
Person
Yeleubai Umurzakov
Acting · 1899–1974 · Kostanay, Kazakhstan
Biography
Yelubai (Yeleubai) Umurzakov Born on January 31, 1899 People’s Artist of the Kazakh SSR (1931). Since 1919, he began participating in performances of the amateur troupe “Red Caravan.” From 1920 to 1923, he worked in the police in Kustanai while continuing to take part in performances and theater life. In 1923, E. Umurzakov entered the Kazakh Institute of National Education “Kino.” Since 1925, Umurzakov was a member of the Central Club of the All-Russian Youth Union of the Kazakh SSR, organized in Orenburg. From 1925, he became an actor of the Kazakh Academic Drama Theater named after M. Auezov. He appeared in films starting from 1938 (his first role was Amangeldy Imanov in the film “Amangeldy”). He passed away on April 2, 1974, in Alma-Ata.
Known for

If Each of Us
1962

Rajchan
1940

Beardless Deceiver
Isa Baksy

Plane Tree on the Rock
mulla

A Special Day
аксакал
Return to Earth
1959

The Land of Our Fathers
Grandfather

Daughter of the Steppes
1954

Red Poppies of Issyk-Kul
Kalmat

Amangeldy
1938
Filmography
- 1973Where the Mountains are White
- 1972A Special Dayаксакал
- 1972The Night at 14th Parallel
- 1971Red Poppies of Issyk-KulKalmat
- 1971White SquareBit part
- 1970The End of the Ataman
- 1969At the Foot of Naizatas
- 1968Road of a Thousand MilesIrimgali
- 1966The Land of Our FathersGrandfather
- 1965Beardless DeceiverIsa Baksy
- 1965Where the Edelweiss BloomsBershimnek
- 1965Plane Tree on the Rockmulla
- 1962If Each of Us
- 1959People of Blue RiversКускельдей
- 1959Return to Earth
- 1954Daughter of the Steppes
- 1948Golden Horn
- 1946Songs of AbaiErden
- 1940Rajchan
- 1938Amangeldy
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