Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 21, 1895
Place of Birth
Odessa, Odesskiy uyezd, Khersonskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Also Known As
- Леонид Утесов
- Л. Утесов
- Л. Утёсов
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 - Movies
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
as Himself
Jolly Fellows
as Kostya Potekhin
I Am Returning Your Portrait
as himself (archive)
The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
as Spirka Shpandyr
Variety Stars
Concert for the Front
as Self
Old Record
as Archive voice footage
Concert on the Screen
Memories of the "Cow March"
as (archive footage)
