Boris Tenin
# Boris Tenin

Boris Mikhailovich Tenin (Russian: 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)
