In the history of film, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Armenian, Soviet, Russian actor (1935-2020).
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan was born at Yerevan in 1935. His recorded nationality is Russia.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
He worked as voice actor, theatre director and drama teacher.
Film is a collaborative art in which individual credit is always contested and occasionally deserved.
His recorded fields of work are theatre, film and acting.
His work was formally recognised with the People's Artist of the USSR, Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class and Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class.
That the work was done from Russia matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan died in 2020, aged 85. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Worked as voice actor, theatre director and drama teacher
