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Ashot Melikjanyan

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Ashot Melikjanyan
Ашот Меликджанян
Melikjanyan in 1983
Born20 April 1952[1]
DiedNovember 12, 2001(2001-11-12) (aged 49)
NationalitySoviet, American
OccupationActor
Years active1972–1990

Ashot Melikjanyan or Melikdzhanyan (20 April 1952 — 12 November 2001) was a Soviet Armenian actor.[1]

Early life, family and education

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Ashot Melikdjanyan was born in the Soviet Union 20 April 1952.

Career

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Melikdjanyan began his acting career at the Yerevan Dramatic Theater. His first on-screen performance was playing the role of Meruzhan in the 1972 film Ayrik. He then starred as the protagonist in the 1979 film Air Pedestrians, filmed at the Uzbekfilm film studio.

He starred in the 1983 film Without Much Risk which was filmed at the Gorky Film Studio. Melikdjanyan's last appearance was in the 1990 film Yearning, which was filmed at the Armenfilm studio.

After the Soviet Union collapsed, Melikdjanyan emigrated with his family to the United States, where he worked at a jewelry factory which supervised one of its branches in the Dominican Republic.

Death

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Melikdjanyan was killed in the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in New York City on 12 November 2001.[2]

Filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
1990 f Yearning Aram[2][3][full citation needed]
1985 f Captain Arakel Varuzhan[3]
1983 f Without Much Risk Avetisov Levon Surenovich (main role) inspector of Criminal Investigation, Senior Police Lieutenant [3]
1980 f Flight Starts from the Ground Armen (the son of Khoren)[3]
1980 f Air Pedestrians Akmal Tursunbayev (main role) voiced by Alexey Safonov
1978 tf And Happiness Is Near Character name unspecified
1973 f The Bad Good Man Achmianov[3]
1972 f Ayrik Meruzhan (voiced by Stanislav Zakharov)[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "ZARK Foundation - Ashot Melikjanyan". zarkfoundation.com.
  2. ^ a b "Ashot Melikdzhanyan". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Меликджанян Ашот /Энциклопедия кино 2010 [Melikjanian Ashot / Encyclopedia of Cinema 2010] (in Russian)

See also

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