Anton Chekhov

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1860-01-29

Deathday 1904-07-15 (44 years old)

Place of Birth Taganrog, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]

Also Known As A. P. Čechov, А. П. Чехов, Антон Павлович Чехов, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

Biography

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 – 1904) was a Russian playwright and writer, whose plays received international acclaim, and who as a short-story writer is still regarded as virtually unmatched. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress." The son of a former serf, Chekhov started out supporting his family by writing popular comic sketches as a medicine student. While practicing as a doctor, he produced his first full-length play, Ivanov (1887). He took up serious themes with stories such as “The Steppe” (1888) and “A Dreary Story” (1889); later stories include “Ward Number Six” (1892), “The Black Monk” (1894) and “The Lady with the Dog” (1899). His play The Seagull (1896) was badly received until its successful revival in 1899 by Konstantin Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre. After this he converted his earlier work The Wood Demon (1889) into the universally acclaimed play Uncle Vanya (1897). To nurse his eventually fatal tuberculosis he moved to the Crimea, where he wrote his famous last plays, Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904).

Known For

Writer

Il gabbiano

as Writer

The Apple Trees

as Author

2024
The Student

as Story

2024
A Joke

as Story

2024
2023
The Seagull

as Original Story

2022
2022
The Black Monk

as Original Story

2021
Crise de nerfs

as Author

2021
Sonata

as Writer

2020
2020
2020
Wrecker

as Writer

2020
Uncle Vanya

as Theatre Play

2020
Escenario 0

as Writer

2019
2019
Onkel Wanja

as Writer

2019
Uncle Vanya

as Writer

2019
To Stumble

as Book

2018
The Seagull

as Theatre Play

2017
Three Sisters

as Theatre Play

2017
Joker

as Novel

2017
The Seagull

as Author

2015
Platonow

as Screenplay

2015
Agafia

as Short Story

2015
Le Rustre et le Juge

as Short Story

2015
Three Sisters

as Theatre Play

2014
Ottaal

as Author

2014
2014
2013
Hollywood Seagull

as Theatre Play

2012
La Mouette

as Theatre Play

2011
2009
Ward No. 6

as Novel

2009
Backstage Story

as Writer

2009
Ivanov

as Novel

2008
The Orchard

as Novel

2007
Uncle Vanya

as Original Story

2007
Afternoon

as Original Story

2007
Seagull

as Original Story

2006
About Love

as Writer

2005
The Sisters

as Original Story

2004
About Love

as Novel

2004
Ragin

as Novel

2004
Fear

as Story

2003
Three Sisters

as Writer

2002
Upheaval

as Story

2002
2001
2000
Nina

as Writer

1999
1999
From Every Man I Loved

as Short Story

1999
Agáta

as Short Story

1999
Requiem

as Original Story

1998
Chekhov and Co.

as Original Story

1997
1997
Racek

as Theatre Play

1996
August

as Theatre Play

1996
Junior Lieutenant

as Short Story

1995
Frieriet

as Theatre Play

1994
Vanya on 42nd Street

as Screenplay

1994
Vanya on 42nd Street

as Theatre Play

1994
Onkel Vanja

as Theatre Play

1994
Country Life

as Author

1994
Three Sisters

as Theatre Play

1993
Brace Up!

as Writer

1993
If Only I Knew...

as Theatre Play

1992
Swan Song

as Author

1991
Uncle Vanya

as Original Story

1991
Kasba

as Original Story

1990
Three Years

as Novel

1988
Love and Fear

as Theatre Play

1988
1987
1987
Dark Eyes

as Short Story

1987
Jubileum

as Theatre Play

1986
The Witch

as Novel

1986
Softly from Paris

as Original Story

1985
Medvěd

as Theatre Play

1984
Björnen

as Writer

1984
Three Sisters

as Story

1984
1984
Svatba s generálem

as Theatre Play

1984
The Bear

as Story

1983
The Kiss

as Writer

1983
Courtship

as Theatre Play

1983
Hasičský plášť

as Short Story

1983
An Uneventful Story

as Short Story

1983
Fish Day

as Story

1983
The Man In The Case

as Short Story

1983
Švédská zápalka

as Short Story

1982
La Cerisaie

as Theatre Play

1982
Dve duše

as Short Story

1982
Obyčajný príbeh

as Short Story

1982
La Cerisaie

as Writer

1982
Anyuta

as Writer

1982
Ivanov

as Author

1981
Vanka Zhukov

as Story

1981
1981
The Cherry Orchard

as Theatre Play

1980
Three Years

as Story

1979
Labutí píseň

as Theatre Play

1978
The Good Doctor

as Writer

1978
The Seagull

as Writer

1978
Chorister

as Story

1978
1978
Višňový sad

as Theatre Play

1978
Ward Six

as Story

1978
1978
The Steppe

as Writer

1977
Funny People!

as Story

1977
Dead End

as Novel

1977
Chekhov's Pages

as Theatre Play

1977
The Seagull

as Novel

1976
Kaštanka

as Original Story

1976
Racek

as Theatre Play

1976
1975
Kashtanka

as Writer

1975
The Seagull

as Writer

1974
1974
1974
1974
The Bad Boy

as Short Story

1974
The Wood Demon

as Theatre Play

1973
Nepriatelia

as Short Story

1973
The Duel

as Novel

1973
The Duel

as Writer

1973
A Misfortune

as Story

1973
Ward Six

as Novel

1973
Mamad

as Writer

1972
Prelietavka

as Short Story

1972
The Seagull

as Theatre Play

1972
My Life

as Story

1972
Jeden ze soubojů

as Short Story

1972
Rain

as Story

1971
Platonov

as Writer

1971
Jubileum

as Theatre Play

1971
Zlodeji

as Short Story

1971
Platonov

as Theatre Play

1971
1971
The Roundabout

as Short Story

1971
1970
1970
Uncle Vanya

as Writer

1970
Svadba

as Theatre Play

1970
Ujo Váňa

as Theatre Play

1970
Uncle Vanya

as Writer

1970
Uncle Vanya

as Novel

1970
Three Sisters

as Theatre Play

1970
Körsbärsträdgården

as Theatre Play

1970
1970
1970
1970
Alta comedia

as Story

1970
Alta comedia

as Novel

1969
Chameleón

as Short Story

1969
Bahno

as Short Story

1969
Exam for Rank

as Story

1969
An Event

as Story

1969
Belated Flowers

as Writer

1969
Úsměvy světa

as Short Story

1968
Román o base

as Short Story

1968
Суд

as Story

1968
The Sea Gull

as Theatre Play

1967
Navštívenka

as Short Story

1967
Na zapřenou

as Short Story

1967
Zločin a trik I.

as Short Story

1967
Опекун

as Story

1967
Gooseberry

as Story

1967
Eccentrics

as Story

1966
Labutí píseň

as Theatre Play

1966
Labutí píseň

as Theatre Play

1966
1966
Deary

as Novel

1966
1965
BBC Play of the Month

as Theatre Play

1964
Ivanov

as Theatre Play

1964
Tři sestry

as Theatre Play

1964
The Seagull

as Novel

1964
1963
Starostlivý otec

as Short Story

1963
1963
Black Sabbath

as Novel

1963
Uncle Vanya

as Screenplay

1963
1963
Onkel Vanja

as Author

1962
The Cherry Orchard

as Theatre Play

1962
The Steppe

as Novel

1961
Medvěd

as Theatre Play

1961
The Wedding

as Writer

1961
Враги

as Story

1961
Duel

as Writer

1961
Námluvy

as Novel

1960
Podzimní slunce

as Short Story

1960
Podzimní slunce

as Theatre Play

1960
1960
Huntsman

as Story

1960
Vanka

as Story

1960
Drama

as Story

1960
Mest

as Novel

1960
1959
The Proposal

as Writer

1959
Liberal

as Story

1959
Måsen

as Theatre Play

1959
The Witch

as Writer

1958
Revenger

as Author

1958
La Sorcière

as Writer

1957
Uncle Vanya

as Theatre Play

1957
Boots

as Writer

1956
Medvěd

as Theatre Play

1956
The Lottery Ticket

as Short Story

1956
The Bride

as Novel

1955
1955
Folio

as Writer

1954
Il matrimonio

as Theatre Play

1954
Il matrimonio

as Author

1954
1954
The Anna Cross

as Writer

1953
Medvěd

as Theatre Play

1953
Iniquity

as Writer

1951
The Bad Boy

as Story

1949
1944
Юбилей

as Novel

1944
Wedding

as Writer

1944
Summer Storm

as Novel

1939
Surgery

as Novel

1939
Man in a Shell

as Writer

1938
The Bear

as Writer

1938
The Bear

as Theatre Play

1929
1926
1926
Kashtanka

as Writer

1918
Drama on the Hunt

as Short Story

1917
1916
1915
Lawlessness

as Short Story

Crew

2014
Still Alice

as Thanks

2003
Little Lili

as Script

2001
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand

as Additional Dialogue

Actor

2022
Un selfie avec Anton Tchekhov

as Self (archive footage)