After returning from the war in 1945, Malik Dadashov went to Azerbaijan State Theatre of Young Spectators and was hired as an actor there.

[1] M.Dadashov started to work at Azerbaijan State Academic National Drama Theatre after graduated.

At that time on the stage of Azerbaijani theatre Alasgar Alakbarov, Mehdi Mammadov, Adil Isgandarov and other corifeys worked.

His first role in the film is in "Leyli and Majnun" by Latif Safarov based on Anvar Mammadkhanli's script in 1961.

In the film about Anatoli Kawaleznik, who was poisoned in Pakistan for political reasons, Malik Dadashov creates the image of Niaz Khan, the country's counter-intelligence commissioner.