Ilya 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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- Born:
- Aug 11, 1950 In Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia]
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 88
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Telegram 1972-05-15
- Latest Project:
- Movie Guys' Night in The Thing 2025-01-01
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Guys' Night in The Thing | Voice of Mr. Ditkovich | 2025-01-01 |
| Movie | Reagan | B.E. Kertchman | 2024-08-29 |
| Series | The Rookie: Feds | Consul General Viktar Saroka | 2022-09-27 |
| Movie | I Love Us | Ira Prince | 2021-09-17 |
| Movie | Legacy | Boranovic | 2020-05-28 |
| Movie | Hit Me | Voice of Mr. Ditkovich | 2019-01-15 |
| Movie | Supervized | Brian | 2019-07-16 |
| Movie | Chicanery | Boris Namarov | 2017-04-29 |
| Series | MacGyver | Alexander Orlov | 2016-09-23 |
| Movie | Silent Screams | Andrei | 2015-04-03 |
| Movie | The Hive | Yuri Yegorov | 2015-09-14 |
| Series | Chicago Med | Dr. Mischa Lenkov | 2015-11-17 |
| Movie | Jimmy P. | Dr. Jokl | 2013-09-11 |
| Movie | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Cosmonaut Dimitri | 2011-06-28 |
| Series | Homeland | Viktor | 2011-10-02 |
| Series | Rizzoli & Isles | Dr. Vladmir Papov | 2010-07-12 |
| Movie | Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright | Letvinko | 2010-12-28 |
| Series | Castle | Sergei Vetotchkin | 2009-03-09 |
| Movie | Angels & Demons | Cardinal Petrov | 2009-04-20 |
| Series | Celebrity Ghost Stories | Self | 2009-10-03 |
| Movie | God's Smile | 2009-12-03 | |
| Movie | The Dukes | Murph Sinitsky | 2007-04-23 |
| Movie | Say It in Russian | 2007-09-01 | |
| Movie | Spider-Man 3 | Mr. Ditkovitch | 2007-05-01 |
| Movie | The Elder Son | Uncle Fedya | 2006-01-01 |
| Series | Heroes | Ivan Spector | 2006-09-25 |
| Movie | Color of the Cross | 2006-11-09 | |
| Movie | Wheelmen | Vladimir | 2005-06-03 |
| Series | Criminal Minds | Arseny Lysowsky | 2005-09-22 |
| Series | The Closer | Priest | 2005-06-13 |
| Movie | Spider-Man 2 | Mr. Ditkovitch | 2004-06-25 |
| Series | Cold Case | Dr. Goran Petrovic | 2003-09-28 |
| Series | The Agency | Unknown | 2001-09-27 |
| Series | Alias | Josef Vlachko | 2001-09-30 |
| Movie | Runaway Virus | Father Vadim | 2000-01-29 |
| Series | The Invisible Man | Dimitri Yevchenko | 2000-06-09 |
| Movie | Thirteen Days | Anotoly Dobrinyn | 2000-12-25 |
| Movie | October Sky | Ike Bykovsky | 1999-02-19 |
| Movie | Running Red | Strelkin | 1999-03-30 |
| Series | The West Wing | Mr. Zubatov | 1999-09-22 |
| Series | Felicity | Bela | 1998-09-29 |
| Series | Becker | Alexei | 1998-11-02 |
| Movie | Air Force One | Andrei Kolchak | 1997-07-25 |
| Movie | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | General Borschevsky | 1997-05-02 |
| Series | Alright Already | Unknown | 1997-09-07 |
| Movie | Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest | Boris | 1997-11-02 |
| Movie | Spy Hard | Professor Ukrinsky | 1996-05-24 |
| Series | Something So Right | Yuri | 1996-09-17 |
| Series | Early Edition | Unknown | 1996-09-28 |
| Series | VR.5 | Dr. Zoloft | 1995-03-10 |
| Series | Ellen | Sergei | 1994-03-29 |
| Movie | Love Affair | Ship Captain | 1994-10-21 |
| Movie | Walker, Texas Ranger: One Riot, One Ranger | Misha | 1993-04-21 |
| Series | Walker, Texas Ranger | Corp. Yuri Petrovsky | 1993-04-21 |
| Movie | The Pickle | Russian Cap Driver | 1993-04-30 |
| Series | The Larry Sanders Show | Unknown | 1992-08-15 |
| Series | Mad About You | Vladimir | 1992-09-23 |
| Series | Sisters | Unknown | 1991-05-11 |
| Series | Northern Exposure | Nikolai Apalanov | 1990-07-12 |
| Series | Coach | Police Officer | 1989-02-28 |
| Movie | DeepStar Six | Burciaga | 1989-01-13 |
| Series | Quantum Leap | Major Yuri Kosenko | 1989-03-26 |
| Series | True Blue | Yuri | 1989-12-03 |
| Movie | Big Man on Campus | Taxi Driver (uncredited) | 1989-12-12 |
| Movie | Enemies, a Love Story | Yaska Kobik | 1989-12-13 |
| Movie | Vice Versa | Kerschner | 1988-02-25 |
| Movie | Zits | Timoshenko | 1988-07-07 |
| Series | Roseanne | Unknown | 1988-10-18 |
| Series | CBS Summer Playhouse | Serge | 1987-06-12 |
| Movie | My Town | Slovack | 1986-05-25 |
| Movie | The Name of the Rose | Severinus | 1986-09-24 |
| Movie | Streets of Gold | Klebanov | 1986-11-14 |
| Movie | Combat Academy | Interpreter | 1986-11-23 |
| Movie | Embassy | Aelx Serov | 1985-04-21 |
| Series | MacGyver | Yuri Demetri | 1985-09-29 |
| Series | The Comedy Factory | Sasha Zhukov | 1985-06-21 |
| Movie | Moscow on the Hudson | Anatoly Cherkasov | 1984-04-06 |
| Movie | 2010 | Maxim Brailovsky | 1984-12-06 |
| 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 | Butch and Sundance: The Early Days | Book-keeper | 1979-06-15 |
| Movie | Being There | Karpatov | 1979-12-19 |
| Movie | The World's Greatest Lover | Actor with Bad Breath | 1977-12-18 |
| Series | The San Pedro Beach Bums | Unknown | 1977-09-19 |
| Movie | Telegram | Teacher (uncredited) | 1972-05-15 |
| Movie | The Long Recess | red-haired student | 1972-06-06 |