Kevork Malikyan
Kevork Malikyan (born June 2, 1943 in Diyarbakır ) is a British actor of Armenian descent from Turkey .
Born in Diyarbakır in eastern Turkey, Malikyan moved to Istanbul at the age of 10 to receive religious education at the Surp Chatsch High School . In 1963 he moved to London and began his theater and film career.
After Malikyan made his film premiere in 1970 with A Man Chasing Himself , his best-known role to date as Kazim in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade followed in 1989 . For a long time of his acting career, Malikyan was engaged in series and also in television productions. He also took on a role in 1993 for the series The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones .
More recently, his best-known film was the new edition of The Flight of the Phoenix , followed by an appearance in the television film Saddam's Tribe outside of his work in TV series . At the end of 2011 he finally returned to his home country after decades and starred in a Turkish television series called Bir Ömür Yetmez .
Since October 2017, with the beginning of the second season, Kevork Malikyan has played in the Turkish series Payitaht Abdülhamid .
Filmography (selection)
- 1968: The Portrait of a Lady (TV series)
- 1970: The Man Who Haunted Himself (The Man Who Haunted Himself)
- 1972: Adam Smith (TV series)
- 1978: 12 noon - Midnight Express (Midnight Express)
- 1978: The Thief of Baghdad (TV movie)
- 1981: The Curse of the Sphinx (Sphinx)
- 1981: Peter and Paul (TV movie)
- 1986: Half Moon Street
- 1988: The Forgotten Island (Pascali's Island)
- 1989: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- 1992: Double Vision (TV movie)
- 1992: One, two, buckle my shoe (TV movie)
- 1993: The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles ( The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles , television series, one episode)
- 1995: paparazzo
- 1997: Into the Blue (TV movie)
- 2000: In the Beginning (TV movie)
- 2003: Casualty (TV series)
- 2004: The Predator (short film)
- 2004: The Flight of the Phoenix (Flight of the Phoenix)
- 2005: Egypt (TV series)
- 2007: Saddam's Tribe (TV movie)
- 2012: 96 Hours - Taken 2 (Taken 2)
- 2014: The Cut
- 2014: Exodus : Gods and Kings
- 2017: Payitaht: Abdülhamid (TV series)
- 2020: Homeland (TV series)
Web links
- Kevork Malikyan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Papaz olarak gitti aktör olarak döndü , article in Hürriyet of December 25, 2011
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Malikyan, Kevork |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actor of Armenian descent |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1943 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Diyarbakır |