Mahmoud Ismail (1914–1983; ) was an Egyptian actor of stage and film, a screenplay writer, and a

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

. Ismail worked on more than 40 film projects, including acting in some twenty five films and six television series.

Biography

Ismail began his artistic career as a theater actor in the Egyptian National Theatre Troupe. He was a

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, 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, , and

Hasan El-Saifi Hasan El-Saifi (; 1927–2005) was an Egyptian film director, film producer, and screenplay writer. He worked on nearly 150 Egyptian films. He has various name spellings in English due to transliteration, most commonly Hassan el-Saifi, Hassan El- ...

. He often played characters that had a criminal past or villians (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.

Filmography

As actor

As director

As screenwriter

* ' (1959) () * ' (1964) (), directed by Hasan El-Saifi

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ismail, Mahmoud 1914 births 1983 deaths Egyptian film directors Egyptian screenwriters Egyptian male actors 20th-century Egyptian people Egyptian Sufis People from Cairo