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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.    

Filmography

2009
Angels & Demons

as Cardinal Petrov

Movie
2007
Spider-Man 3

as Mr. Ditkovitch

Movie
2004
Spider-Man 2

as Mr. Ditkovitch

Movie
1997
Air Force One

as Andrei Kolchak

Movie
1997
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

as General Borschevsky

Movie
1996
Spy Hard

as Professor Ukrinsky

Movie
1994
Love Affair

as Ship Captain

Movie
1986
The Name of the Rose

as Severinus

Movie
1984
2010

as Maxim Brailovsky

Movie