Actor
Elya Baskin
76 years · Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia] · 55 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 55
Dance With Me
2026 · Sasha
Guys' Night in The Thing
2025 · Voice of Mr. Ditkovich
Reagan
2024 · B.E. Kertchman
On The Roku Channel
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022 · Self
I Love Us
2021 · Ira Prince
On The CW
Legacy
2020 · Boranovic
On Plex
Supervized
2019 · Brian
Hit Me
2019 · Voice of Mr. Ditkovich
Jangan Benci Cintaku
2018 · Actor
Chicanery
2017 · Boris Namarov
The Hive
2015 · Yuri Yegorov
Silent Screams
2015 · Andrei
Jimmy P.
2013 · Dr. Jokl
On Philo
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011 · Cosmonaut Dimitri
On Kanopy
Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright
2010 · Letvinko
On Tubi TV
God's Smile
2009 · Actor
Angels & Demons
2009 · Cardinal Petrov
On fuboTV
Say It in Russian
2007 · Actor
Spider-Man 3
2007 · Mr. Ditkovitch
The Dukes
2007 · Murph Sinitsky
Color of the Cross
2006 · Actor
The Elder Son
2006 · Uncle Fedya
On Plex
Wheelmen
2005 · Vladimir
Spider-Man 2
2004 · Mr. Ditkovitch
On FXNow