Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Also known as Armén Dzhigarjanián, Armen Borisovich Dzhigarkhanyan

Armenian, Soviet, Russian actor (1935-2020)

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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan was an Armenian-Soviet-Russian actor who had a long career spanning most of the twentieth century, from 1935 to 2020. He is notable as a prominent performer from the Soviet era whose work bridged Armenian, Soviet, and Russian cinema and theater traditions.

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Armen Borisovich Dzhigarkhanyan (3 October 1935 – 14 November 2020) was a Soviet, Armenian, and Russian actor.

Born and raised in Yerevan, Dzhigarkhanyan started acting in the academic and Russian theaters of the city, before moving to Moscow to continue stage acting. Since 1960, he appeared in a number of Armenian films. He became popular in the 1970s with the various roles he portrayed in Soviet films like The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers (1968), its sequel The Crown of the Russian Empire, or Once Again the Elusive Avengers (1971) and The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979). After almost 30 years on the stage of the Mayakovsky Theatre, Dzhigarkhanyan taught at VGIK and in 1996 he founded his own drama theater in Moscow.