Actor
Michael Chekhov
Born August 28, 1891 in Saint Petersburg, Russian EmpireDied September 30, 195517 films
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.
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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.
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First watchSpellbound19457.4as Dr. Alexander BrulovWhen Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an…View filmFilmography
17 films as actor- 1954RhapsodyProf. Schuman
- 1952Holiday for SinnersDr. Konndorff
- 1952InvitationDr. Fromm
- 1949The Price of FreedomJohann Vollmer
- 1948Texas, Brooklyn & HeavenGaboolian
- 1946Abie's Irish RoseSolomon Levy
- 1946Cross My HeartPeter
- 1946Specter of the RoseMax Polikoff
- 1945SpellboundDr. Alexander Brulov
- 1944In Our TimeUncle Leopold Baruta
- 1944Song of RussiaIvan Stepanov
- 1930Troika
- 1930Phantoms of HappinessJacques Bramard
- 1929Der Narr seiner Liebe
- 1927The Man from the RestaurantSkorohodov - The Waiter
- 1914When The Heart's Strings SoundFred, Jean's brother
- 1913Tercentenary of the Romanov Dynasty's AccessionTsar Mikhail Fyodorovich