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Michael Chekhov is a Actor American born on 28 august 1891 at Saint Petersburg (Russie)
Mikhail Aleksandrovich "Michael" Chekhov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Чехов, 29 August 1891 – 30 September 1955) was a Russian-American actor, director, author, and theatre practitioner. His acting technique has been used by actors such as Clint Eastwood, Marilyn Monroe, and Yul Brynner. Konstantin Stanislavski referred to him as his most brilliant student. He was a nephew of the playwright Anton Chekhov.
Although mainly a stage actor, he made a few notable appearances on film, perhaps most memorably as the Freudian analyst in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), for which he received his only Academy Award nomination.
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Birth name Mikhail Aleksandrovich Chekhov
Nationality USA
Birth 28 august 1891 at Saint Petersburg (Russie)
Death 30 september 1955 (at 64 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 28 august 1891 at Saint Petersburg (Russie)
Death 30 september 1955 (at 64 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
Although mainly a stage actor, he made a few notable appearances on film, perhaps most memorably as the Freudian analyst in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), for which he received his only Academy Award nomination.
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Rhapsody (1954)
, 1h55Directed by Charles Vidor, Michael Kanin, Lawrence Weingarten, Fay Kanin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Vittorio Gassman, John Ericson, Louis Calhern, Michael Chekhov, Barbara Bates
Roles Prof. Schuman
Rating62%
Based on the novel Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson, the film is about a wealthy and beautiful woman who follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he studies violin at a conservatory.
Invitation (1952)
, 1h24Directed by Gottfried Reinhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Van Johnson, Dorothy McGuire, Ruth Roman, Louis Calhern, Ray Collins, Michael Chekhov
Roles Dr. Fromm
Rating67%
Ellen Pierce (Dorothy McGuire) is very happily married to architect Dan (Van Johnson). However, due to a bout of rheumatic fever in her childhood, her heart is weak and she cannot exert herself too much; how frail she is, she does not really know. Her wealthy father (Louis Calhern) and the family doctor (Ray Collins) have kept from her the fact that she probably only has a few more months to live.
Holiday for Sinners (1952)
, 1h12Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Gig Young, Keenan Wynn, Janice Rule, William Campbell, Richard Anderson, Sandro Giglio
Roles Dr. Konndorff
Rating59%
Three men, reared together in New Orleans, but whose paths have drifted apart, each face a crisis during the last weekend of Mardi Gras: Dr. Jason Kent must decide between accepting a chance to become famous as a research scientist, which will mean leaving New Orleans and giving up the girl he loves, Susan Corvier, or staying in his father's practice among the poor; Father Victor Carducci is refused permission to open an independent clinic and is thinking of leaving the Church; Punch-drunk prizefighter Joe Piavi is mainly operating in a survival mode and is trying to collect $1500 owed to him by his former manager Mike Hennighan. When he finds out about the debt, brash reporter Danny Farber, not above a double-cross when it means gain for him, needles Hennighan about Joe, and then tells Joe that Henninghan is threatening to send him to an asylum.
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (1948)
, 1h16Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Guy Madison, Diana Lynn, James Dunn, Michael Chekhov, Florence Bates, Lionel Stander
Roles Gaboolian
Rating59%
Eddie Tayloe (Madison) is a reporter assigned to the Ft. Worth desk of a Dallas newspaper, and as the two neighboring cities are feuding, therefore has nothing to do. He dreams of becoming a New York playwright, and a small inheritance from his grandfather gives him his chance. Quitting his job, he begins the long drive. Picking up hitchhiker Perry Denklin (Lynn), also looking for fame and fortune in New York, he shares with her encounters with various eccentric characters. The big city does not work out for either of them, and when Eddie finds Perry working in a Coney Island girlie show, he pulls her out and they find happiness together, buying a ranch back in Texas.
Specter of the Rose (1946)
, 1h30Directed by Ben Hecht
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Dance films
Actors Judith Anderson, Michael Chekhov, Lionel Stander, Billy Gray, Ferike Boros
Roles Max Polikoff
Rating57%
A male ballet superstar (Kirov) is suspected of murdering his first wife (his former ballet partner) and now possibly threatening his new wife and ballet partner (Essen). Anderson plays an embittered ballet teacher, and Chekhov plays an impresario.
Cross My Heart (1946)
, 1h25Directed by John Berry
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Betty Hutton, Lewis Russell, Sonny Tufts, Rhys Williams, Ruth Donnelly, Michael Chekhov
Roles Peter
Rating65%
A secretary is wrongly accused of murdering her boss.
Abie's Irish Rose (1946)
, 1h36Directed by A. Edward Sutherland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Michael Chekhov, Joanne Dru, J. M. Kerrigan, George E. Stone, Emory Parnell, Art Baker
Roles Solomon Levy
Rating54%
This script must be run from the command line
Spellbound (1945)
, 1h51Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll, Rhonda Fleming, John Emery
Roles Dr. Alexander Brulov
Rating74%
The Fault... is Not in Our Stars, But in Ourselves...— William Shakespeare
In Our Time (1944)
, 1h50Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Nancy Coleman, Mary Boland, Victor Francen, Cyd Charisse
Roles Uncle Leopold Baruta
Rating65%
In March 1939, antiques dealer Mrs. Bromley (Mary Boland) and her assistant Jennifer "Jenny" Whittredge (Ida Lupino) travel through Poland making purchases. In Warsaw, Jenny meets Count Stephan Orwid (Paul Henreid) and, after a whirlwind courtship, he asks her to marry him.
Song of Russia (1944)
, 1h47Directed by Gregory Ratoff, László Benedek
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Robert Taylor, Susan Peters, Robert Benchley, John Hodiak, Felix Bressart, Michael Chekhov
Roles Ivan Stepanov
Rating58%
American conductor John Meredith (Robert Taylor) and his manager, Hank Higgins (Robert Benchley), go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova (Susan Peters) while they travel throughout the country on a 40-city tour. Their bliss is destroyed by the German invasion.
Phantoms of Happiness (1930)
Genres Drama
Actors Michael Chekhov, Gaston Modot, Oskar Sima, Karina Bell, Ekkehard Arendt
Roles Jacques Bramard
Poliche (1929)
Directed by Olga Tschechowa
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Michael Chekhov, Alice Roberts, Oreste Bilancia, Otto Wallburg, Olga Tschechowa
Roles Didier Mireuil - Poliche
The Man from the Restaurant (1927)
, 1h2Directed by Yakov Protazanov
Actors Michael Chekhov, Mikhail Zharov, Igor Ilinski, Vera Malinovskaya, Mikhail Klimov
Rating66%