Osip Naumovich Abdulov was a Soviet

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 actor.

Biography

Osip Naumovich Abdulov was born to a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland

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 (then part of the Russian Empire

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) in 1900. He briefly studied at Moscow University (now Moscow State University

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) in 1917 before turning his interest to acting.

Abdulov began working at the Shalyapin studio in 1918, where he had first performing role in 1919. He worked at various theaters in Moscow during the 1920s and 1930s and joined the company of the Theater of the Mossovet in 1943.

Abdulov additionally worked for Soviet radio broadcasting (first as an announcer and actor, then as a director) in 1924. He was involved in radio plays based on the dramatic works of Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland

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, Alphonse Daudet

Alphonse Daudet

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, Charles Dickens

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, Nikolay Gogol, and Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky

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 and took part in organizing artistic broadcasting for children. Abdulov worked as a news reader on Soviet radio during World War II

World War II

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.

Abdulov began to appear in films in 1933.

He became a People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1944. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

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 in 1949 and a Stalin State Prize (second degree) in 1951.

Osip Abdulov's son Vsevolod Osipovich Abdulov (1942 - 2002) also became a notable actor. Both were interred at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery in Moscow.

Theater roles

Year	Title	Playwright(s)	Role
1928	Enough Stupidity for Every Wise Man	Alexander Ostrovsky	Krupitsky
1933	The Devil's Disciple The Devil's Disciple The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist, George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright...	George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...	General Burgoyne John Burgoyne General John Burgoyne was a British army officer, politician and dramatist. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War when he participated in several battles, mostly notably during the Portugal Campaign of 1762....
1933	Wolves and Sheep	Alexander Ostrovsky	Lynyayev
1933	The School for Taxpayers	Louis Verneuil Louis Verneuil Louis Jacques Marie Collin du Bocage , better known by the pen name Louis Verneuil, was a French playwright, screenwriter, and actor....  and Georges Berr	Fromanteel
1940	Without a Dowry	Alexander Ostrovsky	Knurov
1945	The Seagull The Seagull The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896...	Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...	Sorin
1945	The Cabinet Minister's Wife	Branislav Nušić Branislav Nušic Branislav Nušić was a Serbian novelist of Aromanian descent, playwright, satirist, essayist and founder of modern rhetoric in Serbia. He also worked as a journalist and a civil servant.- Biography :...	Uncle Vas
1950	Dawn Over Moscow	Anatoly Surov	Academician Ryzhov
1953	The Story of Turkey	Nâzım Hikmet Nazim Hikmet Nâzım Hikmet Ran , commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet , was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements"...	Old ashik Ashik An Ashik is a mystic troubadour or traveling bard, in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, and Iran who sings and plays the saz, a form of lute. Ashiks' songs are semi-improvised around common bases....

Film roles

Year	Title	Director(s)	Role
1936	The Last Night	Yuly Rayzman and Dmitry Ivanovich Vasilyev	Colonel
1936	The Dawn of Paris	Grigory Roshal	Vasse Jr.
1937	Treasure Island Treasure Island Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book on May 23, 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881–82 under the title Treasure Island; or, the...	Vladimir Vaynshtok	Long John Silver Long John Silver Long John Silver is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of the novel Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Silver is also known by the nicknames "Barbecue" and the "Sea-Cook".- Profile :...
1938	The Oppenheim Family	Grigory Roshal	Jacques Lavendel
1938	Honor	Yevgeny Chervyakov	Engineer
1945	The Man in a Case	Isidor Annensky	Tarantulov
1940	Shining Path	Vitkor Ardov	Dorokhov
1941	The Swineherd and the Shepherd	Ivan Pyryev Ivan Pyryev Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev , served as Director of the Mosfilm studios and was, for a time, the most influential man in the Soviet motion picture industry.Pyryev was born in Kamen-na-Obi, now Altai Krai, Russia...	Levon Mikhaylovich
1941	How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich	Andrey Kustov and Anisim Mazur	Town governor
1941	The Sea Hawk	Vladimir Braun	Ivan Akimovich
1944	The Wedding	Isidor Annensky	Dymba the Greek
1944	The Duel	Vladimir Legoshin	Gestapo Colonel Krauschke
1949	Alexander Popov Alexander Popov (film) Alexander Popov is a 1949 biographical film about the life and work of Alexander Stepanovich Popov, who was the notable physicist and electrical engineer, inventor of radio communication....	Herbert Rappaport Herbert Rappaport Herbert Rappaport , known in the Soviet Union as Gerbert Moritsevich Rappaport, was an Austrian-Soviet screenwriter and film director....  and Vitkor Eysymont	Isaacs

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