Leonid Kinskey
Nascimento : 1903-04-18, St. Petersburg, Russia
Morte : 1998-09-08
História
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.
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Movie director in sketch
A program featuring original comedy skits written as a tribute to Stan Laurel.
Vasily
A lovesick girl and her grandfather groom their filly for the Kentucky Derby.
Dominiwski
Um jogador que sonha em se tornar baterista de uma banda de jazz sai da prisão e retorna à sua cidade. Enquanto tenta se livrar da dependência das drogas e administra a complicada relação com sua esposa inválida, também se envolve com uma bela mulher, que lhe empresta o apartamento para praticar música.
Chick Lister
A music publishing company tries to swindle a song from a country girl that they inadvertently recorded without her permission.
Slim gets a job as a door-to-door salesman but soon winds up, through a case of mistaken identity, as the target of a very jealous husband.
Joe Wood
A promising young composer is tempted away from his devoted wife by a fortune-seeking woman who cares more for his prospects than for him.
Koppa
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
Doctor Svatsky
A love triangle occurs between the publisher's daughter Betty Moody. comic book artist Tim Jones, and the company's wily manipulative manager Hilton Payne. In addition, Betty's dad, Phineas Moody suffers from severe melancholy; and an emergency cure of laughter is required to save his health.
Johnny Novasky
Na WW2 no Pacífico trabalhadores da construção civil são necessários para construir instalações militares, mas o trabalho é perigoso e eles duvidam da capacidade da Marinha para protegê-los. Depois de uma série de ataques por parte dos japoneses algo novo é tentado, os Batalhões de Construção, em inglês Construction Battalions (CBs = Seabees) Abelhas do Mar. O novo batalhão tem tanto que construir quanto estar pronto para lutar.
Window Washer
On a trip to New York, a small-town blowhard gets caught between a wealthy widow and a gold digger.
Leo
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
Cliente ruso zapatero (as L. Kinsky)
Nesta versão de O Circo (1928), de Chaplin, Cantinflas é um sapateiro que consegue emprego em um circo como zelador, recomendado pela bela garota piloto do espetáculo. Mas mais tarde, Cantinflas entra em apuros quando ele intervém em atos perigosos, como o trapézio. Obviamente, nosso amigo arriscará sua vida pelo amor de sua nova namorada.
Vladimir Smitkin
Scattergood Baines, Coldriver's most popular citizen, neighborly counselor and sly old fox, entices a Broadway producer to Coldriver to see the gay musical extravaganza Baines is staging for the benefit of the U.S.O. He is also promoting the singing career of his latest local protégé, Betty Palmer. There are a few problems but the Sage of Coldriver manages to keep pulling the right strings.
Sascha
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, muitos fugitivos tentavam escapar dos nazistas por uma rota que passava pela cidade de Casablanca. O exilado americano Rick Blaine encontrou refúgio na cidade, dirigindo uma das principais casas noturnas da região. Clandestinamente, tentando despistar o Capitão Renault, ele ajuda refugiados, possibilitando que eles fujam para os Estados Unidos. Quando um casal pede sua ajuda para deixar o país, ele reencontra uma grande paixão do passado, a bela Ilsa. Este amor vai encontrar uma nova vida e eles vão lutar para fugir juntos.
Dorloff, the Waiter
Brothers feud over a girl they both fall for while covering World War II.
Jan Pulaski
When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson and accidental murder. Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley... which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap.
Zinski
A playboy drops his many girlfriends when he falls in love with a grounded angel.
Ignatz Rachkowsky
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
Boris
A operadora de barcos Jenny Blake manipula seu namorado Jack Morgan para se casar com a alta sociedade. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Prof. Quintana
Oito professores estão voltados exclusivamente para a elaboração de um enciclopédia. Nenhum deles é casado, pois acredita-se que ter uma família pode ser prejudicial para o andamento dos trabalhos. Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper), o mais novo dos professores, tem como função preparar a parte de literatura inglesa e quer incluir no seu trabalho as mais variadas formas de gíria. Assim anda entre a população fazendo anotações e encontra em Sugarpuss O'Shea (Barbara Stanwyck), uma sexy cantora de boate, uma fonte inesgotável de termos popularescos. Inicialmente ela não colabora, mas ela namora um gângster, Joe Lilac (Dana Andrews), que foi solto por falta de provas. A Promotoria pretende detê-la para interrogatório até conseguir provas contra Joe, então O'Shea tem a idéia de se hospedar na casa onde os professores estão reunidos, usando o pretexto de que vai colaborar na enciclopédia, pois a polícia não a procurará em uma casa habitada por intelectuais.
Rafael
O navio Cuban Queen encalha próximo da costa da Flórida. Walter McCracken (George Barbier), o dono da companhia ordena que o jovem executivo Jay Williams (John Payne) vá para lá (apesar de faltarem poucos dias para seu casamento com Terry (Cobina Wright), filha de Walter), e convença os passageiros a embarcarem em outro navio e a assinarem uma renúncia que exima a companhia de culpa. Todos assinam com exceção de Nan Spencer (Alice Faye), que concorda em ir para Havana de avião mas só assina se as suas férias forem agradáveis e totalmente pagas pela companhia de navegação. Assim Jay vai com Nan para Havana, na intenção de garantir que tudo corra bem. Jay pensa que tudo está resolvido e que pode voltar para Nova York, mas Nan diz que só assinará no final das suas férias de duas semanas se ela tiver se divertido bastante. Isto obriga Jay a remarcar o casamento, mas Nan não se diverte, apesar de estar sendo bem tratada, pois quer romance. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Ivan Ivanski
A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought in for it.
Monsieur Pierre Dufond
No Rio de Janeiro o barão Manuel Duarte (Don Ameche), um mulherengo, se encontra em sérias dificuldades financeiras. Ele precisa viajar até Buenos Aires para tentar conseguir um empréstimo. Para não haver nenhuma suspeita do que o barão está fazendo, seus sócios contratam Larry Martin (Don Ameche), um ator que é muito parecido com o barão. A baronesa Cecilia Duarte (Alice Faye) fica sabendo da história, mas até ela fica na dúvida de quem é quem, pois o barão resolveu o assunto mais rápido do que esperava mas finge ter voltado só no dia seguinte, deixando Cecilia toda confusa.
The Chicken
An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
Tito Acuna
Uma garota americana em férias na Argentina se apaixona por um rico proprietário de cavalos de corrida.
Comrade Nicky
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.
Groder
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
Coco Anderson
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
Ivan Boultonoff
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
Harry Beldon, Saxophone Player
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?
David
A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
Artist
Vernon Castle é um ator cômico se segunda categoria. Ele conhece Irene Castle em uma praia de Nova Jersey. Os dois logo se apaixonam e se casam. Após muito insistir, Irene convence Vernon a desistir da comédia para começarem uma nova carreira como bailarinos. A agente Maggie Sutton descobre o talento do casal e Vernon e Irene atingem o sucesso. Mas quando estão no auge da fama, inicia-se a 1ª Guerra Mundial.
Pedro Lopez
A troupe of traveling entertainers become stranded in Paraguay.
Dudelman
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
Tableau Director
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Young Man
Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her staff.
Emile
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.
Cafe Owner Ivan Petrovich
Daniel Francis O'Toole, singing maestro in a New York restaurant, finds himself the unexpected heir to an estate in Ireland. He doesn't have money enough for the passage to Ireland, but the band members decide to incorporate him, advancing him the fare for equal shares in the estate. In Ireland, Danny finds that his is only a half-share, and the other half belongs to Mavourneen Kerrigan and she has the exclusive right to sell or keep the property...which, despite his pleas, she refuses to do. She also declares him an undesired guest, objects to his presence and insists that he prepare his own meals. He does so in a large main hall, but can only make hamburgers.
L'Arbi
Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture are met with unfazed local detectives, led by Inspector Slimane, who are biding their time. Meanwhile, Pepe meets the beautiful Gaby, which arouses the jealousy of Ines.
Eccentric Greenwich Village Writer (uncredited)
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life is fun and free of the constraints her country-club life places on her. But she decides to take the uncle to court anyway to free him from the kids so he can paint.
Otto
Short comedic subject on the history of photography from the daguerrotype to modern amateur photographers.
Ferdinand Roassare - Poet (uncredited)
Os jornais informam que Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard) sofre de uma doença incurável. Wally Cook (Fredric March), um jornalista de Nova York passa a investigar o caso e acaba se apaixonando pela moça.
A Waiter
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
Allusi Ali
In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.
Moe
Canary-voiced boy wonder Bobby Breen once more croons his way into our hearts in Make a Wish. While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Breen befriends famed composer Basil Rathbone. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Rathbone at last finds it when he meets Breen's gorgeous mother Marion Claire, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiance Ralph Forbes refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block. But Little-Mister-Fixit Breen manages to patch up everything just in time for Claire to debut in Rathbone's latest masterpiece. Offering much-needed comedy relief are Henry Armetta, Leon Errol and Donald Meek as a trio of parasitic would-be songwriters. Make a Wish was based on a story by Gertrude Berg, of "Molly Goldberg" fame.
Dr. Sokoloff
A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as "America's Boyfriend" decides to wed a Swedish actress. His manager doesn't want this because he is afraid of Tony losing female fans so he takes up a 300 hundred thousand dollar insurance policy if Tony does in fact wed. Tony soon meets a girl name June Delaney on a bus who doesn't swoon over him like other girls. He falls for her but doesn't know her true identity.
Mischa
A female agent tacks down the cause of mysterious explosions.
Artist
An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
Maxie Burgos
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
Nicholas Krakin
A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.
Stewart
China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.
Mischa
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters
Card Player (uncredited)
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men.
Waiter (Uncredited)
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
Vocal Teacher (uncredited)
Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her best friend, reporter Peter Dawes, who secretly loves her. When Peter learns that the already-engaged Charles has hurt Marilyn, he fabricates an article casting her as the "No Girl" who refused to marry a callous aristocrat. But when the publicity brings Marilyn unexpected fame, and Charles returns, she is forced to choose between the two men.
Shepherd (uncredited)
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
Simon Kartinkin
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
Nicholas Petrovich,- Smuggler
An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.
Party Guest
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.
Garçon (uncredited)
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
Trotskyite Slapping Poppa Rosen
Jim Wade (William Powell) e Edward "Blackie" Gallagher (Clark Gable) são amigos de infância que seguem caminhos distintos. Gallagher se torna um jogador e gângster, enquanto Wade é eleito promotor, devido à sua integridade, e se candidata a governador. Eleanor Packer (Myrna Loy), que tivera uma forte relação com Blackie, se casa com Wade. Neste período Wade se vê obrigado a pedir a pena de morte ao amigo, que foi acusado de assassinato, sem imaginar que Blackie cometeu o crime para ajudá-lo a se eleger governador.
Gallopsky
In this comedy, a Tennessee art school student wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he arrives and discovers that his style is hopelessly passe and is considered trashy. The enterprising artist immediately changes style and begins painting highly-abstract moderns.
Sylvanian Agitator
Rufus T. Firefly é nomeado presidente/ditador da corrupta Freedonia e declara guerra à sua vizinha, Sylvania, disputando o amor da rica Sra. Teasdale.
Serbian Villager (uncredited)
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.
The Communist (uncredited)
Um ladrão cavalheiro e uma senhora batedora de carteiras unem forças contra a bela proprietário de uma empresa de perfumes. Envolvimentos românticos e ciúmes atrapalham o esquema. O ladrão europeu de Alta Classe, Gaston Monescu, encontra sua alma gêmea Lily, uma batedora de carteiras travestida de condessa. Os dois juntam forças e arrumam emprego com Madame Colet, a bela proprietária da empresa de perfume Colet. Gaston funciona como secretário pessoal de Madame Colet sob o pseudônimo Monsieur La Valle. Rumores começam a circular dizendo que Monsieur La Valle está "roubando" Madame Colet de seus outros pretendentes. Quando o segredo de sua verdadeira identidade começa a ameaçá-lo, Gaston fica preso entre as duas bonitas mulheres.
Ivan
The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.
