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Don Borisenko

Don Borisenko

Actor · 1939 – 2014 · Longbranch, Ontario, Canada

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.

Movies10

  • Movie6.2

    The Laughing Policeman

    1973 · 79 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Genghis Khan

    1965 · 57 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Nine Hours to Rama

    1963 · 9 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Black Gunn

    1972 · 22 votes

  • Movie10.0

    Reddick

    1971 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.4

    The Psychopath

    1966 · 35 votes

  • Movie5.4

    During One Night

    1961 · 7 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Now That April's Here

    1958 · 1 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Ivy League Killers

    1959 · 2 votes

  • Movie9.0

    The Hired Gun

    1961 · 1 votes

Series4

  • TV7.0

    Gideon's Way

    1965 · 5 votes

  • TV10.0

    Espionage

    1963 · 1 votes

  • TV8.0

    Story Parade

    1964 · 1 votes

  • TV6.0

    Armchair Theatre

    1956 · 6 votes