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Name: Elya Baskin
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Date of Birth:
August 11, 1950
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Place of Birth:
Riga, Latvia
Mini-bio:
Elya Baskin was born in Riga, Latvia and studied at the Moscow Theater and Variety Arts College. He debuted in Hollywood in 1977 with a role in Gene’s Wilder’s “The World’s Greatest Lover.” More than...( read more) 60 different parts in movies and television followed after that. They include the sad clown Anatoly in Paul Mazursky’s “Moscow on the Hudson” with Robin Williams, cosmonaut Max Brailovsky in “2010” with Roy Scheider and Helen Mirren, Brother Severinus in “The Name of the Rose” with Sean Connery and Christian Slater, Russian terrorist Kolchak in “Air force One” with Harrison Ford and Ambassador Dobrinin in “Thirteen Days” with Kevin Costner.
Baskin has recently been seen in “Spiderman 2” and “Spiderman 3” as Peter Parker’s eccentric landlord Mr. Ditkovich.