Pierre Batcheff (Russian: Пьер Батчефф; 23 June 1901?

One of the Parisian newspapers reporting on his death summarised his contemporary appeal as an actor: "As an artist, he brought an extremely personal tone of refinement, of sensitivity and of melancholy, which was not devoid of strength, and this earned him a very wide popularity". It also noted that on the day after his death he had been due to sign a contract with a producer to direct his first film.

Filmography

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| 1923 || ' || ' || Maurice de Marsan and Charles Maudru || Lost film.

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| 1924 || Claudine et le poussin |||| Marcel Manchez || Role of Claude de Puygiron

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| 1925 || Princesse Lulu ||Princess Lulu|| Émile-Bernard Donatien || Lost film.

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| 1925 || Autour d'un berceau |||| Georges Monca and Maurice Kéroul || Lost film.

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| 1925 || ' |||| Jean Epstein ||

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| 1926 || Feu Mathias Pascal || ' || Marcel L'Herbier || Role of Scipion.

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| 1926 || Destinée |||| Henry Roussel || Lost film.

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| 1926 || ' |||| Georges Pallu || Lost film.

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| 1927 || ' || ' || Raymond Bernard || Role of Prince Serge Oblonoff.

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| 1927 || Napoléon |||| Abel Gance || Role of General Hoche.

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| 1927 || Éducation de prince || Education of a Prince || Henri Diamant-Berger ||

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| 1927 || En rade |||| Alberto Cavalcanti ||

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| 1927 || ' || Siren of the Tropics || Mario Nalpas and Henri Étiévant || With Josephine Baker.

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| 1928 || ' |||| Gaston Ravel || Lost film.

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| 1928 || ' || Island of Love || Jean Durand and Berthe Dagmar ||

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| 1928 || Vivre |||| Robert Boudrioz || Lost film.

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| 1928 || ' |||| Jean Milva ||

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| 1929 || ' || Two Timid Souls || René Clair ||

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| 1929 || || ' || Luis Buñuel || Short film.

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| 1929 || Monte Cristo |||| Henri Fescourt || Role of Albert de Mortcerf.

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| 1930 || Illusions |||| Lucien Mayrargue ||

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| 1930 || ' || ' || Leo Mittler || Lost film.

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| 1931 || Les Amours de minuit ||The Lovers of Midnight|| Augusto Genina and Marc Allégret || Also in German version Mitternachtsliebe.

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| 1931 || ' || ' || Adelqui Migliar || Lost film.

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| 1932 || Baroud || Baroud || Rex Ingram and Alice Terry || Batcheff appeared in both French and English versions.

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| 1932 || Amour... Amour... |||| Robert Bibal || Batcheff wrote the script only; filmed and released after his death.

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