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- Boris Morros was born on January 1, 1891 in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was a producer and writer, known for Stagecoach (1939), Souls at Sea (1937) and The General Died at Dawn (1936). He died on January 8, 1963 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Short, pudgy Russian-born independent producer, composer and musical director, in the U.S. from 1922. He worked for a number of years in Hollywood for Paramount. Morros was revealed as a Soviet spy (recruited in 1934 and code-named "Frost") and FBI double agent (from 1947), courtesy of his 1957 published memoirs, entitled "Ten Years a Counterspy". This was filmed in 1960 as "Man on a String" with Ernest Borgnine in the role of Morros.
- Paramount produced a promotional short about the musical scoring of the 1937 feature "Wells Fargo". Featured in the short were the movie's director Frank Lloyd, composer Victor Young, musical director Boris Morros and actors Bob Burns, Porter Hall, Frances Dee, and Joel McCrea. The short was narrated by Gayne Whitman.
- Father of Richard B. Morros.
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