Wahbī, Yūsuf

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Name (Latin)
Wahbī, Yūsuf
Name (Arabic)
وهبي، يوسف، 1898-1982
Date of birth
1898-07-17
Date of death
1982-10-17
Associated Language
ara
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 1564913
Wikidata: Q4165417
Library of congress: n 88151060
Sources of Information
  • مذكرات عميد المسرح العربي يوسف وهبي كما رواها بنفسه، 1991
  • Wikipedia, 13 March, 2016:(يوسف وهبي (17 يوليو 1898 - 17 أكتوبر 1982)، ممثل ومخرج مسرحي وسينمائي من مصر، يعتبر أحد الرواد في مجال السينما والمسرح العربي)
Wikipedia description:

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... lih?" (Alexandria... Why?, 1978).

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