Elya Baskin

Actor

Born: August 11, 1950 (age 75)
From: Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia]

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…

Filmography (53)

Guys' Night in The Thing (2025)
Voice of Mr. Ditkovich
Reagan (2024)
B.E. Kertchman
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose (2022)
Self
I Love Us (2021)
Ira Prince
Legacy (2020)
Boranovic
Supervized (2019)
Brian
Hit Me (2019)
Voice of Mr. Ditkovich
Chicanery (2017)
Boris Namarov
The Hive (2015)
Yuri Yegorov
Silent Screams (2015)
Andrei
Jimmy P. (2013)
Dr. Jokl
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Cosmonaut Dimitri
Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright (2010)
Letvinko
God's Smile (2009)
Angels & Demons (2009)
Cardinal Petrov
Say It in Russian (2007)
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Mr. Ditkovitch
The Dukes (2007)
Murph Sinitsky
Color of the Cross (2006)
The Elder Son (2006)
Uncle Fedya
Wheelmen (2005)
Vladimir
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Mr. Ditkovitch
Thirteen Days (2000)
Anotoly Dobrinyn
Runaway Virus (2000)
Father Vadim
Running Red (1999)
Strelkin
October Sky (1999)
Ike Bykovsky
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest (1997)
Boris
Air Force One (1997)
Andrei Kolchak
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
General Borschevsky
Forest Warrior (1996)
Buster