
Age: 75
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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.

Elya Baskin

Mr. Ditkovich
for Mr. Ditkovich in Spider-Man 3 (My Story)
Suggested by khabib

In "Spider-Man 3", directed by Sam Raimi, the plot unfolds around Flint Marko, known as Sandman, who seeks a chance at redemption. Now working for the cunning mayor of New York, Wilson Fisk, Marko seeks to raise money for medical treatment for his daughter, Penny, but Marko receives only crumbs and being treated badly by Fisk, after an attempted robbery, escapes from the police and falling into a collider, Flint Marko changes after becoming Sandman and seeking revenge against Wilson Fisk. While Spider-Man faces the threat of Sandman, Fisk, in his quest to get rid of his neighborhood's friend, offers the villain an alliance. Fisk promises a fortune in exchange for Spider-Man's capture, turning Marko into a crucial piece in his strategy. As the Sandman oscillates between seeking money to save his daughter and personal redemption, Peter Parker finds himself entangled in a web of moral complexities and escalating threats. In the end, with Marko discovering through his ex-wife that Penny's illness has no cure, Marko also discovers that he was being manipulated by Fisk into committing various barbarities, with him helping Peter but the epic battle revolving around Spider-Man and Kingpin, after the truth was told and it came out in the Daily Bugle that the current mayor is a corrupt criminal