Background
NERSESYAN, Grachiya was born on November 12, 1895 in Nicomedia (now Izmir), Turkey.
NERSESYAN, Grachiya was born on November 12, 1895 in Nicomedia (now Izmir), Turkey.
1915 began stage work in Turkey with Arm operetta and Turkish drama theaters. 1918-1922 actor, Arm Drama Social, Constantinople. From 1920 appeared in Turkish films.
1922 moved to USSR; from 1923 actor, Arm State Drama Theater. From 1925 film work; Roles: Hamlet (1924). Macbeth (1933); Falstaff (1939).
Othello (1940); King Lear (1953). Zhadov in Ostrovskiy’s Dokhodnoye mesto (A Lucrative Post). Dikoy in Ostrovskiy’s Groza (The Storm).
Koshkin in “Lyubov’ Yarovaya”. (1927); Bersenev in Lavrenev’s Razlom (Break-Up) (1928). Krechet in Korneychuk’s “Platon Krechet” (1935).
Safonov in Russkiye lyudi (Russian People) (1942). MacGregor in Saroyan’s “My Heart’s in the Highlands” (1961), etc. Elm roles in: “Namus” (1925).
“Khas- Push” (1927); “Gikor” (1934). “Zangezur” (1938); “David-bek” (1944), etc.