Youssef wahbi biography meaning

          Originally a theatre actor, Wahbi was known for his serious tone of voice and heavy theatrical presence.

          Youssef Wahbi is one of the most prominent Arab theatre actors of all times..

          Youssef Wahbi

          Egyptian film director and actor

          Youssef Wahbi

          Born

          Youssef Abdullah Wahby Qotb


          (1898-07-14)14 July 1898

          Fayoum, Egypt

          Died17 October 1982(1982-10-17) (aged 84)

          Cairo, Egypt

          NationalityEgyptian
          OccupationActor • director • producer
          Years active1932–1978

          Youssef Abdallah Wahbi Qotb (Arabic: يوسف عبد الله هديب وهبي قطب) (14 July 1898 – 17 October 1982) was an Egyptian stage, film actor and director, a leading star of the 1930s and 1940s and one of the most prominent Egyptian stage actors of all time, who also served on the jury of the Cannes Film Festival in 1946.

          He was born to a high state official in Egypt but renounced his family's wealth and traveled to Rome in the 1919 to study theatre, married with Elena Lunda. Besides his stage work, he acted in around 50 films in Egyptian cinema, starting with Awlad al-Zawat (Sons of Aristocrats, 1932) to "Iskanderiya...

          Egyptian film director and actor (–).

        1. The Turkish writer Wedad Orfi, who initiated the idea, approached the Egyptian director and actor Youssef Wahbi to play the role of the.
        2. Youssef Wahbi is one of the most prominent Arab theatre actors of all times.
        3. Wahbi school, a school of though in Ibadi Islam; Wahbi nukkar, branch of Wahbi school.
        4. Theater titan Youssef Wahbi plays the patriarch of a Jewish family that reluctantly leaves Egypt during World War II in fear of a possible Nazi.
        5. lih?" (Alexandria... Why?, 1978).

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