Quatboy Abdreimov

Quatboy Abdreimov was born on 24 May 1937 in the Takhtakupyr district of Karakalpakstan. In 1956 he joined the Berdakh Karakalpak Philharmonic as a ballet dancer and performed there until 1958. In 1958 he entered the Ostrovsky Tashkent Theatre and Art Institute, graduating in 1963.

After the institute he worked at the Stanislavsky Karakalpak Theatre as an actor, director, managing director and chief director, and in the 1960s he was a director at Karakalpak television. On stage he played Othello in his own production of the play, and he also staged Chingiz Aitmatov's “Mother Earth”, T. Seitjanov's “Abu Rayhan Beruni” and J. Aymurzaev's “Berdakh”.

He made his film debut in 1959 as Gapur in “Five Friends”. Reference works call him the first Karakalpak film actor. He appeared in more than twenty films at the Uzbekfilm and Kazakhfilm studios, among them “Hamza” (1960), “Moscow Is Behind Us” (1967), “The Komsomol Members Went Away” (1974), “The Girl from the Legend” (1980) and “The Unyielding One” (1981). His last known role dates from 1992.

In 1973 he received the Berdakh State Prize of the Karakalpak ASSR, in 1974 he was named People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR, and in 1999 he was awarded the Order “El-yurt hurmati”. Quatboy Abdreimov died in Nukus on 8 August 2014.