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Leonid Utyosov
Acting
Born: March 21, 1895
Odessa, Odessa uyezd, Kherson Governorate, 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
as Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
Old Record
as Archive voice footage
How It Was Done in Odessa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!
as archiveFootage
Variety Stars
Концерт на экране
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
as Himself
Мелодии Дунаевского
Arkadiy Raykin
as Self
I Am Returning Your Portrait
as himself (archive)
