Michael Chekhov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Michael Chekhov

Russian actor and director

Date of Birth: 17-Aug-1891

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 30-Sep-1955

Profession: actor, stage actor, drama teacher, film director, theater director, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Mikhail Aleksandrovich "Michael" Chekhov (Russian: ?????? ????????????? ?????, 29 August 1891 – 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.