Boris Ilyich Seidenberg (; 21 May 1929, Odesa, Soviet Union - 20 October 2000, Odesa, Ukraine) was a Soviet actor and a Meritorious Artist of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic.

Biography
Seidenberg was interested in acting from an early age. Despite his family's objections, he went to study at the Aleksander Ostrovsky Theater and Art Academy in Tashkent. Though located in the remote Uzbek SSR, the academy's staff consisted of some of the Soviet Union's best dramatists, who moved in there from Moscow and Leningrad after being blacklisted as rootless cosmopolitans during Andrei Zhdanov's artistic purges.

After graduating at 1950, Seidenberg joined the cast of the Alexander Pushkin Dramatical Theater in Magnitogorsk. After three years there, he began acting in the Bryansk Regional Theater. His work on the stage earned him the title Meritorious Artist of the Russian SFSR on 1961. Seidenberg moved to the Odesa Russian Theater at 1962, where he  performed a wide range of characters; his appearances as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet were especially praised by critics. He also depicted Cyrano de Bergerac, King Lear, Hamlet and many other Shakespearean protagonists.

At 1964, Seidenberg directed his first play, an adaptation of Kennen Sie die Milchstraße? by . He later directed more than thirty stage productions, mainly in the Russian Theater but also in the Vasilko Musical-Dramatical Theater in Odesa. He also held the tenure of an associate professor in the municipal Antonina Nezhdanova Conservatory's opera department. Seidenberg continued directing and producing plays until his death.

He made his debut on screen as cavalryman Emelyanov in the 1965 film Viper, based on the 1928 eponymous novel by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. The film was received positively and viewed by 34 million people, making it the seventh highest-grossing Soviet film of the year. Seidenberg appeared in more than forty films altogether.

Partial filmography

1965: The Viper - Dmitriy Yemelyanov
1967: Poisk - Nikolay Kuzmich Chebotar
1967: The Search
1967: Wedding bells
1968: Tikhaya Odessa - Komendant
1968: Sluchay iz sledstvennoy praktiki - Commander
1969: I'm His Betrothed - Innokentiy Nekrasov
1970: Liberation I: The Fire Bulge - Major Orlov
1970: Liberation II: Breakthrough - Major Orlov
1970: Krutoy gorizont - Kostenko
1971: Liberation III: Direction of the Main Blow - Orlov
1971: Criminal Inspector - Yevgeniy Mironov - sledovatel prokuratory
1972: Insolence - Vosaglik Yozef
1972: Ofitser zapasa - Buzhor
1972: Petka v kosmose
1972: Lyogkaya voda - Ramazanov
1973: The Washington Correspondent (TV Movie) - Jeff Bradford
1973: More nashey nadezhdy - Stepan Pavlyuk
1973: Budni ugolovnogo rozyska - Yevgeniy Mironov - podpolkovnik
1973: The Great Battle - Major Orlov
1973: Zarubki na pamyat - Nikolay Zherdan
1974: Skvorets i Lira - Kringli
1974: Revenge
1975: Suse, liebe Suse - Boris
1975: Black Caravan - Garak
1975: Sleduyu svoim kursom - Sergey Mikhaylovich Eltsov (narrator)
1975: Chto s toboy proiskhodit - Lew Ivanovits
1975: Chyornyy karavan
1977: Svidetelstvo o bednosti - Direktor chasovogo zavoda (narrator, uncredited)
1979: Krepost - Zhuravlyov
1979: Vsyo reshayet mgnoveniye - Aleksandr Palinov, glavnyy trener sbornoy
1980: Deputatskiy chas
1981: Cherez Gobi i Khingan - General-leytenant
1981: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (TV Movie)
1983: Through the Gobi Desert and Xing'an
1985: Sopernitsy - Vasiliy Lashin
1985: The Temptation of Don Giovanni - Starejshina
1986: Train Off Schedule - Nachalnik zheleznoy dorogi
1986: Opponents
1987: Okhota na drakona
1987: Vash spetsialnyi korrespondent - Mihai Spinu
1991: Pokhorony na vtorom etazhe - Zaborin
1993: Ya sama - Prokuror
1998: Poyezd do Bruklina - Budko (final film role)

References

External links

1929 births
2000 deaths
Actors from Odesa
Soviet male stage actors
Soviet male film actors
Soviet theatre directors
Ukrainian theatre directors
Honored Artists of the RSFSR
Theatre people from Odesa