Boris Tenin

Boris Mikhailovich Tenin (Борис Михайлович Тенин; 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).

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)