Arieh Elias ( he, אריה אליאס. 1 April 1921 – 7 May 2015) was an Israeli actor.
Biography
Arieh Elias was born in
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...
. In 1941, he was the first Jew to be accepted to the drama faculty of Baghdad's Academy of Fine Arts. Elias
immigrated
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to
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...
in 1947. He joined the
Palmach and fought in the War of Independence. At first he had trouble finding work as an actor due to his pronounced Arabic accent, but his popularity grew after playing the lead in the Israeli film ''HaYeled Me'ever LaRechov'' (The Boy Across The Street) in 1965.
Acting and film career
In the early 1960s, he directed the theater troupe of the
Frank Sinatra Center in
Nazareth, staging Jean d'Arc, Nasser Aladdin and Majnun Night for El-Hadit Theater.
Elias appeared in more than thirty films from 1954 to 2006. In 2013, he won a lifetime achievement award from the Israeli Artists’ Association.
Beloved actor Arieh Elias dies at 94
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Selected filmography
See also
*Theater of Israel
The roots of the culture of Israel developed long before modern Israel's Declaration of Independence (Israel), independence in 1948, and traces back to ancient Israel ( 1000 BCE). It reflects Jewish culture, Jewish history in the Jewish diaspora, ...
* Cinema of Israel
* History of the Jews in Iraq
References
External links
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1921 births
2015 deaths
Artists from Baghdad
Israeli male film actors
Israeli male television actors
Israeli male stage actors
Iraqi emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
Israeli people of Iraqi-Jewish descent
Jewish Israeli male actors
Iraqi Jews
20th-century Israeli male actors
21st-century Israeli male actors