Ilya Baskin
Born August 11, 1950 (Age: 75)
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Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia]
Biography
Baskin was born in Riga, the son of Frieda and Zalman Baskin. He attended Moscow's prestigious Theatre and Variety Arts College and won a Festival of Young Actors Award at the Moscow Comedy Theatre. Baskin immigrated to the United States in 1976. He has built a considerable career in TV and movies, and is often cast as a Russian, due to his ancestry and accent. He has ultimately become one of the most popular choices whenever a Russian is needed in a TV-episode or a major movie production. He is also a regular on the long-running Internet program "Outlaw Radio" hosted by Matt Alan, where he makes amusing commentary on contemporary topics, and does comedic interaction with fellow actor Richard Tyson and author Burl Barer, among many others. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elya Baskin, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Baskin was born in Riga, the son of Frieda and Zalman Baskin. He attended Moscow's prestigious Theatre and Variety Arts College and won a Festival of Young Actors Award at the Moscow Comedy Theatre. Baskin immigrated to the United States in 1976. He has built a considerable career in TV and movies, and is often cast as a Russian, due to his ancestry and accent. He has ultimately become one of the most popular choices whenever a Russian is needed in a TV-episode or a major movie production. He is also a regular on the long-running Internet program "Outlaw Radio" hosted by Matt Alan, where he makes amusing commentary on contemporary topics, and does comedic interaction with fellow actor Richard Tyson and author Burl Barer, among many others.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Elya Baskin, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
Reagan
2024
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as B.E. Kertchman
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Age: 74
No Image
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022
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as Self
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Age: 71
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
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as Cosmonaut Dimitri
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Age: 60
Angels & Demons
2009
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as Cardinal Petrov
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Age: 58
Spider-Man 3
2007
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as Mr. Ditkovitch
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Age: 56
Spider-Man 2
2004
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as Mr. Ditkovitch
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Age: 53
Thirteen Days
2000
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as Anotoly Dobrinyn
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Age: 50
Runaway Virus
2000
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as Father Vadim
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Age: 49
October Sky
1999
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as Ike Bykovsky
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Age: 48
Air Force One
1997
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as Andrei Kolchak
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Age: 46
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
1997
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as General Borschevsky
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Age: 46
Spy Hard
1996
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as Professor Ukrinsky
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Age: 45
Love Affair
1994
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as Ship Captain
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Age: 44
Enemies, a Love Story
1989
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as Yaska Kobik
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Age: 39
DeepStar Six
1989
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as Burciaga
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Age: 38
Vice Versa
1988
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as Kerschner
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Age: 37
The Name of the Rose
1986
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as Severinus
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Age: 36
2010
1984
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as Maxim Brailovsky
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Age: 34
Moscow on the Hudson
1984
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as Anatoly Cherkasov
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Age: 33
American Pop
1981
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as Tuba Player (voice)
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Age: 30
Raise the Titanic
1980
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as Marganin
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Age: 29
Being There
1979
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as Karpatov
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Age: 29