Merguir Bardisbanian was an Armenian sound engineer, born in Smyrna, in the Aidin Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire on 3 November 1897 and became a naturalized French citizen in December 1929. He trained at the ÃÂcole Centrale Paris, although his instruction was interrupted by World War 1. By 1930, he was a manager of Exploitations cinématographiques in Rueil, France.
A graduate of the ÃÂcole Centrale Paris, he worked as chief operator for the French cinema: