Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 11, 1950
Place of Birth
Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia]
Credits
92 titles
Elya Baskin
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.
Known For
Filmography
Guys' Night in The Thing
Voice of Mr. Ditkovich
Reagan
B.E. Kertchman
The Rookie: Feds
Consul General Viktar Saroka
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Self
I Love Us
Ira Prince
Legacy
Boranovic
Supervized
Brian
Hit Me
Voice of Mr. Ditkovich
Jangan Benci Cintaku
Chicanery
Boris Namarov
MacGyver
Alexander Orlov
Chicago Med
Dr. Mischa Lenkov
The Hive
Yuri Yegorov
Silent Screams
Andrei
Madam Secretary
Ditro Pirosmani
Jimmy P.
Dr. Jokl
Homeland
Viktor
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Cosmonaut Dimitri
Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright
Letvinko
Rizzoli & Isles
Dr. Vladmir Papov
God's Smile
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Self
Angels & Demons
Cardinal Petrov
Castle
Sergei Vetotchkin
Say It in Russian
Spider-Man 3
Mr. Ditkovitch
The Dukes
Murph Sinitsky
Color of the Cross
Heroes
Ivan Spector
The Elder Son
Uncle Fedya
Criminal Minds
Arseny Lysowsky
The Closer
Priest
Wheelmen
Vladimir
Spider-Man 2
Mr. Ditkovitch
Cold Case
Dr. Goran Petrovic
Alias
Josef Vlachko
The Agency
Borovinsky
Thirteen Days
Anotoly Dobrinyn
The Invisible Man
Dimitri Yevchenko
Runaway Virus
Father Vadim
The West Wing
Mr. Zubatov
Running Red
Strelkin
October Sky
Ike Bykovsky
Becker
Alexei
Felicity
Bela
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
Boris
Alright Already
Air Force One
Andrei Kolchak
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
General Borschevsky
Forest Warrior
Buster