Mahmoud Ismail (1914–1983; ) was an Egyptian actor of stage and film, a

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, and a

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

. Ismail worked on more than 40 film projects, including acting in some twenty five films and six television series.

Biography

Ismail began his artistic career as a theater actor in the Egyptian National Theatre Troupe. He was a

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, and had lived in the Al-Hussein neighborhood of Cairo. As an actor in film he frequently worked with film directors

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, , and

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. He often played characters that had a criminal past or villains (such as thieves, thugs, and drug dealers). Ismail disappeared from the film scene for a few years, then returned again to appear on screen intermittently in films and television miniseries’s in the late-1970s and early-1980s. Ismail was also a prolific screenplay writer.

Filmography

As actor

As director

As screenwriter

* ' (1959) () * ' (1964) (), directed by Hasan El-Saifi

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ismail, Mahmoud 1914 births 1983 deaths Egyptian film directors Egyptian screenwriters Egyptian male actors 20th-century Egyptian male actors Egyptian Sufis People from Cairo