Leonid Utyosov
Born
March 21, 1895
Died
March 9, 1982 (86 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
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
Memories of the "Cow March"
(archive footage)
1991
How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!
archiveFootage
1991
I Am Returning Your Portrait
himself (archive)
1983
Old Record
Archive voice footage
1982
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
Himself
1976
Arkadiy Raykin
Self
1975
Мелодии Дунаевского
1963
Variety Stars
1954
Concert for the Front
Self
1942
Concert on the Screen
1940
Jolly Fellows
Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
1934
The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
Spirka Shpandyr
1926
Чужие
Red soldier Egorov
1926
The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt
Zarudniy
1917