Leonid Utyosov
Acting
86 years oldOdessa, Odesskiy uyezd, Khersonskaya guberniya, Russian EmpireBiography
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.
Personal Details
Also Known As
Леонид Утесов
Л. Утесов
Л. Утёсов
Movies (16)
7.0
Memories of the "Cow March"
as (archive footage)
1991
8.0
How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!
as archiveFootage
1991
I Am Returning Your Portrait
as himself (archive)
1983
Old Record
as Archive voice footage
1982
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
as Himself
1976
7.3
It Can't Be!
Playback Singer (Sound)
1975
Arkadiy Raykin
as Self
1975
Мелодии Дунаевского
1963
7.0
You Can't Cross the Bridge
Conductor (Sound)
1960
5.7
Variety Stars
1954
Concert for the Front
as Self
1942
Concert on the Screen
1940
6.2
Jolly Fellows
as Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
1934
5.0
The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
as Spirka Shpandyr
1926
Чужие
as Red soldier Egorov
1926
The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt
as Zarudniy
1917