Early Life
Kingsley was born Götz Gustav Ksinski in 1922 in Bochum, Germany to a Roman Catholic mother and a Jewish father. Kingsley left Germany in 1938 and joined a kibbutz while his parents stayed behind. His parents emigrated to the United States where Kingsley would meet up with them eight years later.
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