Mahmoud Ismail
Mahmoud Ismail (1914–1983) 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.
Mahmoud Ismail
- Name
- Mahmoud Ismail
- Born
- 18 March 1914
- Birthplace
- Kingdom of Egypt
- Died
- 27 January 1983
- Place of death
- Egypt
- Occupation
- Actor, film director, screenplay writer
- Languages
- Arabic · Egyptian Arabic
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Mahmoud Ismail (1914–1983) 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.
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Mahmoud Ismail (1914–1983) was an actor, film director and screenwriter, of Egyptian nationality. Languages used include Arabic and Egyptian Arabic.
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• Name — Mahmoud Ismail • Native Name — محمود إسماعيل • Born — 18 March 1914 • Birthplace — Kingdom of Egypt • Died — 27 January 1983 • Place of death — Egypt • Occupation — Actor, film director, screenplay writer
Biography
Biography
Ismail began his artistic career as a theater actor in the Egyptian National Theatre Troupe. He was a Sufi, and had lived in the Al-Hussein neighborhood of Cairo. As an actor in film he frequently worked with film directors Ahmed Badrakhan, Niazi Mostafa, Hassan Hilmy, and Hasan El-Saifi. 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.
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Mahmoud Ismail is recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as actor, film director and screenwriter.
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Life and career
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1914
Mahmoud Ismail was born on 18 March 1914.
1983
Mahmoud Ismail died on 27 January 1983.
As screenwriter
• The Florist (film) (1959) • The Girl from the Neighborhood (1964), directed by Hasan El-Saifi
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- 1.في ذكرى وفاة محمود إسماعيل. سلطان عاشق سمارة الذي هدده الجمهور بالقتل. الأسبوع (ElAosboa.com).
- 2.Today's News Information Center. محمود إسماعيل. فنان متصوف هدده الجمهور بالضرب. بوابة اخبار اليوم (Akhbarelyom.com). 2021-03-18.
- 3.أمين, هبة. في ذكرى ميلاده. محمود إسماعيل تاجر مخدرات بالسينما ومتصوف في الواقع. الوطن (el Watan News). 2021-03-18.
- 4.محمود إسماعيل - ﺗﻤﺜﻴﻞ فيلموجرافيا، صور، فيديو. elCinema.com.
- 5.فيلم - على مسرح الحياة - 1942 طاقم العمل، فيديو، الإعلان، صور، النقد الفني، مواعيد العرض. ElCinema.com.
- 6.فيلم - عايدة - 1942 طاقم العمل، فيديو، الإعلان، صور، النقد الفني، مواعيد العرض.
- 7.Aida. ElCinema.com.
- 8.فيلم - من فات قديمه - 1943 طاقم العمل، فيديو، الإعلان، صور، النقد الفني، مواعيد العرض. ElCinema.com.
- 9.فيلم - من الجاني - 1944 طاقم العمل، فيديو، الإعلان، صور، النقد الفني، مواعيد العرض.
- 10.Armes, Roy. Dictionary of African Filmmakers. Indiana University Press. 27, 158–159. 2008-07-11. 978-0-253-35116-6.
- 11.فيلم - فتنة - 1948 طاقم العمل، فيديو، الإعلان، صور، النقد الفني، مواعيد العرض.
- 12.فيلم - أوعى المحفظة - 1949 طاقم العمل، فيديو، الإعلان، صور، النقد الفني، مواعيد العرض.
- 13.Samarah. Kinorium.
- 14.قاسم, محمود. الوجه والقناع. أشرار السينما المصرية. وكالة الصحافة العربية. 1935. 2017-01-01.
- 15.فيلم - بياعة الورد - 1959 طاقم العمل، فيديو، الإعلان، صور، النقد الفني، مواعيد العرض.
- 16.Movie - Bnt alhatuh (1964). ElCinema.com.
- 17.فيلم - شاطئ الحظ - 1983 طاقم العمل، فيديو، الإعلان، صور، النقد الفني، مواعيد العرض. ElCinema.com.
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