Leonid Utyosov
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
- Acting
- Born
- 1895-03-21 · Odessa, Odesskiy uyezd, Khersonskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
- Died
- 1982-03-09
Known for
- Jolly Fellows (1934) — Kostya Potekhin
- The Career of Spirka Shpandyr (1926) — Spirka Shpandyr
- Variety Stars (1954)
- Concert on the Screen (1940)
- Мелодии Дунаевского (1963)
- Memories of the "Cow March" (1991) — (archive footage)
- How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite! (1991) — archiveFootage
- Concert for the Front (1942) — Self
- Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life (1976) — Himself
- The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt (1917) — Zarudniy
- Arkadiy Raykin (1975) — Self
- You Can't Cross the Bridge (1960) — Conductor
- Old Record (1982) — Archive voice footage
- I Am Returning Your Portrait (1983) — himself (archive)
- Strangers (1926) — Red soldier Egorov
- Легенды музыки (2015) — Self (archive footage)