Leonid Utyosov
Acting
Born: 1895-03-21 in Odessa, Odesskiy uyezd, Khersonskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
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
Jolly Fellows
Kostya Potekhin
The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
Spirka Shpandyr
Variety Stars
Concert on the Screen
Мелодии Дунаевского
Memories of the "Cow March"
(archive footage)
How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!
archiveFootage
Concert for the Front
Self
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
Himself
The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt
Zarudniy
Arkadiy Raykin
Self
Old Record
Archive voice footage
I Am Returning Your Portrait
himself (archive)
Strangers
Red soldier Egorov