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Date and place of birth:
29/04/1894
Date and place of death:
22/12/1982
Years active:*
1937 - 1963
* According to Dhliz film database
Films (12)
Gallery (70)
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Trivia (8)
Of a father of Syrian origins, and an Egyptian mother of Circassian origins.
He returned from France in 1929.
He worked to establish the first acting institute in Egypt in 1930, which he later reopened, and many great artists graduated from it.
He founded the National Theater Troupe in 1935.
He also founded the school theater and the modern theater.
The first to direct an operetta for folk arts.
He worked in Kuwait for a period, and founded the first acting institute there.
He published more than one book on the art of acting.
Gallery (70)
Posters (1)
Through the years
Ibnaty
(1944)
Moghamarat 3antar Wa 3abla
(1948)
Khalid Ibn Al-Walid
(1958)
Baheya
(1960)
Al-Naser Sala7 Al-Din
(1963)
Awards (1)
Excellence Award in theater directing.