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Kinskey was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1903. He fled the chaos of the Russian Revolution and performed on the stage in both Europe and South America before he started acting in the United States in New York City in 1921. He performed in the road production of Al Jolson's musical, Wonder Bar, before making his first film appearace, in 1932, when was given a small part as a radical in the Ernst Lubitsch's comedy, Trouble in Paradise. A year later, he would play an agitator in the Marx Brothers' comedy, Duck Soup. He would continue to perform in small parts, mostly as foreigners and often in a comedic role, in such films as Les Misérables, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The Garden of Allah, The Big Broadcast of 1938, That Night in Rio, Three Blind Mice, Everything Happens at Night, and

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rdfs:label	Leonid Kinskey
rdfs:comment	Kinskey was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1903. He fled the chaos of the Russian Revolution and performed on the stage in both Europe and South America before he started acting in the United States in New York City in 1921. He performed in the road production of Al Jolson's musical, Wonder Bar, before making his first film appearace, in 1932, when was given a small part as a radical in the Ernst Lubitsch's comedy, Trouble in Paradise. A year later, he would play an agitator in the Marx Brothers' comedy, Duck Soup. He would continue to perform in small parts, mostly as foreigners and often in a comedic role, in such films as Les Misérables, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The Garden of Allah, The Big Broadcast of 1938, That Night in Rio, Three Blind Mice, Everything Happens at Night, and
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abstract	Kinskey was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1903. He fled the chaos of the Russian Revolution and performed on the stage in both Europe and South America before he started acting in the United States in New York City in 1921. He performed in the road production of Al Jolson's musical, Wonder Bar, before making his first film appearace, in 1932, when was given a small part as a radical in the Ernst Lubitsch's comedy, Trouble in Paradise. A year later, he would play an agitator in the Marx Brothers' comedy, Duck Soup. He would continue to perform in small parts, mostly as foreigners and often in a comedic role, in such films as Les Misérables, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The Garden of Allah, The Big Broadcast of 1938, That Night in Rio, Three Blind Mice, Everything Happens at Night, and I Married an Angel. Kinskey's most famous role would be as Sasha, the humorous bartender in Rick's Cafe Americaine in Casablanca. He got the part, instead of the original choice, Leon Mostovoy because he was more humorous than Mostovoy and, based on his own testimony, he was Humphrey Bogart's drinking buddy. During World War II, he was the person in Hollywood who helped to decide which Hollywood films would be sent to the Soviet Union. After the war, he appeared in fewer films, including, Alimony, Nancy Goes to Rio, Gobs and Gals, and The Helen Morgan Story, which was his final movie role. By then, he had started to appear on television, while also writing and directing several industrial films for major corporations. His first television appearance was on The Spike Jones Show. He then appeared on such shows as Peter Gunn, Have Gun – Will Travel, The Jack Benny Program, 77 Sunset Strip, My Favorite Martian, Hogan's Heroes, Batman, and Mayberry R.F.D, with his last acting appearance being on The Chicago Teddy Bears in 1971. He died in 1998 in Fountain Hills, Arizona from a stroke.

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