Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael Chekhov (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, Yul Brynner, and Robert Stack. Constantin 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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Bet
1983
Novel
The story is about a lawyer who believes that capital punishment is terrible, and that imprisonment, if forever, remains a compassionate punishment, t...
Cinema in Russia
1979
as Film footage
Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutiona...
Rhapsody
1954
as Prof. Schuman
A rich, young beauty, Louise Durant, follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he studies violin at the conservatory. A piano stude...
Holiday for Sinners
1952
as Dr. Konndorff
Three old friends reunite during Mardi Gras and try to forget their problems.
Invitation
1952
as Dr. Fromm
A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.
The Price of Freedom
1949
as Johann Vollmer
The son of a newspaper editor visits his uncle in Germany and learns how government control gradually took away the freedom of the people. He returns ...
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948
as Gaboolian
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and ...
Abie's Irish Rose
1946
as Solomon Levy
Cultures clash when a Jewish boy wants to marry an Irish girl.
Cross My Heart
1946
as Peter
A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.
Specter of the Rose
1946
as Max Polikoff
Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one.
Spellbound
1945
as Dr. Alexander Brulov
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, dis...
In Our Time
1944
as Uncle Leopold Baruta
It is early 1939 in Poland when Mrs. Bromley and Jennifer come to buy antiques for her business in London. Jennifer meets Count Stephen and they wine,...
Song of Russia
1944
as Ivan Stepanov
American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in l...
Troika
1930
Phantoms of Happiness
1930
as Jacques Bramard
Der Narr seiner Liebe
1929
The Man from the Restaurant
1927
During the good old days of the Russian aristocracy, that is to say, before the October Revolution, in the city of Moscow there was a fancy restaurant...
When The Heart's Strings Sound
1914
as Fred, Jean's brother
Tercentenary of the Romanov Dynasty's Accession
1913
as Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich
This large historical production was staged simultaneously with A. Khanzhonkov's painting "The Accession of the House of Romanov", but it was carried ...