
Born
1905-03-23 (age 121)
Birthplace
Kuznetsk, Penzenskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Known For
Acting
Boris Tenin
Biography
In the years 1937-1946 - artist of the Leningrad Comedy Theater. Since 1946 - actor of the Studio Theater of the film actor in Moscow. In the years 1955-1962 - actor of the Moscow Theater of Satire. Since 1962 - actor of the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. Since 1974 - actor of the Academic Theater named after Vladimir Mayakovsky. In 1933, he taught clowning at the Moscow Circus College, in 1935 he acted as a clown in the arena of the Moscow Circus. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (03/11/1939). People's Artist of the Tajik SSR (05.01.1944) (from 1941 to 1944, the troupe of the Leningrad Comedy Theater worked in evacuation in Tajikistan). People's Artist of the RSFSR (03/06/1950). People's Artist of the USSR (10/22/1981). Boris Mikhailovich was married to actresses Olga Ivanova (first wife of Grigory Alexandrov) and Lydia Sukharevskaya. Boris Tenin suddenly died in Moscow on September 8, 1990, one second from a cardiac arrest. He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery. The actor died a year before the collapse of the Soviet Union, and in October 1991 his wife, Lydia Sukharevskaya, passed away.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances

The Nice Life
1932

Schweik is Preparing For Battle
1942

Kilometer Zero
2007

Let's Remember, Comrades
1987

Hello, Moscow!
as Playwright (as B. Tenin)
1945

Behind Show Windows
as Egor Petrovich Bozhko, Sonya's father
1956

Without Dowry
as Vasili Danilovich Vozhevatov
1937

Golden Mountains
as Windy
1931

The Russian Question
as Murphy
1948

Shame
as Vasya
1932

The Man with the Gun
as Pvt. Ivan Shadrin
1938

The Fall of Berlin
as Lieutenant General Chuikov
1950

The New Adventures of Schweik
1943

For the Power of the Soviets
1956

Lermontov
as Apollon Golofeyev
1943

Nesterka
as Nesterka
1955

Alitet Leaves for the Hills
as Thomson
1949

Przhevalsky
1951

Lace
1928

The Paradise Apples
as Socrates
1974

