He developed his interest towards acting while watching touring actors perform on the stage of local theatres.
At the age of 14, he started attending vocal classes and learning to play the horn at the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire.
Main roles in classic Azerbaijani films (such Vali in Arshin Mal Alan (1945); Balaoglan in the 1956 screen version of Uzeyir Hajibeyov's musical comedy O olmasin, bu olsun ("Not That One, Then This One"); Zulumov in Ahmad haradadir?
[2] In 1942, Lutfali Abdullayev met 17-year-old Sevda Pepinova and four years later the two hatched plans to marry.
Abdullayev was the son of a merchant and had no undergraduate degree, whereas Sevda came from a family of aristocrats whose wealth was largely expropriated as a result of Sovietization: her father Ahmad bey Pepinov, former minister of labour of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan (ADR), became subject to repression under Stalin and was executed in 1937, and her mother was the daughter of Hasan bey Agayev, vice-speaker of Parliament of ADR.