Acting
Leonid Utyosov
Odessa, Odesskiy uyezd, Khersonskaya guberniya, Russian EmpireBorn 1895
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.
13
Films
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TV Shows
Known For
13 Credits
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
as Himself
1976
Jolly Fellows
as Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
1934
How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!
as archiveFootage
1991
I Am Returning Your Portrait
as himself (archive)
1983
Мелодии Дунаевского
1963
Concert on the Screen
1940
Concert for the Front
as Self
1942
Variety Stars
1954
Memories of the "Cow March"
as (archive footage)
1991
Old Record
as Archive voice footage
1982
Arkadiy Raykin
as Self
1975
The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
as Spirka Shpandyr
1926