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Alex Hakobian | |
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Born | Stuttgart, Germany | October 10, 1946
Died | April 20, 2023 Tarzana, California, U.S. | (aged 76)
Alma mater | UCLA |
Occupation(s) | Teacher, Filmmaker |
Alex Hakobian was an American educator and filmmaker. He taught video production in Los Angeles, California from 1986 until 2012. The short films he produced with his students over the years won over 300 local, state, national, and international awards cumulatively over the course of his career.[1]
Biography
[edit]Hakobian was born in 1946 in Stuttgart, Germany, and immigrated to the United States to Fresno, California.
He attended Roosevelt High School in Fresno where he played for the Roosevelt Rough Riders football team and starred in the school's 1964 theater production of The Curious Savage under the direction of Alice Merrill.Cite error: A <ref>
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(see the help page).[2] He enrolled at Fresno City College, continuing his passion for acting through community theater and college productions.
Hakobian began career in the television industry at KJEO-TV, an ABC network affiliate, where he appeared in commercials for Anderson Ford, a local car dealership. His film debut came in 1970 with the MGM production Tick…Tick…Tick..., directed by Ralph Nelson. Hakobian continued to contribute to the industry as a gaffer for low-budget films and as a screenwriter for projects such as The Forty Days of Musa Dagh in 1982.[3]
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Siegel, Sandy. “Teaching Movie-Making to Teens.” UCLA Magazine. 15 Apr. 2009.
- ^ “Character Actor to Make Bow in New MGM Flicker.” The Armenian Weekly [Boston, Massachussets, 15 Jan. 1970, p. 5.
- ^ Welky, David. “Global Hollywood Versus National Pride: The Battle to Film The Forty Days of Musa Dagh.” Film Quarterly, vol. 59, no. 3, 2006, pp. 35-43. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/fq.2006.59.3.35.
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