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Don Borisenko

Born
May 22, 1939 · Aged 74
Died
Apr 12, 2014
Place of birth
Longbranch, Ontario, Canada
Gender
Male
Movie credits
10
TV credits
5
Also known as (2)
  • Jonas Wolfe
  • Donald 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"…