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
Variety Stars
Arkadiy Raykin
as Self
Jolly Fellows
as Kostya Potekhin
The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
as Spirka Shpandyr
How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!
as archiveFootage
Мелодии Дунаевского
I Am Returning Your Portrait
as himself (archive)
Concert on the Screen
Concert for the Front
as Self