Boris Sichkin

Boris Sichkin ( Russian Борис Михайлович Сичкин , Ukrainian Борис Михайлович Січкін , born August 15, 1922 in Kiev ; † March 22, 2002 in New York City ) was a Soviet-American actor, dancer and choreographer. Sichkin studied from 1937 to 1941 at the ballet school in Kiev and danced in the folk dance ensemble of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic . He later choreographed several ballet performances. From 1941 to 1946 he was a member of a front ensemble with the People's Artist of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Yuri Tymoshenko, Yuchym Berezin, Oleksandr Segal and the choreographer Borys Kamenkovytsch, 1947-48 soloist of the song and dance ensemble AW Alexandrovna of the Red Army, after which he worked until 1966 at mos concert . From 1955 he was a member of the cabaret ensemble Синяя птичка (Blue Bird), for which he worked as a copywriter and choreographer, and worked for the "Backstage" theater Kroschka and the bandleader Eddie Rosner . He also published the book "Я из Одессы, зедрассы" ! " (I'm from Odessa , hello!). As an actor he only became known when he was over forty years old in the role of Buba Kastorski in the film "Неуловимые мстители" (The Unreachable Avengers, 1966).

In 1973, Sichkin was arrested in Tambov for alleged embezzlement of state property, but acquitted at the end of an investigation lasting several years. In 1979 he emigrated to the USA, where he worked on several films a. a. participated in the role of Leonid Brezhnev and appeared in variety shows as a soloist or with his wife Galina Rybak . In the 1990s he also took on roles in two Russian films. His son Emilian Sichkin became known as a composer. In the fictional ZDF documentary The Third World War from 1998, he played the Soviet ruler General Soshkin, who at the end of this film plunged the world into a nuclear inferno.

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• kino-teatr.ru - Сичкин Борис Михайлович
• Boris Sichkin in the Internet Movie Database (English)