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He was best known for his portrayal of Inspector Tahar alongside his shorter sidekick Yahia Ben Mabrouk, in the Adventures of Inspector Tahar film comedy series in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Biography

Abderrahmane began as a technical operator and

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. Before embarking on the adventures of Inspector Tahar, he appeared in the theatre with Allel El Mouhib, who was his drama teacher. Abderrahmane played the monk in the play ''Montserrat'' by

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. He was a parish priest in ''Fusils de la mère Carare''. His social life, his childhood, his nature, and his deepest feelings were related to the drama but the performance was seen as comical overall. In 1967 he starred as Inspector Taher in the film ''L'Inspecteur mène l'enquête'', directed by

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which spawned several sequels, including '' Les Vacances de l'inspecteur Tahar'' (1973) and '' L'inspecteur marque le but'' (1977). He was preparing to shoot ''Le cadavre du domaine'' when he died on October 5, 1981 in

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Filmography

Hadj Abderrahmane et Yahia Benmabrouk en 1974

* L'Inspecteur mène l'enquête - 1967 Moustapha Badie * La Souris - 1968 * La Poursuite - 1968 * - 1973 *

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- 1977 * The cat - 1978

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Abderrahmane, Hadj Algerian male stage actors 1941 births 1981 deaths People from Algiers 20th-century Algerian male actors Algerian male film actors