Elya Baskin
Birthday
1950/08/11 (74 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia]
Also know as
Elya Zalmanovich Baskin , Ilya Zalmanovich Baskin, الیا باسکین
Biography
Baskin was born in Riga, the son of Frieda and Zalman Baskin. He attended Moscow's prestigious Theatre and Variety Arts College and won a Festival of Young Actors Award at the Moscow Comedy Theatre. Baskin immigrated to the United States in 1976. He has built a considerable career in TV and movies, and is often cast as a Russian, due to his ancestry and accent. He has ultimately become one of the most popular choices whenever a Russian is needed in a TV-episode or a major movie production. He...Read more
Acting
(1986) The Name of the Rose
as Severinus
(2004) Spider-Man 2
as Mr. Ditkovitch
(2007) Spider-Man 3
as Mr. Ditkovitch
(2021) I Love Us
as Ira Prince
(1997) Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
as General Borschevsky
(1984) Moscow on the Hudson
as Anatoly Cherkasov
(1989) DeepStar Six
as Burciaga
(1997) Air Force One
as Andrei Kolchak
(2017) Chicanery
as Boris Namarov
(2009) Angels & Demons
as Cardinal Petrov
(1999) October Sky
as Ike Bykovsky
(1993) The Pickle
as Russian Cap Driver
(1979) Being There
as Karpatov
(2009) God's Smile
as ---
(2007) The Dukes
as Murph Sinitsky
(2019) Hit Me
as Voice of Mr. Ditkovich
(2010) Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright
as Letvinko
(1999) Running Red
as Strelkin
(1981) American Pop
as Tuba Player (voice)
(1989) Enemies, a Love Story
as Yaska Kobik
(2005) Wheelmen
as Vladimir
(2013) Jimmy P.
as Dr. Jokl
(1972) The Long Recess
as red-haired student
(1986) My Town
as Slovack
(1997) Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
as Boris
(1977) The World's Greatest Lover
as Actor with Bad Breath
(1989) Big Man on Campus
as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
(1985) Embassy
as Aelx Serov
(1986) Combat Academy
as Interpreter
(1984) 2010
as Maxim Brailovsky
(2006) Color of the Cross
as ---
(2006) The Elder Son
as Uncle Fedya
(2015) The Hive
as Yuri Yegorov
(1994) Love Affair
as Ship Captain
(1996) Spy Hard
as Professor Ukrinsky
(1986) Streets of Gold
as Klebanov
(2015) Silent Screams
as Andrei
(1972) Telegram
as ---
(2000) Runaway Virus
as Father Vadim
(2019) Supervized
as Brian
(1979) Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
as Book-keeper
(2011) Transformers: Dark of the Moon
as Cosmonaut Dimitri
(2020) Legacy
as Boranovic
(1980) Raise the Titanic
as Marganin
(2000) Thirteen Days
as Anotoly Dobrinyn
(1988) Zits
as Timoshenko
(1993) Walker, Texas Ranger: One Riot, One Ranger
as Misha
(2007) Say It in Russian
as ---
(2024) Reagan
as B.E. Kertchman
(1988) Vice Versa
as Kerschner
(2025) Guys' Night in The Thing
as Voice of Mr. Ditkovich
(1982) St. Elsewhere
as ---
(1994) Ellen
as Sergei
(2005) The Closer
as Priest
(2001) The Agency
as ---
(2006) Heroes
as Ivan Spector
(2001) Alias
as Josef Vlachko
(1996) Early Edition
as ---
(1992) The Larry Sanders Show
as ---
(2003) Cold Case
as Dr. Goran Petrovic
(1995) VR.5
as Dr. Zoloft
(1989) Coach
as Police Officer
(1988) Roseanne
as ---
(2009) Castle
as Sergei Vetotchkin
(1993) Walker, Texas Ranger
as Misha
(1989) Quantum Leap
as Major Yuri Kosenko
(2005) Criminal Minds
as Arseny Lysowsky
(1998) Becker
as Alexei
(1991) Sisters
as ---
(1990) Northern Exposure
as Nikolai Apalanov
(2000) The Invisible Man
as Dimitri Yevchenko
(1989) True Blue
as Yuri
(1983) Masquerade
as ---
(2015) Chicago Med
as Dr. Mischa Lenkov
(1977) The San Pedro Beach Bums
as ---
(1996) Something So Right
as Yuri
(1997) Alright Already
as ---
(2010) Rizzoli & Isles
as Dr. Vladmir Papov
(1999) The West Wing
as Mr. Zubatov
(2022) The Rookie: Feds
as Consul General Viktar Saroka
(2016) MacGyver
as Alexander Orlov
(2009) Celebrity Ghost Stories
as Self
(1993) Walker, Texas Ranger
as Corp. Yuri Petrovsky
(1987) CBS Summer Playhouse
as Serge
(1998) Felicity
as Bela
(2011) Homeland
as Viktor
(1985) MacGyver
as Yuri Demetri
(1992) Mad About You
as Vladimir
(1985) The Comedy Factory
as Sasha Zhukov