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Youssef Wahby

Actor / Film Director / Screenwriter | * 07/14/1898 († 84, 10/17/1982) | Sohag (Egypt)
Youssef Abdallah Wahbi Qotb (Arabic: يوسف عبد الله هديب وهبي قطب) (14 July 1902 – 17 October 1982) was an Egyptian stage, film actor and director, a leading star of the 1930s and 1940s and one of the most prominent Egyptian stage actors of all time, who also served on the jury of the Cannes Film Festival in 1946. He was born to a high state official in Egypt but renounced his family's wealth and traveled to Rome in the 1920s to study theatre. Besides his stage work, he acted in around 50 films in Egyptian cinema, starting with Awlad al-Zawat (Sons of Aristocrats, 1932) to "Iskanderiya... lih?" (Alexandria... Why?, 1978). ()
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Egyptian actor, director and author, began his education in the city of Fayoum traveled to Italy after the First World War, where he studied acting and studied at the hands of the Italian actor Cantoni, to return to Egypt and worked in Hassan Fayek’s Theater, and then founded his own theater and Ramses Film Production Company, and participated in the establishment of Nahas studios and took over the management of the Studio, In the cinema, he wrote and directed his film scenarios. He received many awards in Egypt and many honors such as the Grand Order of the Cisé from the King of Morocco. He received an honorary doctorate from the Academy of Arts. He married and did not have children.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Romance / Love | Comedies
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Movies with Youssef Wahby as Actor(24)

as Souril1979 Alexandria… Why?
1978 Les Miserables
as Omar Adham1975 The White Dress
as Tolba Marzouk1969 Miramar
as Hanan's Father1969 Big Love
as Abdel Kader El Nashashgy1960 Ishayat hub
as شحاته1960 مال ونساء
as Capital Doctor1954 Life or Death
1951 Amina
as Samir1945 Ambassador of Hell
as Gamal Hamdi1944 Passion and Revenge
as فتحي1941 Layla the Country Girl

Movies with Youssef Wahby as Crew(8)

Directing/Director1951 Children Of The Streets
Writing/Writer1951 Children Of The Streets
Directing/Director1945 Ambassador of Hell
Writing/Writer1945 Ambassador of Hell
Directing/Director1944 Passion and Revenge
Writing/Writer1944 Passion and Revenge
Writing/Writer1943 Dreams of the Youth
Writing/Writer1932 Sons of Aristocrats

Full Name: Youssef Wahby
Citizenship: Egypt
Born: Thursday, 07/14 1898 (July) in Sohag (Egypt)
Died: Sunday, 10/17 1982 (October) in Cairo (aged: 84)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: Arabic (AR), Egyptian Arabic
Other names for Youssef Wahby (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Youssef Wahbi"
"Yousef Wahbi"
"Yousef Wahby"
"يوسف وهبي"
"Юсуф Вахби"
Youssef Wahby frequently works together with these people:
Youssef Chahine (8x, Crew)
Farid Shawqi (6x, Actor)
Anwar Wagdi (6x, Actor)
Mahmoud el-Meliguy (5x, Actor)
Serag Mounir (5x, Actor)
Rushdy Abaza (4x, Actor)
Fakher Fakher (4x, Actor)
Ali El Zorkani (4x, Crew)
Kamal El Sheikh (4x, Crew)
Soad Hosny (4x, Actress)
Farid ElAtrash (4x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:919887, Added: 11/20/2018, Last updated: 02/28/2024