Aram A Avakian was an American film editor and director.
15 Facts About Aram Avakian
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Aram "Al" Avakian was born in Manhattan, New York, in 1926 to Armenian parents from Iran and Soviet Georgia.
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Aram Avakian graduated Horace Mann School and Yale University before serving as a Naval officer on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific.
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In 1953, Avakian returned to the United States and apprenticed under famed photographer Gjon Mili who got him started in documentary editing.
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From 1955 to 1958, Avakian was the editor of Edward R Murrow's program See It Now.
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Aram Avakian introduced Kerouac to Jazz at Horace Mann, where they both edited the school newspaper.
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Aram Avakian soon became a feature film editor and director.
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Aram Avakian edited the feature film Girl of the Night, "acknowledged for its early use of the freeze frame and the jump cut" in American films.
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End Here, Arthur Penn's The Miracle Worker, Robert Rossen's Lilith, Penn's Mickey One, in which Aram Avakian plays the disembodied voice of Warren Beatty's tormentor, and, Francis Ford Coppola's editor on You're a Big Boy Now, Jerry Schatzberg's Honeysuckle Rose.
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Aram Avakian directed and edited the movie End of the Road, which received an "X" rating for its graphic depiction of an abortion.
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For End of the Road, Aram Avakian received the Golden Leopard Award at the Locarno International Film Festival.
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Aram Avakian directed and edited Cops and Robbers, One Night Stands and 11 Harrowhouse.
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From 1983 through 1986, Aram Avakian was chairman of the film department at State University of New York at Purchase.
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Francis Ford Coppola and Terry Southern wrote letters about Aram Avakian, which were read aloud, and Gerry Mulligan played his saxophone, as well as others.
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For fifteen years, Aram Avakian was married to actress and writer Dorothy Tristan until 1972.