Elya Baskin
Known for Acting
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.
Filmography
Spider-Man 3
2007
as Mr. Ditkovitch
Spider-Man 2
2004
as Mr. Ditkovitch
Angels & Demons
2009
as Cardinal Petrov
2010
1984
as Maxim Brailovsky
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
1997
as General Borschevsky
The Name of the Rose
1986
as Severinus
Air Force One
1997
as Andrei Kolchak
Reagan
2024
as B.E. Kertchman
Spy Hard
1996
as Professor Ukrinsky
October Sky
1999
as Ike Bykovsky
Thirteen Days
2000
as Anotoly Dobrinyn
Forest Warrior
1996
as Buster
Running Red
1999
as Strelkin
Being There
1979
as Karpatov
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
as Cosmonaut Dimitri
Chicanery
2017
as Boris Namarov
Love Affair
1994
as Ship Captain
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
1979
as Book-keeper
Vice Versa
1988
as Kerschner
Raise the Titanic
1980
as Marganin