Alty Karliev[a] (January 6, 1909 – December 11, 1973)[1] was a Soviet and Turkmen stage and film actor, director and dramatist.
He studied at the Turkmen Drama Studio and the Baku Theatre College (today the Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts), graduating from the latter in 1931.
After this, he worked as an actor at the Ashkhabad Drama Theatre (today the Mollanepes Student Theater).
Other notable film roles included Nury in Dursun [uk] (1940) and Aldar Kose in The Magic Crystal (1945).
His first directing credit was in 1957, when he worked with Yevgeni Ivanov-Barkov on the first color film produced by Turkmenfilm, Extraordinary Mission.