Don Borisenko

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 Furies wartime melodrama During One Night 1960 and Mark Robsons account of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi Nine Hours to Rama 1963 in which he played Naryan Apte the friend of Gandhis murderer Nathuram Vinayak Godse played by Horst Buchholz After he walked off the set of Robert Aldrichs 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