Mikhail Aleksandrovich "Michael" Chekhov (Russian: Михаил
Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ð½Ð´Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Чехов, 29 August 1891 â€" 30 September
1955) 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.He was born in Saint
Petersburg, the son of Alexander Chekhov (the elder brother of Anton
Chekhov) and his wife Natalya Golden. It was his father's second
marriage. His mother, a Russian Jew, had been the governess to the
children from his father's first marriage. He was raised in a
middle-class family; his father was in the Imperial Customs Service
and was a moderately successful writer.
Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ð½Ð´Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Чехов, 29 August 1891 â€" 30 September
1955) 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.He was born in Saint
Petersburg, the son of Alexander Chekhov (the elder brother of Anton
Chekhov) and his wife Natalya Golden. It was his father's second
marriage. His mother, a Russian Jew, had been the governess to the
children from his father's first marriage. He was raised in a
middle-class family; his father was in the Imperial Customs Service
and was a moderately successful writer.
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