Leonid Kanevsky

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 miniseries DArtagnan 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