Leonid Utyosov
Actor
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
The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
as Spirka Shpandyr 1926
Variety Stars
1954
Memories of the "Cow March"
as (archive footage) 1991
How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!
as archiveFootage 1991
Concert on the Screen
1940
Мелодии Дунаевского
1963
Old Record
as Archive voice footage 1982
I Am Returning Your Portrait
as himself (archive) 1983
Concert for the Front
as Self 1942
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
as Himself 1976
The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt
as Zarudniy 1917
Arkadiy Raykin
as Self 1975