Boris Tenin Explained

Boris Mikhailovich Tenin (; 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]

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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Борис Тенин. 2021-09-29. Кино-Театр.Ру. 16 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210716120645/https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/acter/m/sov/4262/bio/. live.
2. Web site: Борис Михайлович Тенин — Киносозвездие. 2013-01-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20121014165925/http://kinosozvezdie.ru/actors/tenin/tenin.html. 2012-10-14.
3. Web site: Музей-квартира Народных артистов СССР Б. М. Тенина и Л. П. Сухаревской — Москва, Большая Никитская улица, 49 . ru . Справочник Москвы . 2022-03-22.