Biography of m Chekhov

Filmography Biography Mikhail Chekhov - Russian actor, director and theater teacher. A creative figure, worked on the Stanislavsky system and designed the author’s method. In memory of himself, the artist and director left numerous images in performances and films, books and articles on the specifics of acting. He staged performances at foreign stage venues, gave lectures and led seminars for future artists.

The boy’s father, like his relative, tried himself in literature. In the year, Alexander Chekhov became a widower and the next year he married a governess who worked with his children. She gave him the son of Michael. The boy was born on August 17 on August in St. Petersburg and from childhood demonstrated creative inclinations. Parents saw this, and his father believed that his heir would grow up with a talented performer.

Misha had a special traction to dramatic art. In m, he became a student of the theater school with a literary and art society. The stage debut took place as part of amateur productions. Teachers noted that Misha is very successful in comic images and is able to embody characteristic characters. Having completed the training, the young man became a member of the troupe of the Suvorinsky Theater, in which he worked for six months.

The novice artist was happy with the prospects. Then it became known about the opening of the studio at the Moscow Art Theater. From that moment on, Mikhail was involved in the main stage in the mass, and then in the main roles and in the studio led by Evgeny Vakhtangov and Leopold Sulerzhitsky. In the year, the artist for the first time faced the lens of the film camera, speaking in the image of Mikhail Romanov in the film "Three hundredth anniversary of the reign of the Romanov House." Following this film, he starred in 5 dumb paintings.

In parallel, he went on the stage of the studio at the art Theater in the image of Fribe from the play “Feast of the World”, played Epicodov in the production “Cherry Garden” on the main stage of the theater. In the next 2 years, the actor was often involved in performances organized by Stanislavsky. He also embodied on the scene of Fraser from the play "Flood", which was walking in the studio.

Stanislavsky invited Chekhov to play Trevlev in the famous "Seagull" in M, but the performer brought health, the completion of which depression served. The complex psychological state of a creative person was not easy to explain. In addition, in this period, a cousin died, whose death Mikhail was worried and decided to abandon the role. Chekhov worked out a system of acting, which he preached in his own studio founded in his apartment.

Stanislavsky himself encouraged these classes. The actor issued several articles in which he was analyzing the famous method. In parallel, Mikhail taught acting. Chekhov was involved in Stanislavsky’s production “Examiner”. His Khlestakov had enthusiastic reviews of critics. The actor was sung by the creative figures of Russia and Europe, after he visited Lithuania, Estonia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic with tour.

In the year, he stood at the helm of the first Moscow Art Theater Studio, which was performed for the next year for 10 years. The artist rehearsed Hamlet. The premiere received an ambiguous assessment, but by that time Chekhov was obvious. He became an honored artist of academic theaters. In the same period, the first studio was renamed the second. In the year in the studio there was a split.

Anatoly Lunacharsky intervened. The troupe did not want to work with the Wild, and the contract with it did not imply extending. The difficult situation was an obstacle to the tours of the studio in the United States, which Stanislavsky organized. As a result of the proceedings, Mikhail Chekhov became the sole manager of the studio at the suggestion of the People's Commissariat of Education.

Having become a leader, he did not refuse artistic activity and continued to act. In M, the premiere of the film "Man from the restaurant", which is considered the most serious in the cinematic biography of a man. Exploring the method of Stanislavsky, in the year Chekhov published the book “The Way of the Actor”. In the same period, not enduring the intensity of the passions reigning in the theater, he decided to leave him, but the meeting refused.

The actor took a short break to improve his health, and he himself agreed to shoot in the Troika tape of the German director Max Reinhardt. He also played in the production "Artists". Then followed the work in the films “The fool because of love”, “The ghost of happiness”, “Singer of his sadness”. As a director, he set the Twelfth Night and Gabim, gaining recognition abroad as a theater organizer.

The artist worked abroad, planned the opening of an acting school in France and created the Society of Friends of the Chekhov Theater in Paris, renting a premises for performances. There were patrons supporting his project financially, but the first productions seemed unsatisfactory to the creative figure. He began to agree on cooperation with the Riga Theater of Russian Drama, where he later put several plays.

Mikhail Chekhov worked a lot in the near abroad - Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and arranged seminars, explaining to the actors the method of Stanislavsky.He also talked about his own vision of creative existence on stage. The theater figure received an invitation to cooperation from the English studio Dartington-Hall and worked there since years.

An unstable position in Europe in anticipation of war forced the actor in the company of like -minded people from his studio to move to the United States. There, not far from New York, he again took up directing, putting the plays of William Shakespeare. In wartime, Chekhov suspended theatrical activities and turned to cinema, starring in the ribbons “Song about Russia” and “In our time”.

In M, the premiere of the painting “Enchanted” was held, for which the artist received a nomination for an Oscar. She was followed by the ribbons “The Ghost of the Rose”, “I swear! During this period, Chekhov paid much attention to pedagogy. He published the book "On the Technique of the Actor", in which he described his own vision of existence on the stage. She was interested in actors, among them Marilyn Monroe.

The director was the author of productions at the Laboratory Theater in Hollywood. Health problems forced the director to abandon directing and concentrate on pedagogy. Speaking about his own school, built on the methodology of Stanislavsky, Chekhov gained popularity among foreign actors. An interesting fact: the director's studios seriously influenced the acting systems of Europe. He focused on the formation of the repertoire, psychotechnics of the actor and its existence.

Chekhov’s work was highly appreciated in Hollywood, and the fees were very impressive. The reason for this was also the fact that he was among the followers of Stanislavsky, who managed to work with the master. Personal life Mikhail Chekhov first married in the year. His chosen one was Olga Chekhova, known in theatrical circles under the first name Knipper. After marriage, she added the second to her.

The girl was the niece of the wife of Anton Chekhov. In addition to Olga’s daughter, the spouses did not have children. Like her parents, the girl preferred creative activity, becoming an actress. Personal life with Olga did not work out, and Mikhail left his wife in the year. The second time, the man was combined with a marriage with Xenia Tsiller, a German by origin. Death theater figure died in metro.

The cause of death was myocardial infarction. Its grave is located in the cemetery of Foreste Memorils. The creative merits and achievements of Mikhail Chekhov were in undeserved oblivion in his homeland. His name was addressed in the years. The Chekhov system became famous, and theaters discussed it along with the method of Stanislavsky. The photo of Chekhov, like films with his participation, can be found on the Internet.

Filmography - “Three hundredth of the reign of the Romanovs House” - “When the strings of the heart sound” - “Cricket on the stove”.