David Malyan
# David Malyan

David Melkumovich Malyan (Armenian: Դավիթ Մալյան, 17 April 1904 – 17 July 1976) was a Soviet and Armenian film and stage actor, theater director and pedagogue.

## Education and career

David Malyan studied at Armenian Drama studio in Tbilisi from 1922-23 and worked in theaters in Yerevan, Tbilisi, Leninakan. He was one of the leading actors of the Sundukyan Drama Theatre of Yerevan since 1932.

## Awards

* Honored Artist of the Armenian SSR (1936)
* People's Artist of the Armenian SSR (1943)
* People's Artist of the USSR (1974)
* Two Stalin Prizes (1950, 1952)
* Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1944, 1956)
* Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"
* Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

## Filmography

* Shor and Shorshor (1926) – Satan
* Pepo (1935) – Kakuli
* Zangezur (1938) – Makich
* David Bek (1944) – Stepan Shaumian (voice dubbed by Alexander Khvylya)
