Leonid Utyosov
- Acting
- March 21, 1895 · Odessa, Odesskiy uyezd, Khersonskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
- March 9, 1982
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Легенды музыки · Self
- Memories of the "Cow March" · (archive footage)
- How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite! · archiveFootage
- I Am Returning Your Portrait · Self
- Old Record · Archive voice footage
- Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life · Self
- Arkadiy Raykin · Self
- Мелодии Дунаевского
- You Can't Cross the Bridge · Conductor
- Variety Stars
- Concert for the Front · Self
- Concert on the Screen
- Jolly Fellows · Kostya Potekhin
- The Career of Spirka Shpandyr · Spirka Shpandyr
- Strangers · Red soldier Egorov
- The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt · Zarudniy