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