Biography

An Egyptian actor and monologist. He did not appear as a man except once in the movie So'ad the Gypsy (1928) and since that date he has been fascinated by female roles with funny looks, and the first time was in 1933 in the movie The Love Store. After four years he spent in the casinos and theaters of Imad Al-Din, he was again assigned the role of the wife in Wife No. 2 with Mary Mounib. He did not achieve success as he achieved after that in the role of Miss Jamalat Kofta in The Unmarried Mother (1950). His last roles was in the movie Khadra and the Southern Sinbad (1951).