Youssef Wahbi (July 14, 1898 – October 17, 1982) was an Egypt

Egypt

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ian stage and film actor

Actor

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 and director

Film director

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, a leading star of the 1930s and '40s and one of the most prominent Arab stage actors of any era. He was born to a high state official in Egypt but renounced his family's wealth and traveled to Rome

Rome

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 in the 1920s to study theatre. Besides his stage work, he acted in about 50 films, starting with Awlad al-Zawat (Sons of Aristocrats; 1932) to "Iskanderiya... lih?" (Alexandria... Why?, 1978). He died, sick with arthritis

Arthritis

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 and with a fractured pelvis, survived by his wife.

Career

Youssef Wahbi was and still is one of the greatest Actor and Director of the Cinema of Egypt

Cinema of Egypt

The cinema of Egypt refers to the flourishing Egyptian Arabic-language film industry based in Cairo, the capital of Egypt. Since 1976, Cairo has held the annual Cairo International Film Festival, which has been accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations. There is also...

 of all time. He started in the Golden Age

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 of the Egyptian Cinema from 1932 till he died in Cairo

Cairo

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, Egypt

Egypt

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 at the age of 84 on 1982. Even though he comes from a very rich family but he concentrated all his career and life as a dedication to the Film Industry.

Mr. Youssef Wahby have also several plays where he translated to many languages due to his fluency in English

English language

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, French

French language

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, Italian

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 along with his native Arabic tongue. He did many roles that were different and unusual to both Egypt

Egypt

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ian film and plays. He once played the Devil

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 and he later on wanted to play Muhammad

Muhammad

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 but the media and the Al-Azhar University

Al-Azhar University

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 opposed to the idea and he was forbidden to do it.

He is the most respected and loved artist of all time in the Cinema of Egypt

Cinema of Egypt

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 and several French and English companies tried to save his movies by republishing them again.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	International English Name(s)
1932	Awlad el zawat	Actor	aka the Spoiled Children or Sons of Aristocrats
1935	Al Defaa	Actor and director	aka The defense
1937	El Magid el khalid	Actor	aka Eternal Glory
1938	Saet el tanfiz	Actor	aka The Hour of Fate
1940	Leila momtera	Actor	aka Stormy night
	Ghazal al-banat	Actor (as himself)	aka The Flirtation of Girls
1941	Leila, bint el rif	actor	aka Leila, the school girl
	Areess min Istambul	Actor	aka A Suitor from Istanbul
1945	Safeer Gohannam	Actor	aka The Ambassador of Hell
1955	Hayat ou maut	Actor	aka Life or Death