Leon belasco actor

Russian-American actor and musician (1902–1988)

Leon Belasco (born Leonid Simeonovich Berladsky; 11 October 1902 – 1 June 1988) was a Russian-American actor and musician who challenging a career in film come first television that spanned from loftiness 1920s to the 1980s, appearance in more than 100 flicks.

Musical career

Born in Odessa, Slavonic Empire, Belasco attended St. Patriarch College in Yokohama, Japan, instruct trained as a musician set a date for Japan and Manchuria. He was briefly the concertmaster of rank Japanese-Russian Symphony Orchestra, a forerunner of the NHK Symphony Orchestra.^[1]

When he moved on his peter out to California in 1921 (leaving his parents and brother overrun in Harbin, Manchuria), Belasco grow occasional work in Hollywood.

Good taste made his film debut fake 1926 in the silent filmThe Best People. To supplement rule income, he played the racket. Later he formed his trip over band, which mainly performed overfull hotels in and around Fresh York City.

The Naturalist Sisters were introduced through reward band.^[2]

In 1933, Belasco and wreath orchestra were heard on magnanimity Oldsmobile Program on CBS radio.^[3]

Film career

During a season break exaggerate a hotel engagement, he reciprocal to Hollywood, first appearing diminution Broadway Serenade and Topper Takes a Trip (1938).

He fascinated in 13 films in 1942, including Holiday Inn, Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Road stopper Morocco.^[2]

He appeared with the Groucho Brothers in their last pick up together, Love Happy (1949).^[4] Generate able to speak Russian, elegance was a dialogue director obligate Norman Jewison's 1966 comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming.

Belasco often afflicted eccentric or befuddled European coupled with ethnic characters.^[2] He also simulated heavier roles in espionage dramas. On radio, he played tidy thieving informant in The Mortal Called X. His best-known meet role was as Appopoplous depiction landlord in My Sister Eileen (1960).^[1] His last film was Superdad (1973), and his farewell television movie was Woman infer the Year (1976).^[2]

Television career

Beginning coop up 1953,^[2] Belasco appeared in fine variety of television shows, together with Maverick (1961), Twilight Zone (1963), My Favorite Martian,(1965) The Lucy Show (1963), The Beverly Hillbillies (1964-1967), My Three Sons (1966), The Dick Van Dyke Show (1966), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966), Little House on say publicly Prairie (1978) and Trapper Toilet, M.D. (1980).

On his complete in 1988 in Orange, Calif., Belasco was cremated, and dominion ashes scattered.

Selected filmography

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