Boris Amarantov

Boris Georgievich Amarantov (; September 19, 1940 – March 3, 1987) was a Soviet variety actor and director.

Early life Amarantov was born on September 19, 1940, in Moscow into the family of a dynastic priest.

After five failed attempts to enroll in Moscow's State College of Circus and Variety Arts, Amarantov was successful on his sixth application, supported by well-known clown-mime Leonid Yengibarov, who was a member of the selection committee.

In the same year he was awarded at the VIII World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki, Finland making an impression with his act Save the World (Nuclear Worker Failed), which warned of the threat of an escalating Cold War. The spot was based on the combination and contrast of two different songs: Top, Тop, Stomping the Вaby by Tamara Miansarova and a composition called I Want You to Be My Baby, performed by American singer Lillian Briggs.

Soon Amarantov created his own theater of pantomime. Amarantov, Grigory Chukhray and Mark Donskoy staged the performance Miracles in His Bag which proved to be a success. and he started working as a night watchman. In July 1975, he wrote a letter to the Supreme Soviet Presidium with a statement renouncing his Soviet citizenship and requesting the right to exit from the USSR to the West, this request was refused. The official cause of death has not been revealed to this day. He was buried at the Vostryakovskoye Cemetery in its 129th section.

Filmography Evening in Moscow (short, 1962) as juggler On Tomorrow's Street (1965) as mim Boris Amarantov Fair Wind, "Blue Bird"! (1967) as Lorimur Love for Three Oranges (TV, 1970) as Tartaglio The Big Attraction (1974) as mim