{{Short description|Estonian actor and theatre director}} thumb|Baskin in 1974 '''Eino Baskin''' (17 June 1929 – 11 March 2015) was an Estonian actor and theatre director.<ref name="kroonika.delfi.ee">{{cite web |title=Suri armastatud näitleja ja lavastaja Eino Baskin |url=https://kroonika.delfi.ee/artikkel/70994743/suri-armastatud-naitleja-ja-lavastaja-eino-baskin |website=Kroonika |access-date=16 February 2021}}</ref>
Baskin was born in Tallinn to Jewish parents Hirsch and Maria Baskin (née Raage).<ref>{{Cite book|title=On the Margins: Essays on the History of Jews in Estonia|last=Weiss-Wendt|first=Anton|date=30 April 2017|publisher=Central European University Press|location=Budapest|isbn=9633861659|language=en}}</ref> In 1951 he graduated from {{interlanguage link|Estonian State Theater Institute|qid=Q12361434}} before becoming engaged at the Estonian Drama Theatre.<ref name="kroonika.delfi.ee"/>
In 1980 he established Vanalinnastuudio and for a long time he was its director. When Vanalinnastuudio was closed, he established Old Baskin's Theater.<ref name="kroonika.delfi.ee"/>
==Personal life== In 1954, he married actress Ita Ever. Their son was actor and director Roman Baskin. The couple later divorced. He married his second wife, Galina Dõrdina 1961, with whom he had a daughter who died in infancy. The couple remained married for 38 years, until Dõrdina's death in 1999. In 2000, he married Veera Toll. The couple remained married until Baskin's death in Tallinn in 2015. Baskin also had a daughter, actress Katrin Pärn, from a relationship with actress, theologian and politician Malle Pärn in 1977.<ref name="kroonika.delfi.ee"/>
==Selected filmography== * ''Tagahoovis'' (1957) * ''Juhuslik kohtumine'' (1961) * ''Bonycrone and Captain Drum'' (1978) * ''Kolm rubiini'' (1978) * ''Murder on the 31st Floor Part I'' (1979) * ''Teisikud'' (1982) * ''The Triangle'' (1982) * ''Õnne 13'' (1993–2010) * ''Fox Woman'' (2002) * ''Õpetajate tuba'' (2003) * ''The Visit of the Old Lady'' (2006) * ''ENSV'' (2010)
: Source: EFIS<ref name="EFIS">{{cite web |title=Eino Baskin - Eesti filmi andmebaas |url=https://www.efis.ee/en/filmmakers/filmmaker/id/206 |website=www.efis.ee |access-date=16 February 2021}}</ref>
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