Adel Kasseb

Adel Kasseb

Egyptian Actor

 

Personal Information

Full Name: Adel Abdel Hamid Kasseb

 

Date of Birth: April 21, 1918

 

Place of Birth: Fum El Khalig, Old Cairo, Egypt

 

Date of Death: September 13, 1978 (aged 60)

 

Nationality: Egyptian

 

Occupation: Actor, TV actor

 

Language: Arabic, Egyptian dialect

 

Years Active: 1935 - 1978

 

Biography

Born in Fum El Khalig, Old Cairo, Egypt, in 1918 to a wealthy family. His father died when he was ten years old.

 

Interested in the arts since childhood and joined the school theater team, regularly attending theatrical performances.

 

Graduated from the School of Arts and Crafts (now Applied Arts), worked as a teacher in the engineering faculty workshops for 12 years, supervising sports activities, being a distinguished athlete and weightlifting champion.

 

Obtained a Bachelor of Dramatic Arts from the Higher Institute of Acting in 1949 (second graduating class).

 

Left engineering and worked as a drama teacher at the Ministry of Education, pioneering theatrical education.

 

Joined the Modern Theatre Troupe in 1950, then Ismail Yassin’s troupe in 1954, and the Rihani troupe in 1957, where he stayed for 10 years.

 

Participated in famous plays such as “Except Five”, “Hassan, Marcus, and Cohen”.

 

Starred in about 200 films over 30 years, playing roles ranging from pasha, butcher, strict father, kind husband, coachman, to khedive.

 

When Egyptian TV began in 1960, he acted in series like “The Whirlpool”, “The Unknown”, “The Good Ten”.

 

His last TV work was the series “The Flying Boy’s Dreams” with Adel Imam.

 

Awarded the State Appreciation Award by President Sadat.

 

Personal Life

Married at age 29 to Mrs. Amal, with four children:

 

Kasseb: Fine Arts graduate

 

Mamdouh: Commerce graduate, painter, and actor

 

Amina: Fine Arts graduate

 

Ehab: Media graduate

 

Death

Passed away at age 60 due to a heart attack after returning from rehearsals for a new work, leaving a distinct mark in Egyptian arts.

 

Notable Works

Films

1949: Nadia

 

1951: Love’s Flower, Your Day Comes, The Circus Girl, Honor is Expensive, The Seven Afandi

 

1952: Down with Colonialism, Mustafa Kamel, Juha’s Nail, The Melody of Eternity, Master Hassan

 

1953: Miss Nashala, Conspiracy, Gold, Between Two Hearts, Bilal the Prophet’s Muezzin, Deprivation, Witness, People

 

1954: Promise, Date with Happiness, Desert Devil, Life or Death, An American from Tanta, Life’s Love, Wife’s Confession

 

1955: Dawn, Brides on Auction, My Uncle Works, Love and Tears, Crime of Love, Days and Nights, God is With Us

 

1956: I Said Goodbye to Your Love, Love Appointment, From the Killer, Sleepless Eyes, The Wife with Power, Devils of the Air, Delilah, Love and Execution, Try Your Luck, Where is My Life, The Widow of the Breeze, Our Green Land

 

1957: End of Love, I Will Never Cry, Millionaire’s Love, My Heart’s Reply, Port Said, Me and My Heart, The Seductive Saleswomen, The Dead End, Swimming in Fire

 

1958: I Have No One but You, Sultan, Love from Fire, Jamila, Daughter of the Desert, Virgin Wife, Ismail Yassin in Damascus

 

1959: Samara’s Demon, The Secret of the Disappearing Cap, Prison of Virgins

 

1960: Money and Women, Meeting at Sunset, Women’s Affairs, Teenage Girls, Father of the Night

 

1961: Why Do I Live?, Storm of Love, Lady of the Girls, Life and Hope, Zizit, Love and Suffering, Ambassador Aziza, Love Like That

 

1962: Memoirs of a Schoolgirl, Judge of Love, The Thief and the Dogs

 

1963: Forbidden Story, Zizi’s Family, Naughty Girls, Alley of the Mill, Mother of the Bride, Groom Arrives Tomorrow

 

1964: The Migration of the Prophet, If I Were a Man, The Giant

 

1965: Private Tutor, Calm Before the Storm, Sultan’s Stick

 

1966: Too Young to Love, Something in My Life, Men’s Mischief, Hose, Summer Vacation, Three Thieves

 

1967: Student Apartment, Beach of Fun

 

1968: Summer Strong Memory

 

1969: Nadia, Respectable Families, Girls’ Secrets

 

1970: We Don’t Plant Thorns, Struggle with Death, The Two Friends

 

1971: Love on the Agricultural Road, Youth in a Storm, A Delicious Trip, Adam and the Women

 

1972: Wolves on the Road, House of Sand, Housing Crisis

 

1973: Soul Lover, The Tricksters, Three Teenage Girls

 

1975: Melody in My Life, Forbidden on Wedding Night, Hereditary Madness, Nothing Matters, Who Do We Shoot?, A Question in Love, Karnak

 

1976: Taxi King, First Year of Love, Life is a Melody

 

1977: Carry Me and I Carry You

 

1978: The Girl Who Said No, Sons of the Righteous

 

TV Series

1963: Comedy Episodes

 

1964: City Story

 

1968: The Peasant

 

1969: Revenge

 

1970: Possible, Sorrows

 

1971: Sarhan’s Whistle

 

1973: Birth Certificate, The Whirlpool

 

1974: The Bars

 

1976: At Bab Zuweila

 

1977: The Unknown, The Storm

 

1978: The Flying Boy’s Dreams, Last Mischief, Wails in the Room of Sorrows, Strange World, When Do Tears Smile

 

Theater Plays

1935: The Judgment of Qaraqoush

 

1955: His Majesty

 

1956: Woman’s Corner, Thursday the Eleventh

 

1960: What Was in My Heart, I Wish I Hadn’t Married, Hassan, Marcus, and Cohen

 

1961: Someone Smarter Than You, Wait for Your Luck

 

1962: Live and Take Another, When the Old Man Pampered

 

1963: Except Five

 

1964: With Suspension of Execution

 

1970: A Year with Delicious Work

 

1974: Lolita

 

Radio Series

1959: The Marzouk Afandi Family

 

1961: Characters Searching for a Playwright

 

1969: Lost Love