Lutfali Amir oglu Abdullayev (Azerbaijani: Lütfəli Abdullayev) (22
March 1914, Nukha, Elisabethpol Governorate â€" 9 December 1973, Baku)
was an Azerbaijani theatre and film actor.Lutfali Abdullayev was born
into a merchant family in the city of Nukha, presently known as Shaki.
He developed his interest towards acting while watching touring actors
perform on the stage of local theatres. Actor Ahmad Anatollu noticed
young Abdullayev's fondness and suggested that he be sent to Baku to
learn about theatre from prominent Azerbaijani actors. At the age of
14, he started attending vocal classes and learning to play the horn
at the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire. In 1939, he became a trouper at
the Azerbaijan State Theatre of Musical Comedy where he worked until
his death. Comedy became the main genre of his acting.Main roles in
classic Azerbaijani films (such Vali in Arshin Mal Alan (1945);
Balaoglan in the 1956 screen version of Uzeyir Hajibeyov's musical
comedy O olmasin, bu olsun ("Not That One, Then This One"); Zulumov in
Ahmad haradadir? ("Where is Ahmad?", 1965), etc.) gained Abdullayev
great fame. He was reportedly compared to Igor Ilyinsky by Russian
critics. He would often receive role offerings from various Russian
theatres but chose to turn them down because of his poor command of
the Russian language.In 1942, Lutfali Abdullayev met 17-year-old Sevda
Pepinova and four years later the two hatched plans to marry. However
Pepinova's mother strongly opposed to this marriage due to class
differences. Abdullayev was the son of a merchant and had no
undergraduate degree, whereas Sevda came from a family of aristocrats
whose wealth was largely expropriated as a result of Sovietization:
her father Ahmed bey Pepinov, former minister of labour of the
Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan (ADR), became subject to repression
under Stalin and was executed in 1937, and her mother was the daughter
of Hasan bey Agayev, vice-speaker of Parliament of ADR. It was not
until 1956, when Pepinova's mother lying on her deathbed agreed to
this marriage. Lutfali Abdullayev lived with his wife for the next 17
years and fathered two daughters, Gulnara and Khurshud.
March 1914, Nukha, Elisabethpol Governorate â€" 9 December 1973, Baku)
was an Azerbaijani theatre and film actor.Lutfali Abdullayev was born
into a merchant family in the city of Nukha, presently known as Shaki.
He developed his interest towards acting while watching touring actors
perform on the stage of local theatres. Actor Ahmad Anatollu noticed
young Abdullayev's fondness and suggested that he be sent to Baku to
learn about theatre from prominent Azerbaijani actors. At the age of
14, he started attending vocal classes and learning to play the horn
at the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire. In 1939, he became a trouper at
the Azerbaijan State Theatre of Musical Comedy where he worked until
his death. Comedy became the main genre of his acting.Main roles in
classic Azerbaijani films (such Vali in Arshin Mal Alan (1945);
Balaoglan in the 1956 screen version of Uzeyir Hajibeyov's musical
comedy O olmasin, bu olsun ("Not That One, Then This One"); Zulumov in
Ahmad haradadir? ("Where is Ahmad?", 1965), etc.) gained Abdullayev
great fame. He was reportedly compared to Igor Ilyinsky by Russian
critics. He would often receive role offerings from various Russian
theatres but chose to turn them down because of his poor command of
the Russian language.In 1942, Lutfali Abdullayev met 17-year-old Sevda
Pepinova and four years later the two hatched plans to marry. However
Pepinova's mother strongly opposed to this marriage due to class
differences. Abdullayev was the son of a merchant and had no
undergraduate degree, whereas Sevda came from a family of aristocrats
whose wealth was largely expropriated as a result of Sovietization:
her father Ahmed bey Pepinov, former minister of labour of the
Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan (ADR), became subject to repression
under Stalin and was executed in 1937, and her mother was the daughter
of Hasan bey Agayev, vice-speaker of Parliament of ADR. It was not
until 1956, when Pepinova's mother lying on her deathbed agreed to
this marriage. Lutfali Abdullayev lived with his wife for the next 17
years and fathered two daughters, Gulnara and Khurshud.
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