美国电影演员。当过记者和漫画家，后在杂耍剧中扮演方言喜剧角色，并参加剧团演出。二十年代末进入影坛，成为好莱坞三四十年代最忙碌的性格演员之一。曾在著名歌后格蕾丝·摩亚主演的影片《金缕曲》（1935）中扮演男主角，但后来主演扮演以提供笑料为主而仪态和蔼的拉丁人。五十年代后期退出影坛。后一度在电视连续剧《游侠希思科》中扮演邓坎的伙伴潘乔。
Leonid Kinskey, originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, performed across Europe and much of Latin America before his arrival in the United States. By 1932 he landed a small role as a radical in Ernst Lubitsch's comedy, Trouble in Paradise (1932). The next year he played an agitator in Duck Soup (1933). He went on to play small parts, nearly always foreigners and often comedic, in over sixty films, including Genflou in Les Misérables (1935), the snake charmer in the well-known scene from The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), an Arab in The Garden of Allah (1936), Ivan in The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938), and Pierre in That Night in Rio (1941). His final film role was Dominiwski in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955). Kinskey's most famous role was as Sascha, the humorous bartender at Rick's Cafe Americaine, in Casablanca (1942). The part had originally been given to Leon Mostovoy; Kinskey replaced him because (1) he was funnier than Mostovoy, and (2) by his own testimony, he was a drinking buddy of the star Humphrey Bogart. His contract guaranteed him two weeks at $750 a week. He died on 8 September 1998, in Fountain Hills, Arizona, aged 95.
