Leonid Kanevsky
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Born:
May 02, 1939

Age: 87 Alive

From:
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]

Department:
Acting

Total Credits: 58

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Leonid Kanevsky

Also known as: Leonid Kanevskyi, Leonid Kanevskiy, Leonid Kanevskii, Л. Каневский, Leonid Kanewskyj

Biography

Soviet, Russian and Israeli theater, film and dubbing actor, TV presenter; Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1984). Member of the Public Council of the Russian Jewish Congress.

Leonid Semenovich Kanevsky was born on May 2, 1939 in Kiev in a Jewish family. My mother studied piano at the Kiev Conservatory, graduated from the 2nd year, got married at the age of 19, left the conservatory and went with her husband to the Caucasus, where he worked. In 1933, the elder brother Alexander was born, 6 years later Leonid was born.

At the age of 17, he left for Moscow and entered the Shchukin College for the course of Vera Konstantinovna Lvova.

From 1960 to 1967, he was an actor of the Moscow Lenin Komsomol Theater.

From 1967 to 1991 — actor of the Moscow Theater on Malaya Bronnaya.

His film debut was a cameo role in the film "Forty Minutes before Dawn" (1963).

The actor was widely known for the role of police major Alexander Tomin in the TV series "The Investigation is conducted by Experts", as...

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