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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)
Мелодии Дунаевского
Arkadiy Raykin
as Self
I Am Returning Your Portrait
as himself (archive)
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
as Himself
Old Record
as Archive voice footage
Variety Stars
How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!
as archiveFootage
The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
as Spirka Shpandyr
Concert for the Front
as Self
