Leonid Utyosov
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.
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Films (15)
Memories of the "Cow March"
1991 · (archive footage)
How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!
1991 · archiveFootage
I Am Returning Your Portrait
1983 · himself (archive)
Old Record
1982 · Archive voice footage
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
1976 · Himself
Arkadiy Raykin
1975 · Self
Мелодии Дунаевского
1963
You Can't Cross the Bridge
1960 · Conductor
Variety Stars
1954
Concert for the Front
1942 · Self
Concert on the Screen
1940
Jolly Fellows
1934 · Kostya Potekhin
The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
1926 · Spirka Shpandyr
Strangers
1926 · Red soldier Egorov
The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt
1917 · Zarudniy