Name
Leonid Kanevsky
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1939-05-02 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
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 well as the role of a smuggler in the comedy "Diamond Hand" and haberdasher Bonacieux in the mini-series "D'Artagnan and Three the Musketeer."
In 1991, he repatriated to Israel, where, together with director Eugene Arie, he created the Gesher Drama Theater in Tel Aviv (translated from Hebrew - "bridge"); the basis of his troupe are Russian actors who played on the stages of Moscow and Leningrad theaters.
In 2003, he was the host of the TV game "The Ninth Shaft" on the Israeli Channel 9.
From January 2006 to the present — presenter of the documentary TV show "The investigation was conducted ..." on "NTV".
In 2009, he starred in the TV series "Semin" and "Semin. Retribution."
He also took part in the dubbing of the cartoon "Cars 2" in the role of scout Finn Mcmistle.
Over the years of his creative activity, the actor has starred in more than fifty films and television series.
Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation.
Known For
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Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Ar...
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A diamond smuggling operation goes wrong when an ordinary Soviet citizen becomes unwitting...
5.5
The Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about Jesus and Pontius ...
6.3
Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to ...
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This time Lesha, Slava, Kamil and Sasha go to St. Petersburg. And three of the four do not...
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Going to vacation at his grandmother’s in a village, the boy Mitya could never imagine t...
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After their town is occupied the citizens are trying to fight the enemy. Based on Tamara G...
- 1969 The Diamond Arm as head smuggler's assistant
- 1975 The Magic Skin
- 2005 Roots as Baroukh
- 1987 Candidate
- 1970 Vaudeville On Vaudeville
- 1972 The Pickwick Papers
- 1977 Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
- 1975 Taste of Khalva as Худайкул - начальник стражи эмира
- 1984 Pippi Longstocking as Thief
- 2011 The Master and Margarita as Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy (uncredited)
- 1965 The City of Masters
- 1982 Along Unknown Paths as Десятник - Миллионский
- 2019 Hot! as Leonid Kanevskiy
- 1984 Monsieur Lenoir, Who... as Joseph
- 1969 The Red Tent as Italian Radio Operator (uncredited)
- 1995 Jewish Vendetta
- 1983 Mary Poppins, Goodbye as Bob Gudetti
- 1974 Adventures in the City which Doesn't Exist as Bonaventura
- 2003 Rutenberg as Zemesh
- 1967 Mitya
- 1969 Commandant of Lauterburg
- 1991 Death in Cinema
- 1972 Summer Is Gone ...
- 1973 Land, Poste Restante as Maurizio
- 1968 Punisher
- 1977 Almanzor's Rings as Mukhamiel
- 1976 Amazing Berendeev as Nachalnik militsii
- 1971 The Amazing Boy as Apperkot
- 2001 Late Marriage as Otary (as Leonid Kanevski)
- 1974 Sergeev Seeking Sergeev as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 What Men Talk About 3
- 1973 Nylon 100% as Арчибальдик
- 1970 New Year's Abduction as director
- 1974 Homeboy as Robert Ivanovich
- 1986 The Victims Have No Grievance
- 1972 The Train Stops for Two Minutes as Conférencier
- 1974 Night of the Mistakes
- 1973 Some Words in Honour of Mr. De Molière
- 1966 When the Harpsichord Plays as Illicit Dealer
- 2013 Ilfipetrov as Narrator / From the author (voice)
- 1975 Give Me Back My Rex as Elephant trainer (voice)
- 1971 Physics at Half Past Nine
- 1964 Forty Minutes 'Til Dawn
- 1975 Countermeasure
- 1967 The Life and Ascension of Yuras Bratchik
- 1967 Two Hours Earlier as ensemble administrator (uncredited)
- 2025 Пари
- 1972 Moby Dick
- 1979 Hello, I've Arrived!
- 1973 In the Rooms
- 2027 Следствие ведут
- 2026 Land of Wonders as (voice)
- 2006 The investigation was conducted ( 701 episodes ) as ведущий
- 1979 D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers ( 3 episodes ) as Monsieur Bonacieux
- 2008 Big Difference ( 1 episode ) as Himself / Guest
- 2023 Olivier and the Robots ( 6 episodes )
- 2024 Games 80 ( 8 episodes ) as Александр Юрьевич
- 2024 Райский ( 50 episodes ) as генерал Райский Виктор Семенович
- 1962 Fuse ( 5 episodes )
- 1971 Investigation Held by ZnaToKi ( 33 episodes ) as Александр Томин
