Leonid Utyosov
Birthday
1895/03/21
Day of death
1982/03/09 (87 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Odessa, Odessa uyezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Also know as
Леонид Утесов, Леонид Утёсов
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.
Acting
(1940) Концерт на экране
as ---
(1963) Мелодии Дунаевского
as ---
(1934) Jolly Fellows
as Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
(1926) The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
as ---
(1982) Old Record
as Archive voice footage
(1991) Memories of the "Cow March"
as (archive footage)
(1954) Variety Stars
as ---
(1991) How It Was Done in Odessa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!
as archiveFootage
(1983) I Am Returning Your Portrait
as himself (archive)
(1942) Concert for the Front
as Self
(1976) Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
as Himself
(1917) The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt
as Zarudniy