Leonid Utyosov
Born: 1895-03-21 in Odessa, Odesskiy uyezd, Khersonskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Died: 1982-03-09
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2015
- Легенды музыки as Self (archive footage)
1991
- How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite! as archiveFootage
- Memories of the "Cow March" as (archive footage)
1983
- I Am Returning Your Portrait as himself (archive)
1982
- Old Record as Archive voice footage
1976
1975
- Arkadiy Raykin as Self
- It Can't Be! ... (Playback Singer)
1963
1960
- You Can't Cross the Bridge ... (Conductor)
1954
1942
- Concert for the Front as Self
1934
- Jolly Fellows as Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
1926
- The Career of Spirka Shpandyr as Spirka Shpandyr
- Чужие as Red soldier Egorov
1917
- The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt as Zarudniy