Arthur Lee Kinsolving Jr. Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Arthur Lee Kinsolving Jr., known professionally as Lee Kinsolving, (August 30, 1938 – December 4, 1974) was an American film, theater and television actor. In 1960, Kinsolving was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor at the 18th Golden Globe Awards for his role as Sammy Goldenbaum in the film, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. He lost the award to actor Sal Mineo.His television credits included a 1964 episode of The Twilight Zone, Black Leather Jackets, in which he guest starred as Scott, an alien who falls in love with a human, Ellen Tillman, portrayed by Shelley Fabares.Kinsolving was born on August 30, 1938, in Boston, Massachusetts, where his father, Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving, was serving as the rector of Trinity Church at the time. Father Kinsolving later became the rector of St. James' Episcopal Church, which brought the family to New York City. Lee Kinsolving began his acting career on Broadway. He was married to Lillian B. Crawford, a model.Lee Kinsolving died in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 4, 1974, at the age of 36 from a sudden respiratory illness.
Lee Kinsolving's brother, Augustus B., is an attorney for a prominent law firm in New York City. His other brother, Thomas B., was a managing partner in the Washington firm of Telemark Associates. He died of cancer on December 8, 1995. His sister, Anne K. Talbott, served on the Foxcroft School Board of Trustees in Virginia. She died in Old Lyme, CT on September 24, 2007.
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Lee Kinsolving graduated from Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA and attended Trinity College (Episcopal) in Hartford, CT.
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After his freshman year at Trinity College Lee played with a theatrical stock company at Mt. Kisco's Westchester Playhouse. According to his mother that is where "he decided acting was his dish." A Broadway scout saw him and liked what he saw and helped him get a part in the play, Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson.
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After his acting career Lee was director of the Lillian Phipps Art Gallery and managed the Wally Findlay Galleries in Palm Beach, FL. In 1968 he opened a popular New York City night spot, Toad Hall.
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Kinsolving was a lover of the sea as evidenced by his captaining the DuPont family yacht, skippered an 18 ft. speedboat from Palm Beach, FL to Newport, RI, and captained a tugboat that ran between Norfolk, VA and Florida. For a short time he also had a yacht brokerage firm in Palm Beach, FL.