Leonid Utyosov
Actor
Born March 21, 1895 in Odessa, Odesskiy uyezd, Khersonskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
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.
Filmography
Memories of the "Cow March"
(archive footage)
How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!
archiveFootage
I Am Returning Your Portrait
himself (archive)
Old Record
Archive voice footage
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
Himself
Arkadiy Raykin
Self
Мелодии Дунаевского
You Can't Cross the Bridge
Variety Stars
Concert for the Front
Self
Concert on the Screen
Jolly Fellows
Kostya Potekhin
The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
Spirka Shpandyr
The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt
Zarudniy