Leonid Utyosov
March 21, 1895 (129 years old) in Odessa, Odessa uyezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
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.
Known For
Credits
- 1991 · Memories of the "Cow March" as (archive footage)
- 1991 · How It Was Done in Odessa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite! as archiveFootage
- 1983 · I Am Returning Your Portrait as himself (archive)
- 1982 · Old Record as Archive voice footage
- 1976 · Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life as Himself
- 1963 · Мелодии Дунаевского as
- 1954 · Variety Stars as
- 1942 · Concert for the Front as Self
- 1940 · Концерт на экране as
- 1934 · Jolly Fellows as Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
- 1926 · The Career of Spirka Shpandyr as
- 1917 · The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt as Zarudniy