Rafael P. Babayan

Director | Actor | Writer

Date of birth : 08/11/1927

Date of death : 02/12/1998

City of birth : Erivan, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR [now Yerevan, Armenia]

In 1949 he graduated from the artistic department of VGIK, and animating courses of "Soyuzmultfilm" (Moscow). During 1950 he was art director of Yerevan Young Spectator Theater, and between 1950-52, art director of Puppet Theater. Since 1953 he has worked at Armenfilm. In the 1960s, along with Valentin Podpomogov and Stepan Andranikyan he revived the Armenian animation film.