Background
CHEBAN, Aleksandr was born on August 30, 1886.
CHEBAN, Aleksandr was born on August 30, 1886.
From 1907 studied at Moscow Conservatory.
1909-1911 with Choir, 1911-1924 and 1936-1954 with Drama Company, Moscow Academy Arts Theater. 1924-1935 actor, 2nd Moscow Arts Theater. From 1922 also stage director
Roles: Simon in Kheyyermans’ Gib el' 'Nadezlidy' (The End of the ’’North'adezhda”). Friebc in Hauptmann’s ’’World Festival". Stratton in Berger’s Potop (The Flood).
Mons in Strindberg’s "Erik XIV”. Claudius in "Hamlet”. Mendel’ Krik in Babal’s Zakat (The Sunset).
Izmaylov in Finn’s Svidaniye (The Rendezvous). Ivan in A.K. Tolstoy's Smert’ Ioanna Groznogo (The Death of Ivan the Terrible). The Dog in Maeterlinck’s "The Blue-Bird”.
Tatarin in Gorky's Vo due (The Lower Depths). Koshkin in Lyubov’ Yarovaya-, Ivan Pazukhin in Saltykov-Shchedrin’s Smert’ Pazukhma (Pazukhin’s Death). McPherson in Simonov’s Russkiy vopros (The Russian Question).
Vinogradov in Chirskov’s Pobediteli (The Victors). Paul Dombey in '’Dombey and Son," after Dickens. Productions: directed or co-directcd: "Hamlet" (1924).
Belyy's Peterburg (Street Saint St. Petersburg). (1925); A.K. Tolstoy's Smert’ Ioanna Groznogo (The Death of Ivan the Terrible) (1927). Afinogenov's Chudak (The Crank) (1929).
Finn’s Svidaniye (The Rendezvous) (1935).