People's Artist of Armenia, film and stage actor Rafael Kotanjyan has died, Spurnik Armena reports citing the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport.

Kotanjyan would turn 80 in September.

The actor was known for a number of roles, including in the movies "I Hate the Story of Romeo & Juliet" (2004), "Ktor me yerkinq" (1980) and "Ubiystvo v Sanshayn-Menor".