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.
Known for
Jolly Fellows
Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
I Am Returning Your Portrait
himself (archive)
Old Record
Archive voice footage
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
Himself
Concert on the Screen
Arkadiy Raykin
Self
The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
Spirka Shpandyr
Мелодии Дунаевского
Variety Stars
How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!
archiveFootage
Concert for the Front
Self
The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt
Zarudniy
Memories of the "Cow March"
(archive footage)
Чужие
Red soldier Egorov