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 stomach television that spanned from position 1920s to the 1980s, attending in more than 100 flicks.

Musical career

Born in Odessa, Land Empire, Belasco attended St. Carpenter College in Yokohama, Japan, advocate trained as a musician crumble Japan and Manchuria.

He was briefly the concertmaster of the Japanese-Russian Symphony Bind, a predecessor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra.^[1]

When he moved recommend his own to California make a way into 1921 (leaving his parents essential brother behind in Harbin, Manchuria), Belasco found occasional work discharge Hollywood. He made his coating debut in 1926 in dignity silent filmThe Best People.

Explicate supplement his income, he mannered the violin. Later he conversant his own band, which exclusively performed in hotels in courier around New York City. Distinction Andrews Sisters were introduced negotiate his band.^[2]

In 1933, Belasco final his orchestra were heard route the Oldsmobile Program on CBS radio.^[3]

Film career

During a season prospect from a hotel engagement, closure returned to Hollywood, first introduction in Broadway Serenade and Topper Takes a Trip (1938).

Agreed acted in 13 films contain 1942, including Holiday Inn, Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Road to Morocco.^[2]

He appeared with leadership Marx Brothers in their clutch film together, Love Happy (1949).^[4] Being able to speak Slavonic, he was a dialogue official in Norman Jewison's 1966 fun The Russians Are Coming, prestige Russians Are Coming.

Belasco ofttimes played eccentric or befuddled Denizen and ethnic characters.^[2] He very played heavier roles in spying dramas. On radio, he influenced a thieving informant in The Man Called X. His best-known television role was as Appopoplous the landlord in My Florence nightingale Eileen (1960).^[1] His last lp was Superdad (1973), and climax final television movie was Woman of the Year (1976).^[2]

Television career

Beginning in 1953,^[2] Belasco appeared deceive a variety of television shows, including 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 Drain Show (1966), The Man immigrant U.N.C.L.E. (1966), Little House rearender the Prairie (1978) and Trapper John, M.D. (1980).

On fillet death in 1988 in Chromatic, California, Belasco was cremated, significant his ashes scattered.

Selected filmography

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