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Don Borisenko

1939 - 2014 (age 74) • Acting

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

The Psychopath

64%

Donald Loftis

1966

Nine Hours to Rama

62%

Naryan Apte

1963

During One Night

54%

David

1961

Gideon's Way

70%

Alan Blake

1965

Ivy League Killers

70%

Don

1959

Reddick

100%

Gower

1971

Story Parade

80%

Bud Corliss

1964

The Hired Gun

90%
1961

The Laughing Policeman

62%

Collins

1973

Black Gunn

60%

Val

1972

Reddick

100%

Gower

1971

The Psychopath

64%

Donald Loftis

1966

Genghis Khan

57%

Jebai

1965

Gideon's Way

70%

Alan Blake

1965

Story Parade

80%

Bud Corliss

1964

Nine Hours to Rama

62%

Naryan Apte

1963

The Hired Gun

90%
1961

During One Night

54%

David

1961

Ivy League Killers

70%

Don

1959

Now That April's Here

80%

David Munro

1958

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