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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Jolly Fellows (1934) — Kostya Potekhin
2. The Career of Spirka Shpandyr (1926) — Spirka Shpandyr
3. Variety Stars (1954)
4. Concert on the Screen (1940)
5. Мелодии Дунаевского (1963)
6. Memories of the "Cow March" (1991) — (archive footage)
7. How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite! (1991) — archiveFootage
8. Concert for the Front (1942) — Self
9. Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life (1976) — Himself
10. The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt (1917) — Zarudniy
11. Arkadiy Raykin (1975) — Self
12. Old Record (1982) — Archive voice footage
13. I Am Returning Your Portrait (1983) — himself (archive)
14. Чужие (1926) — Red soldier Egorov
15. Легенды музыки (2015) — Self (archive footage)