Leonid Utyosov
Acting
March 21, 1895
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.
Movies
Memories of the "Cow March"
1991
The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
1926
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
1976
Arkadiy Raykin
1975
How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!
1991
I Am Returning Your Portrait
1983
Concert for the Front
1942
Мелодии Дунаевского
1963
Variety Stars
1954
Old Record
1982
Concert on the Screen
1940
Jolly Fellows
1934
The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt
1917