Born
1895-03-21 (age 131)
Birthplace
Odessa, Odesskiy uyezd, Khersonskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Known For
Acting
Leonid Utyosov
Biography
Leonid Osipovich Utyosov or Utesov (Russian: Леони́д О́сипович Утёсов); real name Lazar (Leyzer) Iosifovich Vaysbeyn or Weissbein (Russian: Ла́зарь (Ле́йзер) Ио́сифович Вайсбе́йн) (21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1895, Odessa – 9 March 1982, Moscow), was a famous Soviet jazz singer and comic actor of Jewish origin, who became the first pop singer to be awarded the prestigious title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1965.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Concert on the Screen
1940
Мелодии Дунаевского
1963
Jolly Fellows
as Kostya Potekhin
1934
The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
as Spirka Shpandyr
1926
Old Record
as Archive voice footage
1982
Memories of the "Cow March"
as (archive footage)
1991
Variety Stars
1954
How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!
as archiveFootage
1991
I Am Returning Your Portrait
as himself (archive)
1983
Concert for the Front
as Self
1942
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
as Himself
1976
The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt
as Zarudniy
1917
Arkadiy Raykin
as Self
1975
Чужие
as Red soldier Egorov
1926