Youssef Wahbi
Leila Mourad with Youssef Wahbi in Habib El-Rouh in 1949
Born	Youssef Wahby July 14, 1898(1898-07-14) Sohag, Egypt
Died	October 17, 1982 (aged 84) Cairo, Egypt
Occupation	Actor Director Theater
Years active	1932–1978

Youssef Wahbi (Arabic: يوسف وهبي‎) (July 14, 1898 – October 17, 1982) was an Egyptian actor and film director, a leading star of the 1930s and '40s and a prominent stage actor for four decades. He was born to a high state official in Egypt but renounced his family's wealth and traveled to Rome 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 and with a fractured pelvis, survived by his wife.

[edit] Career

Youssef Wahbi was and still is one of the greatest Actor and Director of the Cinema of Egypt of all time. He started in the Golden Age of the Egyptian Cinema from 1932 till he died in Cairo, Egypt 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, French, Italian along with his native Arabic tongue. He did many roles that were different and unusual to both Egyptian film and plays. He once played the Devil and he later on wanted to play Muhammad but the media and the Al-Azhar University opposed to the idea and he was forbidden to do it. ^[1]

He is the most respected and loved artist of all time in the Cinema of Egypt and several French and English companies tried to save his movies by republishing them again.

[edit] 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

[edit] References

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"Youssef Wahby Dead at 82; Dean of the Egyptian Stage", The New York Times, October 18, 1982.

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