Yervand Manaryan ( hy, Երվանդ Մանարյան; September 20, 1924 – February 19, 2020) was an

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkm ...

ian-born

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actor. Manaryan was born in

Arak, Iran Arak ( fa, اراک, ''Arâk''; ) is the capital of Markazi Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 526,182, in 160,761 families. The city is nicknamed the "Industrial Capital of Iran". As a major industrial city, Arak hosts sever ...

in 1924 in a family from Agulis, Nakhichevan. In 1946 his family repatriated to Soviet Armenia along with thousands of other Iranian Armenians. He was an

atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

. The actor was a member of the

Armenian National Congress The Armenian National Congress ( hy, italic=yes, Հայ Ազգային Կոնգրես, translit=Hay Azgayin Kongres) is an Armenian political party led by former president Levon Ter-Petrosyan and formed in 2008. Its direct predecessor was the ...

of former President

Levon Ter-Petrosyan Levon Hakobi Ter-Petrosyan ( hy, Լևոն Հակոբի Տեր-Պետրոսյան; born 9 January 1945), also known by his initials LTP, is an Armenian politician who served as the first president of Armenia from 1991 until his resignation in 199 ...

. Manaryan died in February 2020, aged 95.

Filmography

According to

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*''Karine'' (1969) *''Morgan's Relative'' (1970) *''Chaos'' (1974) *''A Bride from the North'' (1975) *''Priekhali na konkurs povara...'' (1977) *''Arevik'' (1978) *''Captain Arakel'' (1986) *''Comrade Panjuni'' (1992) *''Le piano'' (2011) *''Garegin Nzhdeh'' (2013)

Awards

* Honored Artist of Armenia (2003) * Artavazd Award of the UTEA (2005) * Honorary Citizen of Yerevan (2019)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Manaryan, Yervand 1924 births 2020 deaths 20th-century Armenian male actors Iranian people of Armenian descent Iranian emigrants to the Soviet Union People from Arak, Iran 21st-century Armenian male actors Armenian atheists Armenian male film actors People from Nakhchivan