Frunze Dovlatyan

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1927-05-26

Deathday 1997-08-30 (70 years old)

Place of Birth Nor Bayezet, Armenian SSR, TSFSR, USSR [now Gavar, Armenia]

Also Known As F. Dovlatyan

Frunze Dovlatyan

Biography

Frunze Vaghinaki Dovlatyan (Armenian: Ֆրունզե Վաղինակի Դովլաթյան; May 26, 1927 – August 30, 1997) was an Armenian film director, screenwriter and actor. Frunze Dovlatyan was born in Gavar, Soviet Armenia, a brother to Vram Dovlatyan. He was a theater actor before becoming a director. He starred as an actor in Armenian provincial theatres from 1941 and then in Gabriel Sundukian Drama Theatre of Yerevan, where he was awarded Stalin Prize for his performance in the role of Hrayr in the play Ays astgherë mern en ("These Stars Are Ours"). In 1959, he graduated from the directing department of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, where he studied under Sergei Gerasimov. His most well-known film is Barev, yes em ("Hello, That's Me!", 1967), which received the State Prize of the Armenian SSR. Dovlatyan headed the Armenfilm state film studio in the 1980s. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1983. He died in Yerevan aged 70. He is buried in Tokhmakh Cemetery in Yerevan.

Known For

Director

1990
Yearning

as Director

1987
1979
Live Long

as Director

1976
Երկունք

as Director

1974
1969
Saroyan Brothers

as Co-Director

1966
Hello, It's Me!

as Director

1963
Morning Trains

as Director

1961

Actor

1986
Otar khagher

as Асланян

1969
Saroyan Brothers

as Hayk Saroyan

1966
Hello, It's Me!

as Zaryan

1959
Why Does The River Roar?

as Armen Manukyan

1947
Anahit

as Vachagan

1944
David Bek

as Melik Mansour

Writer

1979
Live Long

as Writer

1969
Saroyan Brothers

as Creative Producer