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Michael Chekhov

1891 - 1955

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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Chekhov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Чехов; 16 August 1891 – 30 September 1955), known as Michael Chekhov, was a Russian-American actor, director, author, and theatre practitioner. He was a nephew of the playwright Anton Chekhov and a student of Konstantin Stanislavski. Stanislavski referred to him as his most brilliant student. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Chekhov is the 692nd most popular actor (down from 583rd in 2019), the 344th most popular biography from Russia (down from 328th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Actor.

Michael Chekhov is most famous for his acting technique, which was developed in the early 20th century. He believed that the actor should be fully aware of the environment and context of the play to achieve a believable performance.

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Among actors, Michael Chekhov ranks 692 out of 13,578. Before him are Jim Broadbent, Jeremy Renner, Nebahat Çehre, Pat Carroll, Robin Wright, and Marion Cotillard. After him are Tom Wilkinson, Vincent Price, Betty White, Ray Milland, John Corbett, and P. Ramlee.

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Among people born in 1891, Michael Chekhov ranks 36. Before him are Charley Patton, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Fumimaro Konoe, Carl Spaatz, Jose P. Laurel, and Shukri al-Quwatli. After him are Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Antonio Segni, Yrjö Väisälä, Hans Reichenbach, Ole Kirk Christiansen, and Arthur Drewry. Among people deceased in 1955, Michael Chekhov ranks 29. Before him are John Mott, Calouste Gulbenkian, Carmen Miranda, Hermann Weyl, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, and Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein. After him are Mihály Károlyi, Leonid Govorov, Major Ritchie, Oswald Avery, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, and Cordell Hull.

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Among people born in Russia, Michael Chekhov ranks 344 out of 3,761. Before him are Henri Troyat (1911), Nikolai Rubinstein (1835), Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943), Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933), Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (1554), and Mikhail Khodorkovsky (1963). After him are George Ostrogorsky (1902), Fyodor Tyutchev (1803), Avvakum (1620), Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (1832), Andrei Konchalovsky (1937), and Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859).

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Among ACTORS In Russia

Among actors born in Russia, Michael Chekhov ranks 3. Before him are Yul Brynner (1920), and Armin Mueller-Stahl (1930). After him are Lila Kedrova (1918), Sacha Guitry (1885), Yuri Nikulin (1921), Vyacheslav Tikhonov (1928), Olga Knipper (1868), Yevgeny Leonov (1926), Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925), George Sanders (1906), and Lyubov Orlova (1902).

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