Background
Osip Naumovich Abdulov was born to a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire) in 1900.
Osip Naumovich Abdulov was born to a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire) in 1900.
He briefly studied at Moscow University (now Moscow State University) in 1917 before turning his interest to acting.
Amateur acting while studying at Faculty of Social Sciences, Moscow University. 1918-1923 acted at Chaliapin Studio, where his first role Was the tramp in Schnitzler’s ’’The Green Parrot” (1919). Acted at Komissarzhevskaya Theater, where he played Rasplyuyev in a stage adaptation of Sukhovo-Kobylin’s Otzhitoye vremya (Past Time), and at Moscow Academy Arts Theater.
1929 joined studio theater managed by Yu. A. Zavadskiy; 1938-1942 acted at Moscow Theater of the Revol. 1943-1953 at Mossovet Theater.
His acting technique was a masterly combination of lush comedy and a fine sense of humor and irony. From 1924 he also performed on radio, producing over 200 radio plays and preparing children's programs. From 1933 he played film roles and taught acting at the Zavadskiy Studio.
Stage Roles: Krutitskiy in Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovol'no prostoty (There’s a Simpleton in Every Sage) (1928). General Burgoyne in Shaw’s ’’The Devil’s Disciple” (1933). Lynyaev in Volki i ovtsy (The Wolves and the Sheep) (1934).
Knurov in Bespridannitsa (Girl Without a Dowry) (1940). Fromanteville in Verneuil’s "School for Debtors” (1936). Narzulaycv in Voytekhov and Lench’s Pavel Grekov (1939).
Sorin in Chayka (The Seagull) (1945). Uncle Vasya in Nushich's Gospozha ministersha (Mrs Minister) (1946). Bob Murphy in Russkiy vopros (The Russian Question) (1947).
Academy Ryzhov in Surov’s Rassvet nad Moskvoy (Dawn over Moscow) (1950). The old bard in Khikmet’s Rasskaz o Turtsii (A Tale of Turkey) (1953). Film Roles: the professor in Pokoleniye pobediteley (A Generation of Conquerors) (1936).
The director in Svetlyy put’ (The Radiant Path) (1940). Isaacs in Aleksandr Popov (1949), et cetera