Ilya Baskin
Actor
Biography
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.
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Filmography
Spider-Man 3
as Mr. Ditkovitch 2007
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
as Cosmonaut Dimitri 2011
Angels & Demons
as Cardinal Petrov 2009
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
as General Borschevsky 1997
The Name of the Rose
as Severinus 1986
Air Force One
as Andrei Kolchak 1997
October Sky
as Ike Bykovsky 1999
Being There
as Karpatov 1979
2010
as Maxim Brailovsky 1984
Thirteen Days
as Anotoly Dobrinyn 2000
Spy Hard
as Professor Ukrinsky 1996
DeepStar Six
as Burciaga 1989
Moscow on the Hudson
as Anatoly Cherkasov 1984
Vice Versa
as Kerschner 1988
Jimmy P.
as Dr. Jokl 2013
American Pop
as Tuba Player (voice) 1981