Mahmoud Ismail (1914–1983;
Arabic: محمود إسماعيل) was an Egyptian actor of stage and film, a
screenplay writer, and a
film director. Ismail worked on more than 40 film projects, including acting in some twenty five films and six television series.[1]
Biography
Ismail began his artistic career as a theater actor in the Egyptian National Theatre Troupe.[1] He was a
Sufi, and had lived in the Al-Hussein neighborhood of Cairo.[2]
As an actor in film he frequently worked with film directors
Ahmed Badrakhan,
Niazi Mostafa,
Hassan Hilmy [
ar], and
Hasan El-Saifi. He often played characters that had a criminal past or villians (such as thieves, thugs, and drug dealers).[3][4] 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.[5] Ismail was also a prolific screenplay writer.
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abقاسم, محمود (2017-01-01).
الوجه والقناع.. أشرار السينما المصرية [The Face and the Mask.. The Villains of Egyptian Cinema] (in Arabic). وكالة الصحافة العربية. p. 1935.
Mahmoud Ismail (1914–1983;
Arabic: محمود إسماعيل) was an Egyptian actor of stage and film, a
screenplay writer, and a
film director. Ismail worked on more than 40 film projects, including acting in some twenty five films and six television series.[1]
Biography
Ismail began his artistic career as a theater actor in the Egyptian National Theatre Troupe.[1] He was a
Sufi, and had lived in the Al-Hussein neighborhood of Cairo.[2]
As an actor in film he frequently worked with film directors
Ahmed Badrakhan,
Niazi Mostafa,
Hassan Hilmy [
ar], and
Hasan El-Saifi. He often played characters that had a criminal past or villians (such as thieves, thugs, and drug dealers).[3][4] 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.[5] Ismail was also a prolific screenplay writer.
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abقاسم, محمود (2017-01-01).
الوجه والقناع.. أشرار السينما المصرية [The Face and the Mask.. The Villains of Egyptian Cinema] (in Arabic). وكالة الصحافة العربية. p. 1935.