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'Men in Black' 'Everything is Illuminated' actor Boris Leskin dead at 97
https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/ny-boris-leskin-dead-at-87-20200222-glqcsyy5cndajfby6indmzmnqq-story.html
By STORM GIFFORD
FEB 21, 2020 | 8:30 PM
Boris Leskin, the Romanian-born actor known for his Soviet-era, authoritarian film portrayals, is dead at 97.
Leskin passed away Friday and no cause of death was disclosed, reported Russian news site RIA Novosti.
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After a prominent career in dozens of Soviet film and TV productions, his most notable earliest American movie role was as Mikhael in the 1985 thriller “The Falcon and the Snowman.” Two years later, he appeared in the historical suspense saga “The House on Carroll Street.”
Minor roles in the Nicolas Cage supernatural comedy “Vampire’s Kiss” and the Robin Williams comedy “Cadillac Man” eventually led to his casting as a cook in the box-office behemoth “Men in Black,” the top-earning movie of 1997.
At 82, Leskin landed a starring role in the 2005 drama “Everything Is Illuminated.” Playing an anti-Semitic cabbie hired to drive Elijah Wood around Ukraine in search of a woman who saved is grandfather, he was awarded the Jury Award as Best Actor from the Pacific Meridian International Film Festival of Asia Pacific Countries.
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By STORM GIFFORD
FEB 21, 2020 | 8:30 PM
Boris Leskin, the Romanian-born actor known for his Soviet-era, authoritarian film portrayals, is dead at 97.
Leskin passed away Friday and no cause of death was disclosed, reported Russian news site RIA Novosti.
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After a prominent career in dozens of Soviet film and TV productions, his most notable earliest American movie role was as Mikhael in the 1985 thriller “The Falcon and the Snowman.” Two years later, he appeared in the historical suspense saga “The House on Carroll Street.”
Minor roles in the Nicolas Cage supernatural comedy “Vampire’s Kiss” and the Robin Williams comedy “Cadillac Man” eventually led to his casting as a cook in the box-office behemoth “Men in Black,” the top-earning movie of 1997.
At 82, Leskin landed a starring role in the 2005 drama “Everything Is Illuminated.” Playing an anti-Semitic cabbie hired to drive Elijah Wood around Ukraine in search of a woman who saved is grandfather, he was awarded the Jury Award as Best Actor from the Pacific Meridian International Film Festival of Asia Pacific Countries.
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Hands down, Everything Is Illuminated was the best picture of the 2000's. He, and his dog, Sammy Davis Junior Junior, were so great - they made that movie (...and Gogol Bordelllo's Eugene Hutz - "most premium"
).
Cross gently, Grandfather.
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He really left us a gift with that performance... 
"Most deranged" Sammy Davis Junior Junior
