Elya Baskin
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Biography
Baskin was born to a Jewish family in Riga, the son of Frieda and Zalman Baskin.[2] He attended Moscow's prestigious Theatre and Variety Arts College and won a Festival of Young Actors Award at the Moscow Comedy Theatre.[2]
He emigrated to the United States in 1976.[2] He has built a considerable career in TV and film, and is often cast as Eastern European characters, Russian, Bulgarian, etc.[citation needed]
Filmography (selection)
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- The World's Greatest Lover (1977)
- Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979)
- Being There (1979)
- Raise the Titanic (1980)
- American Pop (1981)
- Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
- 2010 (1984)
- A Prisoner of Conscience (1986)
- The Name of the Rose (1986)
- Streets of Gold (1986)
- Combat High (1986)
- Soft Touch (1987)
- Zits (1988)
- Vice Versa (1988)
- DeepStar Six (1989)
- The Slice of Life (1989)
- Enemies: A Love Story (1989)
- War and Peace (1991)
- The Pickle (1993)
- Love Affair (1994)
- Spy Hard (1996)
- Forest Warrior (1996)
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
- Air Force One (1997)
- October Sky (1999)
- Running Red (1999)
- Thirteen Days (2000)
- Heartbreakers (2001)
- 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (2004)
- Spider-Man 2 (2004)
- Spider-Man 3 (2007)
- The Dukes (2007)
- Say It in Russian (2007)
- God's Smile or The Odessa Story (2009)
- Angels & Demons (2009)
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
- Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (2013)
- Silent Screams (2013)
TV appearances
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References
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Elya Baskin profile, filmreference.com; accessed 11 March 2015.
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- 1950 births
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- American people of Latvian-Jewish descent
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- Latvian male film actors
- Latvian emigrants to the United States
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- Living people
- People from Riga
- Soviet emigrants to the United States
