Murad Yagizarov (Azerbaijani: Hacı Murad Yagizarov, b. 18 July 1939; Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani actor. He was honored as the People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR in 1982.[1]
Life
Haji Murad Haji Ahmed oglu Yagizarov was born on July 18, 1939, in Baku. While studying at school, he performed in the drama club. The famous actor Alasgar Alakbarov, who watched the speech, advised him to enter the Theater Institute. He studied at the acting faculty of the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts in the course of Maharram Hashimov (1958–1962). Since 1962, he has been working at the Azerbaijan State Academic Russian Drama Theatre named after Samad Vurgun.[2]
Yagiazarov was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1973 to 1991.
Family
His great-grandfather was descended from the Shamakhi Khans. One side of it is from Kumyks of Buynaksk. After the October revolution, his father was exiled from the city of Buynaksk to Siberia, but after many years he was able to return to Baku. People from the same roots as him live in Makhachkala, Kislovodsk, Baku and other cities of the Caucasus.[3][4]
Filmography
List:
- 1958 - The Stepmother (1958 film)
- 1960 - Matteo Falcone
- 1965 - The Cloth Peddler
- 1961 - Life Teaches
- 1962 - The Great Support - Shirzad, the secretary of the party organization
- 1964 - Ulduz
- 1966 - Arshin Mal Alan - Suleyman
- 1967 - A Man Drops Anchor - Murad
- 1969 - In a Southern Town - Writer Jangir
- 1973 - Favorable Wind - Prince Talybov
- 1979 - Forgive Us - Valid
- 1979 - Babek
- 1981 - The Day After Tomorrow, at Midnight - Mustafa Mamedov
- 1984 - Knights of the Black Lake - Fattakhov
- 1984 - On Distant Shores
- 2011 - "Don't Be Afraid, I'm with You! 1919" - Minister of War
Awards
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