Arieh Elias (; 1 April 1921 – 7 May 2015) was an Israeli actor.
Biography
Arieh Elias was born in
Baghdad
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. In 1941, he was the first Jew to be accepted to the drama faculty of Baghdad's Academy of Fine Arts. Elias
immigrated
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to
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine was a British Empire, British geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the Palestine (region), region of Palestine, and after 1922, under the terms of the League of Nations's Mandate for Palestine.
After ...
in 1947. He joined the
Palmach
The Palmach (Hebrew: , acronym for , ''Plugot Maḥatz'', "Strike Phalanges/Companies") was the elite combined strike forces and sayeret unit of the Haganah, the paramilitary organization of the Yishuv (Jewish community) during the period of th ...
and fought in the War of Independence. At first he had trouble finding work as an actor due to his pronounced Arabic accent, but his popularity grew after playing the lead in the Israeli film ''HaYeled Me'ever LaRechov'' (The Boy Across The Street) in 1965.
Acting and film career
In the early 1960s, he directed the theater troupe of the
Frank Sinatra Center in
Nazareth
Nazareth is the largest Cities in Israel, city in the Northern District (Israel), Northern District of Israel. In its population was . Known as "the Arab capital of Israel", Nazareth serves as a cultural, political, religious, economic and ...
, staging Jean d'Arc, Nasser Aladdin and Majnun Night for El-Hadit Theater.
Elias appeared in more than thirty films from 1954 to 2006. In 2013, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the
Israeli Artists’ Association.
Beloved actor Arieh Elias dies at 94
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Filmography
See also
*Theater of Israel
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*Cinema of Israel
Cinema of Israel () refers to film production in Israel since its founding in 1948. Most Israeli films are produced in Hebrew, but there are productions in other languages such as Arabic and English. Israel has been nominated for more Academ ...
*History of the Jews in Iraq
The history of the Jews in Iraq (, ', ; , ) is documented from the time of the Babylonian captivity . Iraqi Jews constitute one of the world's oldest and most historically significant Jewish communities.
The Jewish community in Mesopotamia, kn ...
References
External links
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1921 births
2015 deaths
Actors from Baghdad
Members of Aliyah Bet
Israeli male film actors
Israeli male television actors
Israeli male stage actors
Israeli people of Iraqi-Jewish descent
Israeli military personnel of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
Ophir Award winners
Iraqi emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
Iraqi Jews in Israel
Jewish Israeli male actors
Burials at Menucha Nechona Cemetery
20th-century Israeli male actors
21st-century Israeli male actors
20th-century Israeli Jews
21st-century Israeli Jews
20th-century Iraqi Jews
21st-century Iraqi Jews