Trivia

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.

Lee Kinsolving's brother, Augustus B., was an attorney for a prominent law firm in New York City. He died on March 27, 2017 in Fishers Island, N.Y.. 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.

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.

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.

Both he and his acting mentor, Mary Welch, died at 36 years of age, 16 years apart.

Lee Kinsolving graduated from Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA and attended Trinity College (Episcopal) in Hartford, CT.

In March 1964, painter Andrew Wyeth and his wife, Betsy, were injured in their driveway in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, while trying out scooters that had been brought to their home by their teenage son and Kinsolving, his friend. The injuries were not life-threatening.

Interred at Fisher's Island Cemetery near Long Island, NY.