Biography

• Name: Hassan Youssef
• Date of Birth: 10 December 1934
• Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt
• Profession: Actor and Director
• Status: Alive

Early Life and Education

• Raised in Cairo, he discovered his passion for the arts early through school and university theater.
• He pursued formal studies in performance and directing before turning professional as an actor in the late 1950s.

Career

• He began his film career in the late 1950s and rose to prominence in the 1960s as one of Egyptian cinema’s leading romantic and youth icons.
• In the 1970s, he branched into film directing alongside acting.
• On television, the drama series “Al-Imam al-Sha'rawi” (1997) is among his most celebrated works and a major popular success. Note: It’s a biographical series about the renowned Egyptian Islamic scholar Muhammad Metwally al-Sha'rawi.
• Over the decades, he has appeared in dozens of film and TV projects, maintaining a versatile presence across romantic, dramatic, and religious-themed works.

Selected Works

• 'Usfur lahu Anyab (A Sparrow with Fangs)
• Qissat al-Hayy al-Gharbi (Story of the Western Quarter)
• Al-Zawaj 'ala al-Tariqa al-Haditha (Marriage the Modern Way)
• Fi Baytina Rajul (A Man in Our House)
• Souq al-Silah (The Weapons Market)
• Dima' 'ala al-Nil (Blood on the Nile)
• Zuqaq al-Midaq (Midaq Alley)
• Al-Khataya (The Sins)
• Al-Imam al-Sha'rawi (TV series, 1997)
• Layali al-Helmiya (The Nights of al-Helmiya) — landmark Egyptian ensemble TV drama

Personal Life

• Marital Status: Married to Shams al-Baroudi
• Children: Omar Hassan Youssef