Actors - Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Home > Listing Index > Actors > Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

	Actors - Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Armen Dzigarkhanyan (, b. 1935) is the most popular Armenian actor working in Russia. He starred in dozens Soviet films (e.g., The Elusive Avengers
), provided the voice for many Soyuzmultfilm cartoon characters, and founded his own theater in Moscow.

Born in 1935 in Yerevan, Armen Dzigarkhanyan worked as assistant cameraman at Armenfilm studios in 1953-1954. Dzhigarkhanyan began his acting career in 1955 at the Russian Stanislavsky Theater in Yerevan, and in 1967 moved to the Lenkom Theater in Moscow. In 1969 he joined the Mayakovsky Academic Theater. Dzhigarkhanyan was awarded the Armenian Republican State Prize in 1975 for "Triangle" and again in 1979 for "Snow in Mourning." He famously appeared as a chief gangster in the 1979 TV series "Meeting Place Can't Be Changed", playing against Vladimir Vysotsky cast as a police investigator. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1985.

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Armen Dzhigarkhanyan ]

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Armen Dzhigarkhanyan; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.

Searches on eBay