Personal Info
Gender:Unspecified
Birth Date:1895-03-21 00:00:00
Birth Place:Odessa, Odesskiy uyezd, Khersonskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Known For:Acting
Death Date:1982-03-09 00:00:00
Popularity:1
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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.
Filmography (16)
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
Role: Himself1976
How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!
Role: archiveFootage1991
Concert for the Front
Role: Self1942
Arkadiy Raykin
Role: Self1975
Мелодии Дунаевского
actor1963
Memories of the "Cow March"
Role: (archive footage)1991
Variety Stars
actor1954
Concert on the Screen
actor1940
I Am Returning Your Portrait
Role: himself (archive)1983
You Can't Cross the Bridge
conductor1960
The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
Role: Spirka Shpandyr1926
Old Record
Role: Archive voice footage1982
The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt
Role: Zarudniy1917
No Image
Чужие
Role: Red soldier Egorov1926
It Can't Be!
playback singer1975
Jolly Fellows
Role: Kostya Potekhin1934