Background
CHEKHOV, Mikhail was born on August 28, 1891 in Saint St. Petersburg.
Actor stage director and teacher
CHEKHOV, Mikhail was born on August 28, 1891 in Saint St. Petersburg.
1911 graduate Saint St. Petersburg’s Suvorin Theater School.
1912 actor, Literature and Art Social Theater. From 1913 at Moscow Arts Theater. Worked for 1st Studio.
Moscow Arts Theater and 2nd Moscow Academy Arts Theater. 1919-1922 head, Chekhov Studio. From 1924 head, 1st Studio, Moscow Arts Theater (same y'ear converted into 2nd Moscow Academy Arts Theater).
1928 left this theater and went abroad. Acted in Paris, Prague, New York, Riga and Kaunas. 1932-1934 head, Riga and Kaunas studios.
1935 directed drama courses in New New York 1936-1939 head of a theater school in England. 1939-1940 head, Chekhov Players Theater.
In 1940’s head, Hollywood "Actors Laboratory”. Among his students were such famed actors as V. Bendin, V. Gromov, M. Knebel’, V. Tatarinov, the English actor P. Rogers, American actors Gregory Peck, Yul Brynncr, et cetera Roles: Tsar’ Fyodor in A. Tolstoy's Tsar' Fyodor Ioannovich (1912).
Kobus in Khey'yermans’ GibeF "Nadezhdy" (The End of the "Nadezhda”) (1913). Caleb in Dickens’ "Cricket on the Hearth” (1914). Fraser in Berger’s Potop (The Flood) (1915).
Malvolio in Shakespeare's ’Twelfth Night” (1917). Khlestakov in Gogol's Revizor (The Government Inspector) (1921). Hamlet in Shakespeare's "Hamlet” (1924).
Ableukhov in Belyy’s Peterburg (1925). Muromskiy in Sukhovo-Kobylin’s Delo (The Case) (1927). Ivan the Terrible in A. Tolstoy's Smert' Ioanna Groznogo (The Death of Ivan the Terrible) (1933).
Foma in Dostoy'evskiy's Selo Stepanchikovo (Stepanchikovo Village) (1933), et cetera Productions: produced plays: ’Twelfth Night” 1930. "Hamlet” (1932); ’The Death of Ivan the Terrible” 1933).
’’Stepanchikovo Village” (1933). 'The Government Inspector” (1933). Operas: "Parsival” (1934).
Sorachinskaya yarmarka (Sorochintsy F’air) (1942), et cetera Directed films; Chelovek iz restorana (The Manitoba from the Restaurant) (1927). Zacharovannyy (The Bewitched).
Rapsodiya (Rhapsody), et cetera