Boris Lyoskin

Boris Lyoskin

Birthday: 1923-01-05

Place of Birth: Petrograd, RSFSR, USSR

Biography: Born in Petrograd, RSFSR, USSR. Participant in the Great Patriotic War. Defended Leningrad as part of the 22nd fortified region. In 1952 he graduated from the Leningrad Ostrovsky Theatre Institute (course of L.F. Makaryev). In 1952-1979 - actor of the Leningrad Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theatre. Since 1980 he lived and worked in the USA. Worked at the Circle in a Square Theatre on Broadway. Acted in episodic roles in American films. Member of the Actors Guild of America, was a member of the Oscar nomination committee.

Movies

Everything Is Illuminated
Everything Is Illuminated

A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woma...

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Vampire's Kiss
Vampire's Kiss

A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He...

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A Very Old Story
A Very Old Story

Based on the famous fairytale "The Tinderbox" by Hans Christian Andersen. The main character of the ...

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World War Three
World War Three

This mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged ...

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The Nick Of Time
The Nick Of Time

A wealthy American businessman, Mr. Clarke, forces his dissolute but charming nephew James to go wit...

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Cold Souls
Cold Souls

Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon ...

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Fear and Despair in the Third Empire
Fear and Despair in the Third Empire

Chronicle dramatic scenes of Germany under the rule of fascism....

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First Visitor
First Visitor

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Conscience Doesn't Forgive
Conscience Doesn't Forgive

Nurdin is a man who failed to protect friendship and love, who retreated before deceit and hypocrisy...

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The Falcon and the Snowman
The Falcon and the Snowman

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend ...

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The Truth! Nothing But the Truth!
The Truth! Nothing But the Truth!

About the trial of the October Revolution, which was organized in 1919 by the US Senate....

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You!
You!

The teleplay was based on V. Mayakovsky’s poems “You!”, “Listen!”, “Conversation with Comrade Lenin”...

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Vanya, How are You Here?
Vanya, How are You Here?

Tractor driver Pronka Lagutin comes to the city. Meeting the director's assistant unexpectedly turns...

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31st Dept.
31st Dept.

The Commissioner of Police has been tasked with conducting an investigation into the threat of a ter...

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Dead Souls
Dead Souls

In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title o...

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Tsarevich Prosha
Tsarevich Prosha

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Next to Us
Next to Us

The engineer and the reporter arrived at one of the plants of the Altai. They have just completed th...

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The Package
The Package

Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Bo...

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Two Sundays
Two Sundays

Lyuska, an employee of the only savings bank in the very young town of Radiozavodsk, wins a nylon fu...

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Kyukhlya
Kyukhlya

A television play based on the life and death of Russian poet and Decembrist Wilhelm "Kyukhlya" Küch...

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Rembrandt
Rembrandt

Several episodes from the Life of the Dutch Painter Harmens van Rijn Rembrandt. Based on the eponymo...

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12 Chairs
12 Chairs

Who was the first to bring the great novel "12 Chairs" to the screen? You say "Leonid Gaidai" - and ...

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The Strogovs
The Strogovs

In the Siberian taiga village of Wolf's Burrows, the Strogov family lives — Matvey with his wife Ann...

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Cadillac Man
Cadillac Man

Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would ...

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The Soul Calls
The Soul Calls

Two old Leningrad workers, Sukhov and Solyanov, have a long-standing friendship — they worked at the...

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The Only One
The Only One

Kolya Kasatkin, who saw in his wife Tanyusha the ideal of female charm, tenderness, kindness, who lo...

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A Couch in New York
A Couch in New York

Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakd...

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Men in Black
Men in Black

After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a t...

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Way Home
Way Home

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The House on Carroll Street
The House on Carroll Street

A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, tak...

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At the Breaking Point
At the Breaking Point

After his father's death, teenager Viktor Tsaplin was sent by his stepmother, who suspected the boy ...

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The Property of Republic
The Property of Republic

Spring of 1918. Tarakanov, managing the estate of Prince Tikhvinsky, with the help of a former court...

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Black and White
Black and White

Black and White is the story of Lisa, a young Soviet emigre studying medicine in Manhattan, Roy, an ...

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Five for Summer
Five for Summer

Funny adventures of two friends in a summer camp....

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Unfinished Story
Unfinished Story

The local doctor Yelizaveta Maksimovna is a beautiful woman and a wonderful sympathetic person. She ...

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The Winter of Our Discontent
The Winter of Our Discontent

A television play from John Steinbeck's novel, performed live for Leningrad Television....

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The Republic of ShKID
The Republic of ShKID

The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and...

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