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

Variety Stars

Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life

Arkadiy Raykin

The Career of Spirka Shpandyr

Old Record

Мелодии Дунаевского

I Am Returning Your Portrait

All Movies (14)

• Memories of the "Cow March"1991 · as (archive footage)
• How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!1991 · as archiveFootage
• I Am Returning Your Portrait1983 · as himself (archive)
• Old Record1982 · as Archive voice footage
• Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life1976 · as Himself
• Arkadiy Raykin1975 · as Self
• Мелодии Дунаевского1963
• Variety Stars1954
• Concert for the Front1942 · as Self
• Concert on the Screen1940
• Jolly Fellows1934 · as Kostya Potekhin
• The Career of Spirka Shpandyr1926 · as Spirka Shpandyr
• Чужие1926 · as Red soldier Egorov
• The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt1917 · as Zarudniy

All TV Shows (1)

• Легенды музыки2015 · as Self (archive footage)