Avet Avetisyan

Soviet actor

Avet Avetisyan
Ավետ Մարկոսի Ավետիսյան
Born	(1878-03-21)March 21, 1878 Tbilisi, Georgia
Died	March 29, 1971(1971-03-29) (aged 73) Yerevan, Armenia
Nationality	Armenian
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1925-1970

Avet Avetisyan (Armenian: Ավետ Ավետիսյան 24 November [O.S. 12 November] 1897 - March 29, 1971) was a Soviet Armenian film actor.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Biography

In 1905, Avetisyan was accepted to the Nersisian School, where he participated in school plays. Before leaving for the army (in 1916), Avetisyan worked in a manufacturing shop as a student and clerk. After being discharged from the military (in 1918) he joined Hovhannes Abelyan's theater company in Baku. Avetisyan's debut performance occurred in 1918 as Voskan in Alexander Shirvanzade's Evil Spirit (Char Vogi). Then, Avetisyan went to Tbilisi with Abelyan, where he performed in an Armenian drama group (1919). During 1920-1921, Avetisyan performed with the Amo Kharazyan [hy] group in Karakilisa (modern Vanadzor). In 1922, Avetisyan moved to Yerevan as part of the touring theatre before being accepted to the famous Sundukyan State Academic Theatre, where he continued to write for the rest of his life. Avetisyan has acted in 28 Armenian movies.^[4] Avetisyan is buried in the Komitas Pantheon.

Theatre Credits

Pantalone in Carlo Goldoni's "Maid of Two Households" (1923)
Zemlyanika in Nikolai Gogol's "Revisor" (1923)
Orgon in Molière's "Tartuffe" (1924)
Sako in Derenik Demirchian's "Nazar the Brave" (1924)
Matvey Yegorich in Vrtanes Papazian's "Boulder"
Zambakhov in Gabriel Sundukian's "Khatabala" (1927)
Parsigh in Gabriel Sundukian's "The Destroyed Home" (1938)
Sarkis in Gabriel Sundukian's "Another Victim" (1944)
Pepo in Gabriel Sundukian's "Pepo" (1929, 1935, 1948)
Mikitan in Perch Proshyan's "Bread's Problem" (1937)
Shprikh in Mikhail Lermontov's "Masquerade" (1949)
Dostigayev in Maxim Gorky's "Dostigayev and Others" (1934)
Saghatel in Alexander Shirvanzade's "For the Sake of Honour" (1939)
Marutkhanyan in Alexander Shirvanzade's "Chaos" (1959)
Shvandya in Konstantin Trenyov's "Lyubov Yarovaya"
Berest in Oleksandr Korniychuk's "Platon Kretchet"
Shadrin in Nikolai Pogodin's "Man With a Gun" (1938)
Kutuzov in Vladimir Solovyov [ru]'s "Field Marshal Kutuzov" (1942)
Sahag Svata in Muratsan's "Gevorg Marzpetuni" (1941)
Globa in K. Simonov's "Russian People" (1942)
Shulga in Mikhail Sholokhov's "Young Guard" (1947)
Grinyov in Anatoly Sofronov's "Moscow's Mood" (1949)
Moshig in Yeghishe Charents' "Towards the Future" (1960)
Robinson in Alexander Ostrovsky's "The Poor Bride" (1946)
Yepikhodov in Anton Chekhov's "Cherry Park" (1951)^[5]

Filmography

Namus (1925)
Zare (1925)
Shor and Shorshor (1926)
Khaspush (1927)
Golkhozain Karoon (1929)
Gime Hertabah (1930)
Kikos (1931)
Krter-Yeztiner (1932)
Gikor (1934)
Pepo (1935)
Karo (1937)
Zangezur (1938)
Lernain Arshav (1939)
Nazar the Brave (1940)
Hayrenaseri Endanike (1941)
Toosdre (1942)
David Bek (1943)
Anahit (1947)
Araradian Tasdi Aghchige (1949)
Badvi Hamar (1956)
Inchoo e Aghmgoom Kede (1958)
Ploozoom (1959)
Northern Rainbow (1960)
Sayat-Nova (1960)
Monsieur Jacques and Others (1964)
An Explosion After Midnight (1969)
Adam and Heva (1969)
Morgan's Relative (1970)^[6]

Awards and honours

1938 - People's Artist of the Armenian SSR
1941 - Stalin Prize, 2nd Degree, for his role as the Commander in Zangezur
1962 - People's Artist of the USSR
1971 - USSR State Prize
Order of Lenin
3 other honours and medals

Documentaries

Avet Avetisyan (1966)

References

^ "Avet Avetisyan - Armenian Cinema". Archived from the original on 29 September 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
^ "AV Production - Avet Avetisyan". Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
^ "Авет Аветисян - КиноПоиск.ru". Retrieved 11 November 2016.
^ Ավետ Ավետիսյանը Դպրոցական Մեծ Հանրագիտարանում, գիրք II
^ Հայ սովետական թատրոնի պատմություն. Երևան: ՀՍՍՀ Գիտությունների Ակադեմիայի Հրատարակչություն. 1967.
^ ["Ավետ Ավետիսյանը "Հայկական կինո" կայքում (in English)". Archived from the original on 2013-09-29. Retrieved 2016-11-11. Ավետ Ավետիսյանը «Հայկական կինո» կայքում (in English)]