Peter Boretski

Peter Boretski was the stage name of Peter Perehinczuk (May 25, 1929 - September 5, 2001), a Canadian actor. He was best known for his recurring supporting role as Jack Soble in the 1970s sitcom King of Kensington. Life and career A native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, he began his acting career with the Manitoba Theatre Centre and the Stratford Festival, and had small roles in a 1956 Broadway production of Tamburlaine the Great, before spending some time as part of the company of the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham, England. In the United Kingdom, he began using his mother's maiden name, Boretski, professionally. While working with the Alexandra, he also had occasional television acting roles in BBC drama anthology series. He returned to Canada in the early 1960s with his wife, British actress Jennifer Phipps, and had his first significant stage role in Canada acting opposite Barbara Chilcott and Charmion King in a Crest Theatre production of Orpheus Descending. He was active predominantly in theatre rather than film or television through the 1960s and early 1970s, both as an actor and a director. He also had several credits as a television director in this era, including the television film A Remnant of Harry and numerous episodes of the anthology series Festival and Norman Corwin Presents and the drama series Quentin Durgens, M.P..