Hrachia Nersisyan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Soviet actor
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Place of Birth: İzmit, Turkey
About Hrachia Nersisyan
- Hrachia Nersisyan (Armenian: ?????? ?????????, 24 November 1895 – 6 November 1961) was a Soviet-Armenian film actor.
- People's Artist of the USSR (1956). Nersisyan was born in Nicomedia, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Izmit, Turkey) and studied in Constantinople.
- He moved to the Soviet Union in 1923, and soon became a film actor. Nersisyan's first credit was in Namus, a 1925 silent movie.
- Later credits include Pepo (1935), Zangezur (1938) (Stalin Prize in 1941), David Bek (1944) and Tjvjik (1961).
- Hrachiya Nersisyan continued acting until the end of his life.
- His work included over two dozen films, including several released posthumously. Hrachia Nersisyan is buried at Komitas Pantheon which is located in the city center of Yerevan.
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