
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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as Voice of Mr. Ditkovich

as B.E. Kertchman

as Ira Prince

as Boranovic

as Brian

as Voice of Mr. Ditkovich

as Boris Namarov

as Yuri Yegorov

as Andrei

as Dr. Jokl

as Cosmonaut Dimitri

as Cardinal Petrov

as Mr. Ditkovitch

as Murph Sinitsky

as Uncle Fedya

as Vladimir

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as Anotoly Dobrinyn

as Father Vadim

as Strelkin

as Ike Bykovsky

as Andrei Kolchak

as General Borschevsky

as Buster

as Professor Ukrinsky

as Ship Captain

as Russian Cap Driver

as Yaska Kobik

as Taxi Driver (uncredited)

as Burciaga

as Timoshenko

as Kerschner

as Interpreter

as Klebanov

as Severinus

as Slovack

as Aelx Serov

as Maxim Brailovsky

as Anatoly Cherkasov

as Tuba Player (voice)

as Marganin

as Karpatov

as Book-keeper

as Actor with Bad Breath

as red-haired student

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