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