Mikheil Chiaureli (Georgian: მიხეილ ჭიაურელი, Russian: Михаил Эдишерович Чиаурели, 6 February 1894 – 31 October 1974) was a Soviet Georgian actor, film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1928 and 1974. He was awarded the Stalin Prize five times in 1941, 1943, 1946, 1947, and 1950.^[1]

In early life Chiaureli studied in a trade school and then worked for a while as a locksmith. Starting in amateur dramatics he became a professional actor aged 20 and worked as both actor and stage-decorator at the Tbilisi theatre. After 1917 he studied acting formally at the Tbilisi Academy of Arts.

Chiaureli won four Stalin Prizes and became a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.^[2]

as actor

• Arsen Dzhordjiashvili (1921) as star of the first Soviet film made in Georgia
• The Suram Fortress (1922)
• Iron Hard Labor (1924; Russian: Железная каторга)

as director

• The First Cornet Streshnev (1928)
• Saba (1929)
• Khabarda (1931)
• The Last Masquerade (1934)
• Arsen (1937)
• The Great Dawn (1938)
• Georgi Saakadze (1942)
• Klyatva (The Vow) (1946)
• The Fall of Berlin (1949)
• The Unforgettable Year 1919 (1952)
• The Widow Otarova (1957)
• The Story of a Girl (1960)
• Generals and Daisies (1964)
• Any Other Time (1967)