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Don Borisenko

Known For
Acting

Known Credits
14

Gender
Male

Birthday
May 22, 1939 (87 years old)

Place of Birth
Longbranch, Ontario, Canada

Don Borisenko

Biography

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.

Known For

Acting

1972Black Gunnas Val
1971Reddickas Gower
1966The Psychopathas Donald Loftis
1965Genghis Khanas Jebai
1965Gideon's Wayas Alan Blake
1964Story Paradeas Bud Corliss
1963Espionageas Ivar Kolstrom
1963Nine Hours to Ramaas Naryan Apte
1961The Hired Gunas
1961During One Nightas David
1959Ivy League Killersas Don
1958Now That April's Hereas David Munro
1956Armchair Theatreas
1956Armchair Theatreas Horace Mann Borden

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