David Malyan

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|4|17}}

| birth_place = Zaqatala, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1976|7|17|1904|4|17}}

| death_place = Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union

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| occupation = Actor, theater director and pedagogue

| years_active = 1926–1976

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| relatives = Henrik Malyan (nephew)

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

Education and career

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David Malyan studied at Armenian Drama studio in Tbilisi from 1922 to 1923 and worked in theaters in Yerevan, Tbilisi, Leninakan. He was one of the leading actors of the Sundukyan Drama Theatre of Yerevan since 1932.{{cite web |url= http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/acter/m/sov/30449/bio/|title= Давид Малян (David Malyan) - биография - Кино-Театр.РУ |date= |website= |publisher= |access-date=9 August 2015 |quote=}}{{cite web|url= http://www.arm-cinema.am/en/actors/22.html|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120329164119/http://www.arm-cinema.am/en/actors/22.html|url-status= dead|archive-date= 29 March 2012|title= David Malyan - Armenian Cinema|date= |website= |publisher= |access-date= 9 August 2015|quote= }}

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"{{cite web |url= http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/acter/m/sov/30449/bio/|title= Давид Малян (David Malyan) - биография - Кино-Театр.РУ |date= |website= |publisher= |access-date= 9 August 2015 |quote=}}