Leonid Utyosov

Personal Info

Birthday

March 21, 1895

Day of Death

1982-03-09

(86 years old)

Place of Birth

Odessa, Odessa uyezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire

Also Known As

Леонид Утесов

Леонид Утёсов

Leonid Utyosov

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

Old Record

How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!

Чужие

Memories of the "Cow March"

The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt

The Career of Spirka Shpandyr

Filmography

1991
Memories of the "Cow March"
as (archive footage)
How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!
as archiveFootage
1983
I Am Returning Your Portrait
as himself (archive)
1982
Old Record
as Archive voice footage
1976
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
as Himself
1975
Arkadiy Raykin
as Self
1942
Concert for the Front
as Self
1934
Jolly Fellows
as Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
1926
The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
as Spirka Shpandyr
Чужие
as Red soldier Egorov
1917
The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt
as Zarudniy