David Melkumovich Malyan ( hy, Դավիթ Մալյան, 17 April 1904 in Zakatala - 17 July 1976 in

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film and stage actor.

Education and career

David Malyan studied at Armenian Drama studio in Tbilisi from 1922 to 23 and Worked in the theatres in

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, Leninakan. He was one of the leading actors of the Sundukyan Drama Theatre of Yerevan Since 1932 .

Awards

* Honored Artist of the Armenian SSR (1936). *

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(1943). * People's Artist of the USSR (1974).

Filmography

* 1926 - Shor and Shorshor (as devil) * 1935 -

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(as Kakuli) * 1937 - Six Shots (as officer) * 1938 - Sevan's Fishermen (as Aram) * 1938 -

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(as Makich) * 1939 - Mountainous March (as Vardan) * 1941 - Blood for Blood (as commander of a tank), short * 1941 - Family of Patriots (as Levon), short * 1943 - David-Bek (as Shahumyan) * 1947 - Anahit (as Hrant) * 1955 - Ghosts Leave the Peaks (as Satunts) * 1955 - Looking of the Addressee (as Suren) * 1956 - The Heart Sings (as Markaryan) * 1957 - Personally Known (as Kon) * 1957 - To Whom the Life Smiles (as Metsaturyan) * 1958 - What's All the Noise of the River About? (as Darbinyan) * 1960 - They are to Live (as Petrosyan) * 1961 - Twelve Companions (as Minasyan) * 1964 - The Difficult Pass (Davtyan) * 1966 - Hunter From Lalvar (as senior hunter)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Malyan, David Armenian male film actors Armenian male stage actors 1904 births 1976 deaths 20th-century Armenian male actors Soviet male actors