Gamal Ismail

Acting

Gamal Ismail

Born 1932-01-08 · Cairo, Egypt

Gamal El Din Ismail Hussein was born in Cairo. He earned a degree in history from the Faculty of Arts of Ain Shams University in 1957, and a bachelor's degree from the Institute of Theatrical Arts of Cairo in 1956. He started working as a theater supervisor in the city of Alexandria in 1958. He then directed plays made by university and public companies acting troupes. He was first recognized when he played a role in the play “Sheia' Fi Sadry” (Something Inside Me), after which he appeared frequently in many successful plays, like “Sayedaty el Gameela” (My Fair Lady). In television, Gamal Ismail worked in many shows that were considered landmarks of their periods, like “Ze'ab El Gabal” (Wolves of the Mountain) and “Layaly El Helmeya” (Nights of Helmeya). His last appearances were in the TV series “Al Qasirat” (The Minors) and “Khalaf Allah”. He died in his house in 2013 after suffering a heart attack.

Acting credits

Mafia poster
6.9

After his expulsion from the Military Academy, Hussain gets involved in mafia crimes abroad. Upon being deported to an Egyptian prison, and in order to give him a second chance to live a well meaning life, the Egyptian Intelligence Agency assign him with a secret mission. Hussain reluctantly accepts extensive bio-psychological training with a unique patriotic team who revive his love for his country.

Mafia

2002

Fawazia The Bourgeoisie poster
7.5

The film focuses on the relationship between people with different political views, through the residents of one local region, highlighting some important issues such as ignorance, poverty, and corruption, which leads to the adoption of misconceptions.

Fawazia The Bourgeoisie

1985

Ramadan Mabrouk Abou El Allamen Hamouda poster
6.3

Professor Ramadan is a feared and well respected teacher in a village, forced to take a job in the city teaching at a private school. He soon realizes that most of his students are infatuated with a famous singer whom he tries to ban all mention of within the school, only to fall in love with her himself.

Ramadan Mabrouk Abou El Allamen Hamouda

2008

El Zalem Wel Mazloom poster
7.3

A young man working in Alexandria marries his beautiful sweetheart, which is desired by a senior official in the Socialist Union uses his influence to get the husband unjustly imprisoned and sentenced to 25 years. And then comes out to avenge those who imprisoned him.

El Zalem Wel Mazloom

1989

Italia's War poster
6.8

Yaseen is a lawyer who works for senior attorney, Kamaal. When he discovers that Kamal is involved in an illegal business with a tycoon, he gets publicly disbarred and loses his job. His fiance gets abducted to Italy when he tries to redeem himself, so he relentlessly forms a plan to set things right.

Italia's War

2005

Playing with Giants poster
7.0

When Hassan Bahlal, a young unemployed man, calls the National Security Agency to report a fire that is to break out in a factory the next day, a new chapter in Hassan's life begins as he tells the officer he has foreseen the incident in a dream.

Playing with Giants

1991

Eldenyaa Ma2loobaa poster
NR

Director: Adel Sadeq (Director) Writer: Ahmed El Ebiary (Writer) Cast: Nabila El Sayed Farouk El Feshawi Othman Abdelmonem Nahed Ismail Amin Elheneidy Gamal Ismail

Eldenyaa Ma2loobaa

1981

The Fair poster
4.6

The child (Barakat) from his mother gets lost in the crowd of the birth, to be kidnapped by the seller (Ali al-Araj) and taken to his home and called (Ibrahim), to grow up in an environment of all criminality, and involved working with a smuggling gang, and travel with them to Greece to carry out an operation, to change his life .

The Fair

1989

Kaddabeen Al-Zaffa poster
NR

Kamal is transferred to Upper Egypt when he refuses to cover up his manager's embezzlement. His engagement to Karima is put on the line when Zaky returns to the neighborhood. The now-wealthy Zaky seeks revenge on those who wronged him and seduces Kamal's fiancée, Karima.

Kaddabeen Al-Zaffa

1986

The Law Doesn't Know Aisha poster
NR

Aisha, who sold her share in the house to save her husband Fahmy from going to prison after being accused of embezzlement, so that Fahmy marries a rich woman in order to grow his business and lives a double life, so what will Aisha do ?

The Law Doesn't Know Aisha

1987

The Market poster
NR

Abdo leaves his village and goes to Cairo to work in the vegetable market. He meets Aziza, and marries her. Shams controls the vegetable market and monopolizes the prices. He admires Abdo and asks him to work with him. He agrees . Safiya, Shams's wife, admires Abdou, and tries to seduce him, but he repulses her. She claims that he tried to rape her, so Shams and his men take revenge and attempt to attack Aziza, but she is able to escape after a bitter struggle with the help of Abdou's friends. Then the struggle for market leadership turned between Abdo and Shams.

The Market

1987

The Mamluks poster
10.0

After suffering Egyptians from the oppression of the Mamluks and despotism clump the people and organize popular resistance to eliminate them and get rid of the ruling Circassians and the commander of his bodyguards Aybak, joins Alhabiban Ahmad and Qamar resistance despite suffering colors they receive, designed Ahmed to avenge the death of his mother on their hands, achieved guerrilla dream he is condemned the country's young people from Egyptians are free.

The Mamluks

1965

Tek Tek Bom poster
3.1

The film deals with some issues of concern to the Egyptian citizen and passes the events in the comic. It provides a personal representative Mohamed Saad (Tika) who lives in the popular and has a shop selling toys and with the Egyptian revolution that tries to aggregate the region's youth to the composition of the popular committee in an attempt to deal with thugs.

Tek Tek Bom

2011

Date Wine poster
6.8

Set in a mythical small Upper-Egyptian village where people live off planting dates and making of Date Wine, a stranger arrives and calls on people to travel to the abroad for job opportunities, all of the village's grown-up men leave, except for the disabled grandfather and his grandson Ahmed, upon which trouble begins to spread in the village in the absence of men along with his lover Salma. Exploring themes of Rebellion, Desire, Masculinity, Patriarchy, Spirituality and the Ancient Egyptian Mystique.

Date Wine

1999

We Are the Bus People poster
8.0

Adel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station after an altercation with a bus conductor. They are mistakenly arrested with a group of suspected terrorists and taken to a maximum security jail.

We Are the Bus People

1979

We Men Are Good poster
NR

Hamdy falls in love with Faten whom he tries to approach her by claiming that he lost his eyesight. Faten feels sorry for him and tries to help him in his crisis by taking him to her uncle, the ophthalmologist, so he begins to stall her.

We Men Are Good

1971

Everybody Wants Love poster
3.0

When Ahmed goes to visit his friend Abdel Salam in Fayoum, he meets Laila and falls for her. Abdel Salam tells Ahmed to stay away from her as she lives with her cousin Masoud who wants to marry her, despite the fact that he is married.

Everybody Wants Love

1975

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

الدبور

1964

The Woman Who Defeated the Devil poster
NR

Shafiqa is a maid and everyone treats her very harshly, she falls in love with the Mahmoud who loves an actress. She agrees with Adham to give him her soul; to be his king after ten years in exchange for giving her wealth and beauty,

The Woman Who Defeated the Devil

1973

The Three Wise Men poster
8.0

(Ameen) The merchant who sees many nightmares in his dream about a young man who accepts him to kill him, which causes him to feel fear for what he owns, and goes to seek advice from a psychiatrist, and one day Ameen is surprised by the young man who always appears in all his nightmares as he applies to a job with him, and discovers Amine that this young man loves (Samia) Amin's daughter, which causes him to address this relationship, refusing to associate with her.

The Three Wise Men

1965

يا رب توبة poster
NR

A Basha is furious when he learns that his son Zaki had an affair with his cousin Hosnia, he also knows that she's pregnant. He makes her marry Ibrahim, one of the peasants working in his land, who rejoices at first but after the sixth month of his marriage, he finds Hosnia giving birth to a child.

يا رب توبة

1975

Al-Usta Al-Modeer poster
NR

The family of (Hussein) the senior employee suffers from financial problems that make him unable to meet the needs of his family. One of the wealthy families applies to marry their son (Medhat) from their daughter (Mervat), so that the father falls into a financial dilemma, which drives him to pursue the profession of "discussion", in order to He can meet the needs of his family, which causes many problems

Al-Usta Al-Modeer

1988

Sayedaty El Gameela poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Sayedaty El Gameela

1969

The Devil's Island poster
5.7

Shawaf delivers his neighbor Fatima an illustrative map of the ship sunken at the Devil Island in Hurghada, hidden by gold boxes, accompanied by Baybars to finance the trip, and agree to Jalal teach them to dive, and recognizes the task of Fatima, and succeeded in the extraction of some gold bars, and here shows the Zoghbi gang and events escalate.

The Devil's Island

1990