Elya Baskin
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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Known For
Filmography
| Movie | I Love Us | Ira Prince | 2021-09-17 |
| Movie | Legacy | Boranovic | 2020-05-28 |
| Movie | Supervized | Brian | 2019-07-16 |
| Series | MacGyver | Alexander Orlov | 2016-09-23 |
| Movie | The Hive | Yuri Yegorov | 2015-09-14 |
| Movie | Silent Screams | Andrei | 2015-04-03 |
| Movie | Jimmy P. | Dr. Jokl | 2013-09-11 |
| Movie | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Cosmonaut Dimitri | 2011-06-28 |
| Movie | Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright | Letvinko | 2010-12-28 |
| Series | Rizzoli & Isles | Dr. Vladmir Papov | 2010-07-12 |
| Movie | God's Smile | 2009-12-03 | |
| Movie | Angels & Demons | Cardinal Petrov | 2009-04-23 |
| Movie | The Dukes | Murph Sinitsky | 2007-04-23 |
| Movie | Spider-Man 3 | Mr. Ditkovitch | 2007-05-01 |
| Series | Heroes | Ivan Spector | 2006-09-25 |
| Movie | The Elder Son | Uncle Fedya | 2006-01-01 |
| Series | Criminal Minds | Unknown | 2005-09-22 |
| Series | The Closer | Unknown | 2005-06-13 |
| Movie | Wheelmen | Vladimir | 2005-06-03 |
| Movie | Spider-Man 2 | Mr. Ditkovitch | 2004-06-25 |
| Series | Cold Case | Unknown | 2003-09-28 |
| Series | Alias | Unknown | 2001-09-30 |
| Series | The Agency | Unknown | 2001-09-27 |
| Movie | Thirteen Days | Anotoly Dobrinyn | 2000-12-25 |
| Series | The Invisible Man | Unknown | 2000-06-09 |
| Movie | Runaway Virus | Father Vadim | 2000-01-29 |
| Movie | October Sky | Ike Bykovsky | 1999-02-19 |
| Movie | Running Red | Strelkin | 1999-03-30 |
| Series | The West Wing | Unknown | 1999-09-22 |
| Movie | Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest | Boris | 1997-11-02 |
| Movie | Air Force One | Andrei Kolchak | 1997-07-25 |
| Movie | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | General Borschevsky | 1997-05-02 |
| Movie | Spy Hard | Professor Ukrinsky | 1996-05-24 |
| Movie | Love Affair | Ship Captain | 1994-10-21 |
| Movie | The Pickle | Russian Cap Driver | 1993-04-30 |
| Movie | Enemies, a Love Story | Yaska Kobik | 1989-12-13 |
| Movie | Big Man on Campus | Taxi Driver (uncredited) | 1989-12-12 |
| Series | True Blue | Yuri | 1989-12-03 |
| Movie | DeepStar Six | Burciaga | 1989-01-13 |
| Movie | Zits | Timoshenko | 1988-07-07 |
| Movie | Streets of Gold | Klebanov | 1986-01-01 |
| Movie | My Town | Slovack | 1986-05-25 |
| Movie | The Name of the Rose | Severinus | 1986-09-24 |
| Movie | Combat Academy | Interpreter | 1986-11-23 |
| Series | MacGyver | Unknown | 1985-09-29 |
| Movie | Embassy | Aelx Serov | 1985-04-21 |
| Movie | 2010 | Maxim Brailovsky | 1984-12-06 |
| Movie | Moscow on the Hudson | Anatoly Cherkasov | 1984-04-06 |
| Series | Masquerade | Unknown | 1983-12-15 |
| Series | St. Elsewhere | Unknown | 1982-10-26 |
| Movie | American Pop | Tuba Player (voice) | 1981-02-13 |
| Movie | Raise the Titanic | Marganin | 1980-08-01 |
| Movie | Being There | Karpatov | 1979-12-19 |
| Movie | Butch and Sundance: The Early Days | Book-keeper | 1979-06-15 |
| Movie | The World's Greatest Lover | Actor with Bad Breath | 1977-12-18 |
| Movie | The Long Recess | red-haired student | 1972-06-06 |
| Movie | Telegram | 1972-05-15 |