Baskin Eino (1929)

Baskin Eino (17.06.1929, Tallinn) – actor, director, and theatre figure.

Eino Baskin’s father, H. Baskin, was the owner of a shop and tailor’s atelier in Riga, before moving to Tallinn in 1920.

Eino Baskin studied at the Tallinn English College and graduated in 1951 from the Estonian SSR State Theatre Institute.

Acting and Theatre Career

  • 1951–1957, 1968–1980 – Actor at the Tallinn Drama Theatre

  • 1961–1964 – Actor at the Estonian SSR State Philharmonic

  • 1958–1961, 1965–1969 – Worked in theatres in Leningrad

  • 1980–2000 – Founder, artistic director, and director of the Old Town Studio Theatre in Tallinn

Comedy and Film

From the 1950s, he became a popular comic actor, known for humorous stage productions and TV entertainment programmes on Estonian television.

He appeared in films such as:

  • Na zadvorkakh (On the Outskirts, 1956)

  • Sluchaynaya vstrecha (Accidental Meeting, 1960)

  • Gibel’ 31-go otdela (The Fall of Section 31, 1980)

Notable Theatre Productions

  • The Twelve Chairs by I. Ilf & E. Petrov (1971)

  • Without Any Doubt by M. Zhvanetsky & P. Aimla (1980)

  • Cyrano de Bergerac by E. Rostand (1986)

  • The Government Inspector by N. Gogol (1987)

Awards and Honours

  • People’s Artist of the Estonian SSR (1988)

  • National Award "Our Mats" (1987)

  • Order of the White Star, 3rd Class (2001)

Memoirs

  • Behind the Iron Curtain (Raudeesriide taga), Pärnu, 1993 (in Estonian)

References

  • Vastab Eino Baskin // Teater. Muusika. Kino. No. 3, 1986

  • Estonian Biographical Dictionary, Tallinn: KRK, 2002, p. 31