Biography

Tsolak Amerikyan was born on October 5, 1887 in Trapizund, Ottoman Empire [now Trabzon, Turkey]. He was an actor, known for Zangezur (1938), Mor sirte (1958) and Hyusisayin tziatzan (1960). He died on August 17, 1964 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR [now Armenia].

Tsolak Amerikyan began his theatrical carrier in Batumi in 1909 working with different Armenian theatrical groups. Since 1931 up to his death he was an actor of Mravyan Dramatic Theater in Leninakan (now Gyumri).