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Boris Barnet(1902-1965)

  • Director
  • Actor
  • Writer
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Boris Barnet
Boris Barnet was born on 18 June 1902 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a director and actor, known for The Adventures of the Three Reporters (1926), Secret Agent (1947) and Okraina (1933). He was previously married to Yelena Kuzmina, Natalia Glan, Alla Kazanskaya and Valentina Barnet. He died on 8 January 1965 in Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia].
BornJune 18, 1902
DiedJanuary 8, 1965(62)
BornJune 18, 1902
DiedJanuary 8, 1965(62)
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  • Awards
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Boris Barnet in Dom na Trubnoy (1928)
Boris Barnet and Vera Maretskaya in Dom na Trubnoy (1928)
Boris Barnet in Okraina (1933)

Known for

The Adventures of the Three Reporters (1926)
The Adventures of the Three Reporters
6.9
  • Director
  • 1926
Secret Agent (1947)
Secret Agent
6.7
  • Director(as B. Barnet)
  • 1947
Izrail Bograd in Okraina (1933)
Okraina
7.1
  • Director
  • 1933
Lyana (1955)
Lyana
6.2
  • Director
  • 1955

Credits

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Director

  • Polustanok (1963)
    Polustanok
    • Director
    • 1963
  • Alyonka (1962)
    Alyonka
    • Director
    • 1962
  • Annushka (1959)
    Annushka
    • Director
    • 1959
  • The Wrestler and the Clown (1957)
    The Wrestler and the Clown
    • Director
    • 1957
  • Izolda Izvitskaya, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Vsevolod Larionov, and Sergey Dvoretskiy in Poet (1957)
    Poet
    • Director (as B. Barnet)
    • 1957
  • Lyana (1955)
    Lyana
    • Director
    • 1955
  • Ukrainian Concert Hall
    • Director
    • 1952
  • Bountiful Summer (1951)
    Bountiful Summer
    • Director
    • 1951
  • Stranitsy zhizni (1948)
    Stranitsy zhizni
    • Director (as B. Barnet)
    • 1948
  • Secret Agent (1947)
    Secret Agent
    • Director (as B. Barnet)
    • 1947
  • Dark Is the Night (1945)
    Dark Is the Night
    • Director (as B. Barnet)
    • 1945
  • Novgorodtsy (1943)
    Novgorodtsy
    • Director
    • 1943
  • Nikolay Khomov in Boyevoy kinosbornik 10 (1942)
    Boyevoy kinosbornik 10
    • Director (segment Bestsennaya golova/Priceless Head, A)
    • 1942
  • Boyevoy kinosbornik 3 (1941)
    Boyevoy kinosbornik 3
    • Director (segment Muzhestvo/Manhood)
    • 1941
  • Staryy naezdnik (1941)
    Staryy naezdnik
    • Director
    • 1941

Actor

  • Secret Agent (1947)
    Secret Agent
    • Gen. von Kühn (as B. Barnet)
    • 1947
  • Sinegoriya (1946)
    Sinegoriya
    • Arseniy Petrovich Gay (as B. Barnet)
    • 1946
  • Dark Is the Night (1945)
    Dark Is the Night
    • Belts kommandant
    • 1945
  • Izrail Bograd in Okraina (1933)
    Okraina
    • Appearing (uncredited)
    • 1933
  • Proryv!
    • Short
    • 1930
  • Vsevolod Pudovkin, Grigory Borisov, and Pyotr Zhukov in The Living Corpse (1929)
    The Living Corpse
    • Sailor in tavern
    • 1929
  • I. Dedintsev, Valéry Inkijinoff, Leonid Obolensky, and Anel Sudakevich in Storm Over Asia (1928)
    Storm Over Asia
    • English soldier, pipe smoker
    • 1928
  • Dom na Trubnoy (1928)
    Dom na Trubnoy
    • (uncredited)
    • 1928
  • Moskva v oktyabre (1927)
    Moskva v oktyabre
    • 1927
  • The Adventures of the Three Reporters (1926)
    The Adventures of the Three Reporters
    • Barnet, a reporter
    • 1926
  • Na vernom sledu
    • 1925
  • José Raúl Capablanca, Vladimir Fogel, and Anna Zemtsova in Shakhmatnaya goryachka (1925)
    Shakhmatnaya goryachka
    • Cameo (uncredited)
    • Short
    • 1925
  • The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924)
    The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
    • Jeddy - the cowboy
    • 1924

Writer

  • Polustanok (1963)
    Polustanok
    • writer
    • 1963
  • Lyana (1955)
    Lyana
    • Writer
    • 1955
  • Ukrainian Concert Hall
    • writer
    • 1952
  • Izrail Bograd in Okraina (1933)
    Okraina
    • screenplay
    • 1933
  • The Adventures of the Three Reporters (1926)
    The Adventures of the Three Reporters
    • Writer
    • 1926

Personal details

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  • Alternative name
    • B. Barnet
  • Born
    • June 18, 1902
    • Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
  • Died
    • January 8, 1965
    • Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia](suicide)
  • Spouses
      Yelena Kuzmina1928 - 1936 (divorced)

Did you know

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    Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 16-19. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.

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