Boris Tenin

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mikhailovich and the family name is Tenin.

Boris Mikhailovich Tenin (Russian: Бори́с Миха́йлович Те́нин; 23 March 1905, Kuznetsk – 8 September 1990, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1981).^[1]

Boris Tenin PAU
Born	Boris Mikhailovich Tenin (1905-03-23)23 March 1905 Kuznetsk, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	8 September 1990(1990-09-08) (aged 85) Moscow, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)	Actor, theater pedagogue
Years active	1922–1990
Spouse	Lidiya Sukharevskaya

Biography

Boris Tenin was born in Kuznetsk in a family of a railroad telegraphist.^[2]

He was married to Lidiya Sukharevskaya until his death in Moscow, 1990.^[3]

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)