In the years 1937-1946 - artist of the Leningrad Comedy Theater. Since 1946 - actor of the Studio Theater of the film actor in Moscow. In the years 1955-1962 - actor of the Moscow Theater of Satire. Since 1962 - actor of the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. Since 1974 - actor of the Academic Theater named after Vladimir Mayakovsky. In 1933, he taught clowning at the Moscow Circus College, in 1935 he acted as a clown in the arena of the Moscow Circus. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (03/11/1939). People's Artist of the Tajik SSR (05.01.1944) (from 1941 to 1944, the troupe of the Leningrad Comedy Theater worked in evacuation in Tajikistan). People's Artist of the RSFSR (03/06/1950). People's Artist of the USSR (10/22/1981). Boris Mikhailovich was married to actresses Olga Ivanova (first wife of Grigory Alexandrov) and Lydia Sukharevskaya. Boris Tenin suddenly died in Moscow on September 8, 1990, one second from a cardiac arrest. He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery. The actor died a year before the collapse of the Soviet Union, and in October 1991 his wife, Lydia Sukharevskaya, passed away.
The Nice Life
Швейк готовится к бою
Kilometer Zero
Let's Remember, Comrades
Hello, Moscow!
(Playwright (as B. Tenin))
Behind Show Windows
(Egor Petrovich Bozhko, Sonya's father)
Without Dowry
(Vasili Danilovich Vozhevatov)
Golden Mountains
(Windy)
The Russian Question
(Murphy)
Shame
(Vasya)
The Man with the Gun
(Pvt. Ivan Shadrin)
The Fall of Berlin
(Gen. Chujkov)
The New Adventures of Schweik
For the Power of the Soviets
Lermontov
(Apollon Golofeyev)
Nesterka
(Nesterka)
Alitet Leaves for the Hills
Przhevalsky
Lace
The Paradise Apples
(Socrates)
Cecile is Dead
(Maigret)
Yakov Sverdlov
Maigret and the Man on the Bench
(Maigret)
Maigret and the Old Lady
(Maigret)
Maigret Hesitates
(Maigret)
The Death of "Appy Niebuhr"
(captain Niybur)
Life of Klim Samgin
(Yakov Samgin - dydya Klima)
Yabloko razdora
(Larion Ivanovich Koval, retired colonel)
Drama
(Pavel Vassilievich)
Song of Happiness
(Горох / Цыбуля)
Paths of Enemies
(Roman Kargapolov, former shepherd)
Как уходили кумиры
(Himself / ArchiveFootage)