Pierre Batcheff
Actor
Biography
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Pierre Batcheff (23 June 1907 – 13 April 1932) was a French actor, whose original name was Piotr Bacev (from Russia), born in Harbin, Manchuria. His best-known film was Un chien andalou (1929) by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. He was married to French film editor Denise Piazza.
Both Batcheff and the leading actress in Un chien andalou, Simone Mareuil, committed suicide, Mareuil by setting herself on fire in 1954, Batcheff reportedly by overdosing on Veronal.
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Filmography
Napoleon
as General Louis Lazare Hoche 1927
The Late Mathias Pascal
as Scipion 1925
Siren of the Tropics
as André Berval 1927
Monte Cristo
as Albert de Morcerf 1929
The Chess Player
as Prince Serge Oblomoff 1927
Double Love
as Jacques Maresco 1925
Two Timid Souls
as Fremissin 1928
Sea Fever
1927
The Lovers of Midnight
as Marcel 1931
Baroud
as Si Hamed 1932
Baroud
as Si Hamed 1932
Illusions
1930
The Rebel
1931
Bonaparte et la révolution
as Hoche (archive footage) 1972
The King of Paris
1930
Education of a Prince
as Sacha 1927