Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1895-03-21
Deathday
1982-03-09
Place of Birth
Odessa, Odessa uyezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
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
as Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
Variety Stars
Memories of the "Cow March"
as (archive footage)
How It Was Done in Odessa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!
as archiveFootage
Концерт на экране
Мелодии Дунаевского
Old Record
as Archive voice footage
I Am Returning Your Portrait
as himself (archive)
Concert for the Front
as Self