known for his role as Sascha in the film Casablanca (1942).[1]

Life and career 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 Trouble in Paradise (1932).[1] His looks and accent helped him gain supporting roles in numerous films, including Duck Soup (1933) and Nothing Sacred (1937). He told Aljean Harmetz, author of Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca, that he was cast in his best-known role, Sascha in Casablanca, because he was a drinking buddy of star Humphrey Bogart.[1] He replaced Leo Mostovoy[2] because the latter was deemed not funny enough.[1] Kinskey continued to appear on television, well into the 1960s and was in the pilot episode of Hogan's Heroes (1965).

Kinskey 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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Obituary: Leonid Kinskey - Arts and Entertainment - The Independent

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" Kinskey married his late wife Iphigenia Castiglioni four times. "It started in Mexico City," said Kinskey, "and then over 20 years of our happy marriage we celebrated every five years by taking a new marriage licence in a different country." Castiglioni, a Viennese beauty who died in 1963, was also in movies - she played Empress Eugenie in both The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) and Maytime (1937) and was the Bird Woman in Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954)."