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Filmmaker · Armenia

Henrik Malyan

Died in 1988

Henrik Malyan was born on 30 September 1925 in Telavi, Georgia; he was the nephew of the actor David Malyan. A draughtsman in a Tbilisi factory from 1942 to 1945, he graduated in 1951 from the directing department of the Yerevan institute of fine arts and theatre, completed his training in 1953 at the Moscow institute of theatrical art and joined Armenfilm in 1954. There he founded in 1980 a studio theatre for the film actor, taught at the institute where he had studied, was made People's Artist of the Soviet Union in 1982 and died in Yerevan on 14 March 1988.

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