Tewfik Saleh ( ar, توفيق صالح) was an Egyptian film director and writer. His name has also been written as Tawfik Saleh and Tewfiq Salah.

Biography

Saleh was born on 27 October 1926, in

Alexandria Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria ...

. Although his father was against his interest in movies, he still considered movies to be his major interest. In 1949, he graduated from Victoria College of Alexandria. He died on 18 August 2013 in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

Career

His first film was ''Fools' Alley'' (1955), co-written by

Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha ( arz, نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز ابراهيم احمد الباشا, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. ...

, the Egyptian Nobel laureate in Literature. Saleh's other movies include ''

Struggle of the Heroes Struggle of the Heroes (aliases: Clash of the Heroes translit: ''Sira’ Al-Abtal'' Egyptian Arabic: صراع الأبطال) is a 1962 Egyptian film directed by Tewfik Saleh. It is listed in the Top 100 films in the Egyptian cinema of the 20th c ...

'' (''Sirâ’el abtâl'') (1962) and ''The Rebels'' (''el Moutamarridoun'') (1968) among others.

Selected filmography

* ''

'' (1962) * ''

Sayed al-Bolti ''Sayed al-Bolti'' ( ar, السيد البلطي) is an Egyptian film released in 1969, directed and co-written by Tewfik Saleh featuring a screenplay and dialogue by Saleh Morsi based on his novel ''زقاق السيد البلطي'' (“Sayed ...

'' (1969) * ''

The Dupes ''The Dupes'' ( ar, المخدوعون, 'al-makhdūʿūn') is a 1973 Syrian drama film directed by Tewfik Saleh and starring Mohamed Kheir-Halouani, Abderrahman Alrahy, Bassan Lotfi, Saleh Kholoki and Thanaa Debsi. Based on Ghassan Kanafani's 1 ...

'' (1973) * ''

Al-ayyam al-tawila ''Al-ayyam al-tawila'' ( ar, الأيام الطويلة, al-ʾAyyām aṭ-Ṭawwīla, The Long Days) is a 1980 6-hour long biographical account of Saddam Hussein's attempted assassination of Abd al-Karim Qasim in 1959, although some sources also ...

'' (1980)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Saleh, Tewfik University of Paris alumni People from Alexandria Egyptian film directors 1926 births 2013 deaths