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name: "Peter Boretski"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/peter-boretski"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 May 1929"
died: "5 September 2001"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:14:46.069305+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Peter Boretski

Actor. Born 25 May 1929 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Died 5 September 2001.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 May 1929, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- **Died:** 5 September 2001
- **Also known as:** Peter Perehinczuk

## Biography

Peter Boretski, born Peter Perehinczuk, was a Canadian actor. A native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, he began his career with the Manitoba Theatre Centre and the Stratford Festival. He appeared in a 1956 Broadway production of *Tamburlaine the Great* and later worked in the United Kingdom, where he adopted his mother's maiden name Boretski professionally. He returned to Canada in the early 1960s.

Boretski was best known for his recurring role as Jack Soble in the sitcom *King of Kensington* (1970s). His film and television credits include *The Nutcracker Prince* (1990), *F/X2* (1991), *Naked Lunch* (1991) as Creature Voices / Exterminator #2, *Goosebumps* (1995) as Grandpa Eddie, *Harrison Bergeron* (1995) and *The Outer Limits* (1995) as Leon Zgierski. He also directed episodes of series such as *Festival*. He was married to actress Jennifer Phipps and was the father of actor Paul Boretski. He died in Toronto, Ontario, in 2001.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Naked Lunch* (1991), Fi1m 78, as Creature Voices / Exterminator #2 — [page](https://film.one/film/naked-lunch.md)

## Also known for

- *Goosebumps* (1995), Grandpa Eddie
- *F/X2* (1991), Carl Becker
- *The Twilight Zone* (1985)
- *The Outer Limits* (1995), Leon Zgierski
- *The Nutcracker Prince* (1990), Uncle Drosselmeier (voice)
- *Harrison Bergeron* (1995), Newman
- *The New Avengers* (1976), Tarnokoff

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