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- Boris Lee Krutonog was born in Chisinau, USSR. Boris Lee is a producer and actor, known for The Americans (2013), The Italian Job (2003) and The Hunt for Red October (1990).
- In 1998, Boris Krutonog wrote a mob drama titled 'Alexander the Great' with Tom Epperson; about a modern-day Russian mobster who thinks he is actually Alexander the Great.
- Was the Best Man at the wedding of Duane 'Dog' Chapman and Beth Smith, shown on the August 8th, 2006 episode of "Dog the Bounty Hunter".
- Assisted "bounty hunter" Duane Lee Chapman in the capture of bail jumper Andrew Luster in Mexico; subsequently, charges by Mexican officials of illegal depravation of liberty were dropped.
- Along with James Cromwell, Jeremy Roberts, Alice Krige and Jack Shearer, he is one of only five actors to initially play a character in a "Star Trek" film before reprising their role in a "Star Trek" television series. He played Lt. Commander Lojur in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) and later reprised his role in Flashback (1996).
- Graduated as an Industrial Engineer from Columbia University.
- I was actually 'discovered' at a party in NYC. I must have looked pretty 'Russian,' because a stranger approached me and said he needed a Russian guy for a scene in an action movie he and his friends were shooting in upstate New York that weekend.
I traveled three hours to shoot that one scene, in which, incidentally, I only had one line! Apparently, I didn't screw up that line too bad, since I was invited to star in the next three super low budget action movies shot over the next few weekends. It was a production boot camp for me - I acted, operated the camera, built sets, wrote my own dialogue - it was so much fun and addictive! A few months later an agent showed that footage to [director] John McTiernan, who immediately cast me in [1990's spy suspense thriller] 'The Hunt For Red October'.
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