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Leonid Utyosov

Acting Born Mar 21, 1895 Odessa, Odesskiy uyezd, Khersonskaya guberniya, Russian Empire 15 credits

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.

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Known for

Film

Variety Stars

1954

Full filmography

  • Concert for the Front (1942) as Self
  • Легенды музыки (2015) as Self (archive footage)
  • Jolly Fellows (1934) as Kostya Potekhin
  • Мелодии Дунаевского (1963)
  • Чужие (1926) as Red soldier Egorov
  • Old Record (1982) as Archive voice footage
  • Concert on the Screen (1940)
  • Variety Stars (1954)
  • I Am Returning Your Portrait (1983) as himself (archive)
  • The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt (1917) as Zarudniy
  • The Career of Spirka Shpandyr (1926) as Spirka Shpandyr
  • Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life (1976) as Himself
  • How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite! (1991) as archiveFootage
  • Arkadiy Raykin (1975) as Self
  • Memories of the "Cow March" (1991) as (archive footage)