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.
Filmography
all 10
Movies 10
self 2
(archive footage)
Memories of the "Cow March" (1991)
Movie
archiveFootage
Как это делалось в Одессе... или одесситы всех стран, соединяйтесь! (1991)
Movie
himself (archive)
I Am Returning Your Portrait (1983)
Movie
Songs Performer
Old Record (1982)
Movie
Мелодии Дунаевского (1963)
Movie
Variety Stars (1954)
Movie
Self
Concert for the Front (1942)
Movie
Концерт на экране (1940)
Movie
Kostya Potekhin
Jolly Fellows (1934)
Movie
Spirka Shpandyr - pickpocket
Karyera Spirki Shpandyrya (1926)
Movie
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1926
1942
1963
1991
1991
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1895-03-21
Deathday1982-03-09 (86 years old)
Birth NameLazar Weissbein
Birth PlaceOdesa, Ukraine
ChildrenEdit Utesova
CitizenshipsRussian Empire, Soviet Union
Also Known AsЛеонид Утесов, Леонид Утёсов
AwardsJubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "Veteran of Labour", Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of the October Revolution, Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow", Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad", Order of the Red Banner of Labour, People's Artist of the USSR, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", People's Artist of the RSFSR, Merited Artist of the RSFSR
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