Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
February 22, 1922
Died
May 5, 1978 (56 years old)
Place of Birth
Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR, USSR
Also Known As
- Medjid Begalin
- Мажит Бегалин
- Мәжит Бегалин
- М. Бегалин
Mazhit Begalin
Biography
MAZHIT BEGALIN
February 22, 1922, Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR, USSR — May 5, 1978, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR.
Film director, screenwriter, actor. Honored Art Worker of the Kazakh SSR (1977).
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He graduated from the Directing Department of VGIK in 1948 (workshop of S.A. Gerasimov and T.F. Makarova).
Since 1950, he worked as a director at the Kazakhfilm studio.
His father was the well-known Kazakh writer Sapargali Iskakovich Begalin (1895–1983).
His wife was actress Lyudmila Ivanova (1925–1995).
His son was actor and stuntman Nartai Begalin (1951–1993).
