Mohamed Shawqi

Acting

Mohamed Shawqi

Born 1915-01-06 · Cairo, Egypt

An Egyptian actor, born in the Bulaq Abu El-Ela neighborhood in Cairo in 1915, graduated from the Saidia School and worked after graduation as an employee in Assiut, but he liked to work more in the field of art, so he joined the theater of Munira al-Mahdia and sang with her in the play (Bride of the East) in 1937. As for About acting, Muhammad Shawqi started it after joining Ali Al-Kassar's band after a test he took and remained with it until its dissolution in 1946, after which he joined the teams of Shkoku and Najeeb Al-Rihani. In addition to his theatrical work, Mohamed Shawky presented to the cinema more than 250 films, the most famous of them are: (Love in the Dungeon, Sugar Hanim, Black Candles, The Crazy in Naim). Mohamed Shawky died in 1984 after suffering from hepatitis.

Acting credits

Alexandria… Why? poster
6.5

Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.

Alexandria… Why?

1979

El Ayeqa Wil Darreesa poster
NR

(Mustafa) tries to get close to (Nadia), despite the student (Samah)'s attachment to him. (Samah) claims that he assaulted her, and attempts are made to pressure (Mustafa) to marry her. (Karima), who controls the interests of the people, admires (Mustafa) and appoints him as an accountant. For her actions, she courts him and tries to separate him from (Nadia). (Mustafa) discovers the violations committed by (Karima) and seeks to report these violations to the police.

El Ayeqa Wil Darreesa

1985

Love and suffering poster
10.0

Wahid Safwat is a playwright known for his many female relationships. Wahid meets the rising singer Laila and flirts with her, but she rejects him, so he decides to ensnare her and hides his true identity from her, that he is a famous novelist. The events unfold in a framework of comedic situations.

Love and suffering

1961

The Bus Driver poster
7.7

A father loses his carpentry workshop after his son-in-law stops paying taxes regularly. His son Hassan, a bus driver, struggles hard to save his father’s workshop, while the daughters try to replace it with a new project inspired by the “Infitah” era.

The Bus Driver

1982

The Bus Driver poster
7.7

A father loses his carpentry workshop after his son-in-law stops paying taxes regularly. His son Hassan, a bus driver, struggles hard to save his father’s workshop, while the daughters try to replace it with a new project inspired by the “Infitah” era.

The Bus Driver

1982

المرأة شيطان poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

المرأة شيطان

1949

Housing crisis poster
5.0

afaf and fattouh are co-workers looking for apartment for each to settle in . Each gets his apartment by kind of a trick which results in many consequences .

Housing crisis

1972

The Thugs of El-Husseiniya poster
9.0

A son succeeds his father as a ruffian in the Al-Husayniyah area. As conflict arises between the young man and the current thug, who competes with him over the same girl, the thug plots to put the young man in prison for several years.

The Thugs of El-Husseiniya

1954

Hassan wa Morcos wa Cohen poster
8.1

No synopsis available yet.

Hassan wa Morcos wa Cohen

1960

Ismail Yassine in the Police poster
7.7

Ismail lives in a local neighborhood, next to his fiancée and her mother who objects to their relationship because of his work in the police.

Ismail Yassine in the Police

1956

Appointment with Satan poster
7.0

Ragab is a doctor struggling with his financial life, he meets Nabil and discovers that he is the devil himself. They have a deal to make him the best doctor ever.

Appointment with Satan

1955

The Thug poster
6.8

Haridy arrives at the vegetable market in search of a job opportunity, he works for Master Abu Zaid and after a while he separates and marries Hossnyia. Haridy forms an alliance against Abu Zaid, but he soon becomes more powerful and his condition turns to worse.

The Thug

1957

Three Stories poster
7.0

The film combines 3 separate stories .. The first story (Dunia Allah) to Naguib Mahfouz and starring Salah Mansour and Nahed Sharif .. Tell the story of a courier in a government service approached the age of the pension did not enjoy his life at all decides to embezzlement of employees salaries and travel to Alexandria with one of the girls on the street to enjoy several weeks He was convinced that he did not harm anyone because all the employees did not need a salary except for one employee who was burdened with social burdens.

Three Stories

1968

جرب حظك poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

جرب حظك

1956

Marriage for Half an Hour poster
5.7

Fatma had a crush on Dr. Hosny, a womanizer dentist she met, so she decided to convince him to hire her as his nurse. On the other side, Hosny is in the middle of a love story with Dalia, a Flower Shop owner who hates liars more than anything else.

Marriage for Half an Hour

1969

Karnak poster
6.8

In the 1960s, the lives of three college classmates, Ismail, Zainab, and Helmy, take a dark turn when the three of them are arrested and tortured as part of the repressive and violent practices that were employed by the General Intelligence Directorate back then.

Karnak

1975

Ismail Yassine in the Air Force poster
7.0

Ismail El Ghandoor works as a stuntman and a small time actor in movies. He falls in love with a young belly dancer, Soheir who dreams of being the wife of a pilot. Ismail dresses up in his brother Hussein’s clothes as a pilot in the force while his brother is away on his honeymoon. When Hussein returns the truth is revealed, and each of them goes back to his real job. Will Soheir accept the real Ismail or will she continue to pursue her dream of marrying a pilot?

Ismail Yassine in the Air Force

1959

Mansion of Longing poster
6.3

10 years after Fahmy died, Ahmed Abdel Gawad returned to his normal life. He falls for Zanouba who is in love with his son Yassin. As Zanouba marries Yassin, Kamal's idealism is compromised when Aida abandons him for a wealthy guy.

Mansion of Longing

1966

Rassif Nemra 5 poster
8.8

Sergeant Khamis, who works in the Coast Guard, succeeds in aborting a drug smuggling operation, so the smuggling gang tries to buy his integrity in order to make things easier for them, but he in turn refuses, so they resort to a plan to kill him in order to remove him from their path, but they fail and they kill his wife by mistake, and events escalate.

Rassif Nemra 5

1956

Miracle from heaven poster
8.0

A young employee prepares to travel to Alexandria to work as a singer in one of its clubs, but his friends take him to Ras El Bar, and in the summer resort he meets a young woman who made him stop traveling, as he caught a cold while trying to save her from drowning. She had pretended that she was about to drown, and a very fast love developed between them. And her uncle sees them.

Miracle from heaven

1956

Al-modeer Al-Fanni poster
8.0

After he gets fired from his job as a teacher, Hamouda works in a company, and soon discovers that the manager is doing illegal work. He's offered to take part in the fraud and scheme, he quickly learns the ropes and becomes wealthy.

Al-modeer Al-Fanni

1965

The Wedding Night poster
6.0

Two young men working in a barber shop. They meet two girls and decide to marry them. They try to get married until they get married, but they do two very painful things. They find out on the night of Dakhla and decide to escape. And work in the field of singing in order to be able to pay the back of the dowry. And then marry their loved ones and save them from the greed and tricks of their father's wife and relatives.

The Wedding Night

1950

Eve and the monkey poster
NR

Nadia is jealous of her husband in a satisfactory way, she discovers that he is in a relationship with a dancer and she falls into a psychological crisis that goes after her to a psychiatrist, finds her suffering from a double personality, exploits this medical analysis and recoils another personality and claims that she is related to another person, and in fact she relates to her previous fiancé and meets him and ignores her husband .

Eve and the monkey

1968

Akwa Min El Hub poster
10.0

A husband loses his arms and becomes unemployed, his wife becomes responsible for the house and neglects her husband. He starts learning to paint and meets a girl who encourages him to submit his paintings in an exhibition.

Akwa Min El Hub

1954