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person_profile-Don Borisenko

Don Borisenko Died at age: 74

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Don Borisenko

Date of Birth:

May 22, 1939

Country of birth:

Canada

Died:

Apr 12, 2014

Biography of

Don Borisenko

    Canadian performer who was seen in films and television from late 1950s to the 1970s. Called "the Canadian James Dean", after appearing in several features with success, Borisenko went to England where he had starring roles in two films by fellow Canadians: Sidney J. Furie's wartime melodrama "During One Night" (1960), and Mark Robson's account of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, "Nine Hours to Rama" (1963), in which he played Naryan Apte, the friend of Gandhi's murderer, Nathuram Vinayak Godse (played by Horst Buchholz). After he walked off the set of Robert Aldrich's "The Dirty Dozen" (1967), dissatisfied with his role (which was then given to Donald Sutherland), Borisenko appeared on different television shows, back in Canada and in England. Moving in the 1970s to Los Angeles, he changed his name to Jonas Wolfe, appeared in several films, as "Black Gunn" (1972) and "The Laughing Policeman" (1973), and opened a music club, where he reportedly gave the rock group Van Halen their first paying gig. Borisenko finally retired from acting and dedicated his life to poetry, painting and sculpture.

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Don Borisenko

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Filmography of

Don Borisenko

Found 7 Movies in total

Black Gunn

Val ( Actor )

... 1972

The Psychopath

Donald Loftis ( Actor )

... 1966

... 1965

Nine Hours to Rama

Naryan Apte ( Actor )

... 1963

... 1961

During One Night

David ( Actor )

... 1961

Now That April's Here

David Munro ( Actor )

... 1958