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Leonid Utyosov

Mar 21, 1895 - Mar 09, 1982 (86 years old) in Odessa, Odessa uyezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire

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

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