Elya 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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia], 1950-08-11

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1972	Telegram		40
2	1972	The Long Recess	red-haired student	75
3	1977	The World's Greatest Lover	Actor with Bad Breath	58
4	1979	Butch and Sundance: The Early Days	Book-keeper	48
5	1979	Being There	Karpatov	76
6	1980	Raise the Titanic	Marganin	53
7	1981	American Pop	Tuba Player (voice)	68
8	1984	Moscow on the Hudson	Anatoly Cherkasov	62
9	1984	2010	Maxim Brailovsky	66
10	1985	Embassy	Aelx Serov	0
11	1986	Streets of Gold	Klebanov	55
12	1986	My Town	Slovack	0
13	1986	The Name of the Rose	Severinus	75
14	1986	Combat Academy	Interpreter	53
15	1988	Vice Versa	Kerschner	58
16	1988	Zits	Timoshenko	46
17	1989	DeepStar Six	Burciaga	55
18	1989	Big Man on Campus	Taxi Driver (uncredited)	62
19	1989	Enemies, a Love Story	Yaska Kobik	63
20	1993	Walker, Texas Ranger: One Riot, One Ranger	Misha	65
21	1993	The Pickle	Russian Cap Driver	48
22	1994	Love Affair	Ship Captain	54
23	1996	Spy Hard	Professor Ukrinsky	54
24	1997	Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery	General Borschevsky	66
25	1997	Air Force One	Andrei Kolchak	65
26	1997	Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest	Boris	69
27	1999	October Sky	Ike Bykovsky	77
28	1999	Running Red	Strelkin	53
29	2000	Runaway Virus	Father Vadim	67
30	2000	Thirteen Days	Anotoly Dobrinyn	70
31	2004	Spider-Man 2	Mr. Ditkovitch	73
32	2005	Wheelmen	Vladimir	0
33	2006	The Elder Son	Uncle Fedya	62
34	2006	Color of the Cross		30
35	2007	The Dukes	Murph Sinitsky	46
36	2007	Spider-Man 3	Mr. Ditkovitch	64
37	2007	Say It in Russian		35
38	2009	Angels & Demons	Cardinal Petrov	67
39	2009	God's Smile		61
40	2010	Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright	Letvinko	50
41	2011	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Cosmonaut Dimitri	62
42	2013	Jimmy P.	Dr. Jokl	61
43	2015	Silent Screams	Andrei	47
44	2015	The Hive	Yuri Yegorov	54
45	2017	Chicanery	Boris Namarov	60
46	2019	Hit Me	Voice of Mr. Ditkovich	0
47	2019	Supervized	Brian	49
48	2020	Legacy	Boranovic	61
49	2021	I Love Us	Ira Prince	42
50	2024	Reagan	B.E. Kertchman	61
51	2025	Guys' Night in The Thing	Voice of Mr. Ditkovich	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1977	The San Pedro Beach Bums		55
2	1982	St. Elsewhere		54
3	1983	Masquerade		50
4	1985	The Comedy Factory	Sasha Zhukov	0
5	1985	MacGyver	Yuri Demetri	77
6	1987	CBS Summer Playhouse	Serge	63
7	1988	Roseanne		68
8	1989	Coach	Police Officer	69
9	1989	Quantum Leap	Major Yuri Kosenko	80
10	1989	True Blue	Yuri	62
11	1990	Northern Exposure	Nikolai Apalanov	78
12	1991	Sisters		73
13	1992	The Larry Sanders Show		77
14	1992	Mad About You	Vladimir	67
15	1993	Walker, Texas Ranger	Misha	70
16	1993	Walker, Texas Ranger	Corp. Yuri Petrovsky	70
17	1994	Ellen	Sergei	63
18	1995	VR.5	Dr. Zoloft	67
19	1996	Something So Right	Yuri	45
20	1996	Early Edition		73
21	1997	Alright Already		0
22	1998	Felicity	Bela	65
23	1998	Becker	Alexei	72
24	1999	The West Wing	Mr. Zubatov	82
25	2000	The Invisible Man	Dimitri Yevchenko	70
26	2001	The Agency		68
27	2001	Alias	Josef Vlachko	67
28	2003	Cold Case	Dr. Goran Petrovic	78
29	2005	The Closer	Priest	79
30	2005	Criminal Minds	Arseny Lysowsky	83
31	2006	Heroes	Ivan Spector	75
32	2009	Castle	Sergei Vetotchkin	80
33	2009	Celebrity Ghost Stories	Self	73
34	2010	Rizzoli & Isles	Dr. Vladmir Papov	79
35	2011	Homeland	Viktor	76
36	2015	Chicago Med	Dr. Mischa Lenkov	83
37	2016	MacGyver	Alexander Orlov	73
38	2022	The Rookie: Feds	Consul General Viktar Saroka	75