Early Life and Education
Kenneth Davitian was born on June 19, 1953 in an Armenian-American family in East Los Angeles. His father had served in the Russian Red Army during World War II and had been captured by the Germans, and eventually found his way to Los Angeles with its sizable Armenian community. Davitian, his father and grandfather were in the waste removal business. In 1992, he created a subsidiary company, DESONA, for the purpose of contracting with the country of Mexico for waste disposal services winning a multimillion-dollar contract with the Mexican City of Naucalpan. On March 21, 1994, the City of Naucalpan annulled the agreement which prompted one of the first lawsuits involving NAFTA. His teenage idol was Burt Reynolds, who greatly influenced his choice of becoming an actor. A graduate of Garfield High School, he briefly attended East Los Angeles Community College.
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