Birthday: December 8th, 1896 Date of Death: May 27th, 1972 Place of Birth: Egypt
Egyptian director, screenwriter, film editor, and makeup artist born on 8 December 1896. He started as an actor during WWI then travelled to Germany where her worked as an assistant director and got married to a German woman and had one daughter, Diana. He was appointed the first Dean of the High Cinema Institute in Giza in 1959.