Boris Seidenberg

Boris Ilyich Seidenberg (; 21 May 1929, Odesa, Soviet Union - 20 October 2000, Odesa, Ukraine) was a Soviet actor and a Meritorious Artist of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic.

Biography Seidenberg was interested in acting from an early age. Despite his family's objections, he went to study at the Aleksander Ostrovsky Theater and Art Academy in Tashkent. Though located in the remote Uzbek SSR, the academy's staff consisted of some of the Soviet Union's best dramatists, who moved in there from Moscow and Leningrad after being blacklisted as rootless cosmopolitans during Andrei Zhdanov's artistic purges.

After graduating at 1950, Seidenberg joined the cast of the Alexander Pushkin Dramatical Theater in Magnitogorsk. After three years there, he began acting in the Bryansk Regional Theater. His work on the stage earned him the title Meritorious Artist of the Russian SFSR on 1961. Seidenberg moved to the Odesa Russian Theater at 1962, where he performed a wide range of characters; his appearances as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet were especially praised by critics. He also depicted Cyrano de Bergerac, King Lear, Hamlet and many other Shakespearean protagonists.

At 1964, Seidenberg directed his first play, an adaptation of Kennen Sie die Milchstraße? by . He later directed more than thirty stage productions, mainly in the Russian Theater but also in the Vasilko Musical-Dramatical Theater in Odesa. He also held the tenure of an associate professor in the municipal Antonina Nezhdanova Conservatory's opera department. Seidenberg continued directing and producing plays until his death.

He made his debut on screen as cavalryman Emelyanov in the 1965 film Viper, based on the 1928 eponymous novel by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. The film was received positively and viewed by 34 million people, making it the seventh highest-grossing Soviet film of the year. Seidenberg appeared in more than forty films altogether.

Partial filmography

1965: The Viper - Dmitriy Yemelyanov 1967: Poisk - Nikolay Kuzmich Chebotar 1967: The Search 1967: Wedding bells 1968: Tikhaya Odessa - Komendant 1968: Sluchay iz sledstvennoy praktiki - Commander 1969: I'm His Betrothed - Innokentiy Nekrasov 1970: Liberation I: The Fire Bulge - Major Orlov 1970: Liberation II: Breakthrough - Major Orlov 1970: Krutoy gorizont - Kostenko 1971: Liberation III: Direction of the Main Blow - Orlov 1971: Criminal Inspector - Yevgeniy Mironov - sledovatel prokuratory 1972: Insolence - Vosaglik Yozef 1972: Ofitser zapasa - Buzhor 1972: Petka v kosmose 1972: Lyogkaya voda - Ramazanov 1973: The Washington Correspondent (TV Movie) - Jeff Bradford 1973: More nashey nadezhdy - Stepan Pavlyuk 1973: Budni ugolovnogo rozyska - Yevgeniy Mironov - podpolkovnik 1973: The Great Battle - Major Orlov 1973: Zarubki na pamyat - Nikolay Zherdan 1974: Skvorets i Lira - Kringli 1974: Countermeasure - Garak 1975: Suse, liebe Suse - Boris 1975: Black Caravan - Garak 1975: Sleduyu svoim kursom - Sergey Mikhaylovich Eltsov (narrator) 1975: Chto s toboy proiskhodit - Lew Ivanovits 1975: Chyornyy karavan 1977: Svidetelstvo o bednosti - Direktor chasovogo zavoda (narrator, uncredited) 1979: Krepost - Zhuravlyov 1979: Vsyo reshayet mgnoveniye - Aleksandr Palinov, glavnyy trener sbornoy 1980: Deputatskiy chas 1981: Cherez Gobi i Khingan - General-leytenant 1981: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (TV Movie) 1983: Through the Gobi Desert and Xing'an 1985: Sopernitsy - Vasiliy Lashin 1985: The Temptation of Don Giovanni - Starejshina 1986: Train Off Schedule - Nachalnik zheleznoy dorogi 1986: Opponents 1987: Okhota na drakona 1987: Vash spetsialnyi korrespondent - Mihai Spinu 1991: Pokhorony na vtorom etazhe - Zaborin 1993: Ya sama - Prokuror 1998: Poyezd do Bruklina - Budko (final film role)