Ashot Melikjanyan

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

Ashot Melikjanyan
Ашот Меликджанян
Melikjanyan in 1983
Born20 April 1952[1]
Soviet Union
Died12 November 2001 (age 49)
Belle Harbor, Queens, New York City, New York, United States
NationalitySoviet, American
OccupationActor
Years active1972–1990

Early life, family and education

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

Career

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 movie Without much risk which was filmed at the Gorky Film Studio. Melikdjanyan's last appearance was in the 1990 movie Yearning, which was filmed at the Armenfilm studio.

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

Death

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

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1990 f Yearning Aram[2][3]
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
  1. "AV Production - Ashot Melikjanyan". avproduction.am. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
  2. "Ashot Melikdzhanyan". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
  3. Меликджанян Ашот /Энциклопедия кино 2010 [Melikjanian Ashot / Encyclopedia of Cinema 2010] (in Russian)
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