Boris Tenin

Boris Mikhailovich Tenin (; 23 March 1905 – 8 September 1990) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR.

Biography Boris Tenin was born in Kuznetsk in a family of a railroad telegraphist.

He was married to Lidiya Sukharevskaya until his death in Moscow, 1990.

Filmography Lace (1928) as Club manager Golden Mountains (1931) as Boris "Shaggy" the stoker Counterplan (1932) as Vasya Without a Dowry (1936) as Vasily Danilych Vozhevatov The Man with the Gun (1938) as Ivan Shadrin Yakov Sverdlov (1940) as Coupletist (uncredited) Hello Moscow! (1945) as Writer The Russian Question (1947) as Bob Murphy Alitet Leaves for the Hills (1949) as Charlie Thomson The Fall of Berlin (1949) as Vasily Chuikov Przhevalsky (1951) as cossack Yegorov The Great Warrior Skanderbeg (1953) as Din Least We Forget (1954) as Maryan Maksimovich Behind Show Windows (1955) as Yegor Petrovich Bozhko For the Power of the Soviets (1956) as Zhora Kolesnichuk

Awards and honors

Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1939) Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1939, for his portrayal of Ivan Shadrin in The Man with the Gun; 1985) People's Artist of the Tajik SSR (1944) Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad" (1946) Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1946) Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" (1948) Stalin Prize, 1st class (1948) for his portrayal of Bob Murphy in The Russian Question People's Artist of the RSFSR (1950) Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad" Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970) Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" People's Artist of the USSR (1981) Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Medal "Veteran of Labour" (1985)