Pierre Batcheff
Pierre Batcheff ( born June 23, 1901 in Harbin, Russian Empire, † April 12, 1932 in Paris, France) was a French actor of Russian descent, belonged in the 1920s to the stars of French cinema.
Life
Pierre was Batcheff ( other sources mention 1907 as the year of birth) born 23 June 1901 in Harbin, a then majority of Russians inhabited city in China today. The family but moved soon after Riga and later to St. Petersburg, where his sister was born. Pierre Batcheffs birth name was according to some sources Pyotr Batschew, according to other sources Benjamin Batschew.
1914, after the start of the First World War, the family in Geneva, in French-speaking Switzerland settled where Batcheff temporarily belonged to the theater group of Georges Pitoëff. From 1921, he lived with mother, sister and aunt in Paris. There he began to work as a stage actor until he also appeared in the first films from 1923. Soon Batcheffs began climbing into a popular film actor, so he was one of the young stars of French cinema from the mid- 1920s. He had repeatedly soon in artistic and intellectual circles.
His greatest achievements were the comedy The two shy, directed by René Clair surrealist film and the Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. In 1930 he married the film producer Denise Tual, with which he was already dating before.
In the appeared in 1931, German production Midnight Love by Carl Froelich and Augusto Genina Batcheff played with.
The films in which he starred from the 1930s but reached some only mediocre reviews. The extravagant, strenuous lifestyle of a celebrity went as traces on Batcheff, whose health is increasingly deteriorated. 1932 committed suicide Batcheff in which he administered an overdose of veronal is.