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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.
Elya Baskin. Highest Rated: 93% Spider-Man 2 (2004) Lowest Rated: 7% Spy Hard (1996) Birthday: Aug 11, 1950. Birthplace: Riga, Latvia, USSR. With the East European accent of his birth still ...
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With the East European accent of his birth still evident in his speech, Elya Baskin has usually been cast to type in a wide variety of roles, from Russian spy to a naturalized American cop. Born in Riga, Latvia, he attended Moscow's prestigious Theatre and Variety Arts College and was subsequently accepted at the Moscow Comedy Theatre where he w...
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Actor. Birth Details. January 24, 1951. Riga, Latvia. Famous Works. CREDITS. Film Appearances. Actor with bad breath, The World's Greatest Lover, 1977. Karpatov (Russian aide), Being There (also known as Chance ), United Artists, 1979. Bookkeeper, Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979.
Russian-born actor Elya Zalmonovich Baskin emigrated to the United States in 1976. He made his American film debut a year later in Gene Wilder’s “The World’s Greatest Lover” and forged his early career with minor parts in films like Butch and Sundance: The Early Years and the critically-acclaimed Being There
Tall, instantly identifiable Eastern European actor Elya Baskin fit the bill in Hollywood for ethnic character portrayals, especially characters with a Slavic background and an amiable demeanor; he also frequently exhibited a slightly zany undercurrent that became something of a trademark.
