Elya Baskin
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.
Known For
Severinus
The Name of the Rose
Mr. Ditkovitch
Spider-Man 2
Mr. Ditkovitch
Spider-Man 3
Ira Prince
I Love Us
General Borschevsky
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Anatoly Cherkasov
Moscow on the Hudson
Burciaga
DeepStar Six
Andrei Kolchak
Air Force One
Boris Namarov
Chicanery
Cardinal Petrov
Angels & Demons
Ike Bykovsky
October Sky
Russian Cap Driver
The Pickle
Karpatov
Being There
Улыбка Бога, или Чисто одесская история
Murph Sinitsky
The Dukes
Voice of Mr. Ditkovich
Hit Me
Letvinko
Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright
Strelkin
Running Red
Tuba Player (voice)
American Pop
Yaska Kobik
Enemies, a Love Story
Vladimir
Wheelmen
Dr. Jokl
Jimmy P.
red-haired student
Большая перемена
Slovack
My Town
Boris
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
Actor with Bad Breath
The World's Greatest Lover
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Big Man on Campus
Aelx Serov
Embassy
Interpreter
Combat Academy
Maxim Brailovsky
2010
Color of the Cross
Uncle Fedya
The Elder Son
Yuri Yegorov
The Hive
Ship Captain
Love Affair
Professor Ukrinsky
Spy Hard
Klebanov
Streets of Gold
Andrei
Silent Screams
Телеграмма
Father Vadim
Runaway Virus
Brian
Supervized
Book-keeper
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
Cosmonaut Dimitri
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Boranovic
Legacy
Marganin
Raise the Titanic
Anotoly Dobrinyn
Thirteen Days
Timoshenko
Zits
Misha
Walker, Texas Ranger: One Riot, One Ranger
Say It in Russian
B.E. Kertchman
Reagan
Kerschner
Vice Versa
Voice of Mr. Ditkovich
Guys' Night in The Thing
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
51
Gender
Male
Birthday
1950-08-11
Place of Birth
Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia]
Also Known As
Elya Zalmanovich Baskin