In 1975 he graduated from GITIS and was hired by Lenkom Theater director Mark Zakharov.

Aleksandr Abdulov then went on to play in Desyat Negrityat (based on Agatha Christie's mystery novel Ten Little Indians) in 1987 and To Kill a Dragon in 1988.

[3] In 2002 he appeared in the TV series Next (the title is the actual English word), where he played a Russian oligarch.

In 2005, Abdulov had roles in the TV series Anna Karenina and The Master and Margarita.

In the last years of his life, Abdulov had extremely tense relations with the mass media, especially the tabloids.

He vehemently resented all false information about him and hated those unscrupulous journalists who tried to pry into his personal life.

On Man and Law, aired on Russia's Channel One, Abdulov said once that he owned a licensed gun and he would not hesitate to shoot any trespasser who dared to enter the territory of his dacha during his forthcoming birthday party.