Biography

An Egyptian actor, born on June 16, 1910, began his artistic career with the Ali Al-Kassar theater troupe and then moved to the cinema, which has a balance of 53 works. He started them with the film (The Gendarmerie) in 1936 and ended his career with the film (Love Beach) in 1961, and it was his major breakthrough. In the movie (Nour al-Din and the Three Sailors) in 1944, where his name was equal to the font size in the film sequences next to the name of the artist Ismail Yassin, after the names Ali Al-Kassar, Ibrahim Hammouda and Laila Fawzi, while the artist Zozo came after his name in a smaller font. Nabil and the artist Mahmoud El Meligy, and relied in his comedy on his physical body composition and his sarcastic "eveihat". Despite the variety of his artistic works, until his death he remained a fish seller in his private fish shop in the Strand Building in Bab Al-Luq, next to the two schools of Al-Dawaween Preparatory School for Boys, located on Nubar Pasha Street.