| Ashot Melikjanyan | |
| Native Name: | Ашот Меликджанян |
| Birth Date: | 20 April 1952 |
| Birth Place: | Soviet Armenia |
| Death Date: | 12 November 2001 (age 49) |
| Death Place: | Queens, New York, United States |
| Nationality: | Soviet, American |
| Occupation: | Actor |
| Years Active: | 1972–1990 |
Ashot Melikjanyan or Melikdzhanyan (20 April 1952 — 12 November 2001) was a Soviet Armenian actor.[1]
Ashot Melikdjanyan was born in the Soviet Union on the 20th of April in 1952.
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.
Melikdjanyan was killed in the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in New York City on 12 November 2001.[2]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | f | Yearning | Aram[3] | ||
| 1985 | f | Captain Arakel | Varuzhan | ||
| 1983 | f | Without much risk | Avetisov Levon Surenovich (main role) inspector of Criminal Investigation, Senior Police Lieutenant | ||
| 1980 | f | Flight starts from the ground | Armen (the son of Khoren) | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1972 | f | Ayrik | Meruzhan (voiced by Stanislav Zakharov) |