Ferdoos Abdel Hamid

Acting

Ferdoos Abdel Hamid

Born

1947-02-25 (79)

Place of birth

Alexandria, Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

Known for

El Helmeya Nights poster
8.2

A sweeping saga spanning Egyptian history from the era of King Farouk to the early 21st century, Al Helmeya Nights centres on the bitter rivalry between the Al-Badri and Ghanem families in Cairo's Helmeya neighbourhood. Driven by revenge, ambition, and shifting power, the series — written by Osama Anwar Okasha with over 300 actors across six seasons — is widely considered one of the greatest achievements in Arab television drama.

El Helmeya Nights

1987

Zezenia poster
6.0

Set in Alexandria during the 1940s, at the height of the city's cosmopolitan golden age, Zezenia follows Bishr — the son of an Egyptian father and Italian mother — as he navigates a fractured sense of identity torn between East and West. Against a backdrop of World War II, mixed nationalities, and a society on the brink of change, the series is a sweeping portrait of love, belonging, and the soul of a city.

Zezenia

1997

Nasl El Aghrab poster
6.0

After his release from prison, a conflict flares up when Assaf finds out that his relative Ghofran has married his ex-wife, Jaleela.

Nasl El Aghrab

2021

أدهم وزينات والثلاث بنات poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

أدهم وزينات والثلاث بنات

2003

Al Waseya poster
7.9

When Ebbo's father dies, he leaves behind a will that compels Ebbo to complete a list of tasks to be able to get his inheritance. Ebbo enlists his friend Semsem's help to complete the tasks.

Al Waseya

2018

Harb El Gebaly poster
7.0

In the bustling Al-Jamaliya district of Cairo, two powerful rival families — the Gebaly and the Gharbawy — clash over wealth, dominance, and deep-rooted grievances. At the centre is Harb, a strong yet good-hearted man navigating loyalty, love, and betrayal, as old scores, inheritance disputes, and criminal entanglements pull everyone around him into an escalating war for control.

Harb El Gebaly

2025

Film credits

1990s · 3 titles

1980s · 5 titles

The Street Player poster
7.3

Fares, a shoe factory worker, has only one passion in life: football. He lives a humble life in a chaotic neighborhood where he plays street football to increase his income. However, neither his marriage nor his job is stable enough. He goes through a lot of problems due to his lack of self-discipline with his divorced wife and his son.

The Street Player

1983

The Collar and the Bracelet poster
6.6

In 1933 in the village of Karnak in Luxor, sad lives with her husband Bakhit Bishari paraplegic and TB disease.

The Collar and the Bracelet

1986

A Bird on the Road poster
8.4

Faris works as a regional car driver, and he loves Esmat who works in a garment shop. Ismail is the personal driver to wealthy man Gad, he asks Faris to fill in for him and he meets Fawzia,Gad's wife who married him against her will, and soon he falls in love with her.

A Bird on the Road

1981

And the days go by poster
NR

Abdul Qader lives a quiet and peaceful life with his family. His daughter Madiha marries Adel, who travels to work in an Arab country. His son Shukri falls in love with Rawya, but he opposes the marriage and pressures him to marry his cousin. Rawya decides to take revenge on Shukri and his father, for the former's failure and the latter's opposition, by trapping the father in her net.

And the days go by

1980

Tali' al-Nakhl poster
NR

Muhammad is a simple peasant young man who lives in a village. He works as a palm tree picker. He does his work with ease and loves his beautiful neighbour. However, he suddenly falls prey to severe pain and goes alone. He discovers that he is infected with schistosomiasis. He is forced to travel to Cairo, and is detained at the Bilharz Institute as a severe case. There he meets the doctor (Amal), who tells him that if he wants to recover, he must undergo surgery that may cost him his life. The matter gets worse when a wealthy person returns from abroad and wants to marry his fiancée, so he is forced to undergo the operation.

Tali' al-Nakhl

1988

1970s · 4 titles

Les Misérables poster
3.0

Based on Victor Hugo's novel, a poor man is sent to prison after stealing a loaf of bread. He escapes and becomes rich, but this does not protect him from people's disdain as they know where he came from.

Les Misérables

1978

Whom Should We Shoot? poster
6.5

The film describes the political and economical corruption in 70s’ Egypt, through the relationship between a powerful man and his wife’s ex-fiance.

Whom Should We Shoot?

1975

El-Ganna Taht Qadmeha poster
NR

(Zainab) works in a factory to raise her daughter (Nemat) and son (Hussein), but she refuses to marry (Ayoub). The factory owner tries to trap Zainab, but she pushes him back. So Ayoub decides to burn the factory, rob and kill its owner, the crime succeeds, he changes his personality, and becomes rich, and (Zainab) is accused of the crime and imprisoned, (Hussein) grows up, and becomes a lawyer, while (Nemat) works as a tailor, and she believes that getting rich by any means is the solution. (Zainab) escapes from prison to meet her children, and searches for evidence of her innocence, which is a letter hidden by her brother (Ahmed).

El-Ganna Taht Qadmeha

1979

Hob Fauq Al-Burkan poster
NR

Ahmed and Nawal's half-brother (Hussein) steals Ahmed's money to spend on the dancer (Dusa). Nawal pawns jewelry with (Umm Jaber), the moneylender, in order to give (Hussein) the money. Ahmed goes to retrieve Nawal's jewelry, and at the same time, Hussein kills Umm Jaber. Ahmed runs away from the house in panic. Nima sees him leaving and thinks he is the killer. As she goes down to catch him, she falls and loses her sight. Ahmed feels guilty, so he marries her.

Hob Fauq Al-Burkan

1978

Series credits

El Helmeya Nights poster
8.2

A sweeping saga spanning Egyptian history from the era of King Farouk to the early 21st century, Al Helmeya Nights centres on the bitter rivalry between the Al-Badri and Ghanem families in Cairo's Helmeya neighbourhood. Driven by revenge, ambition, and shifting power, the series — written by Osama Anwar Okasha with over 300 actors across six seasons — is widely considered one of the greatest achievements in Arab television drama.

El Helmeya Nights

1987

Zezenia poster
6.0

Set in Alexandria during the 1940s, at the height of the city's cosmopolitan golden age, Zezenia follows Bishr — the son of an Egyptian father and Italian mother — as he navigates a fractured sense of identity torn between East and West. Against a backdrop of World War II, mixed nationalities, and a society on the brink of change, the series is a sweeping portrait of love, belonging, and the soul of a city.

Zezenia

1997

Nasl El Aghrab poster
6.0

After his release from prison, a conflict flares up when Assaf finds out that his relative Ghofran has married his ex-wife, Jaleela.

Nasl El Aghrab

2021

أدهم وزينات والثلاث بنات poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

أدهم وزينات والثلاث بنات

2003

Al Waseya poster
7.9

When Ebbo's father dies, he leaves behind a will that compels Ebbo to complete a list of tasks to be able to get his inheritance. Ebbo enlists his friend Semsem's help to complete the tasks.

Al Waseya

2018

Harb El Gebaly poster
7.0

In the bustling Al-Jamaliya district of Cairo, two powerful rival families — the Gebaly and the Gharbawy — clash over wealth, dominance, and deep-rooted grievances. At the centre is Harb, a strong yet good-hearted man navigating loyalty, love, and betrayal, as old scores, inheritance disputes, and criminal entanglements pull everyone around him into an escalating war for control.

Harb El Gebaly

2025

محمد رسول الله poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

محمد رسول الله

1980

النوّة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

النوّة

1991

Seyam Seyam poster
NR

Fasting is not all fasting, this is what the series explains through Professor Siam, who modifies every day a wrong behavior of his behaviors associated with fasting and complement to it as anom, from which we get to know the value of fasting and the divine wisdom of its imposition and determine its time.

Seyam Seyam

1980

أخو البنات poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

أخو البنات

1984

The Legend poster
7.9

The series revolves around a young law school graduate Nasser (Mohammed Ramadan) who lives in the Sabbatiyah area, seeking to join the judiciary. In conflicts with a major arms dealer

The Legend

2016

The sea said poster
1.0

Salem falls into the trap of greed when he finds a treasure in a well in the seabed, and soon his life changes and flees from his country, and soon he returns to the past to haunt him while everyone tries to reach him to obtain their right to the treasure.

The sea said

1982

The Foul Wind poster
NR

In Alexandria, a girl goes out to work in trade in order to provide for her siblings and afford their education, an endeavor that leaves her exposed to a lot of difficulties as she tries to keep the family together.

The Foul Wind

1991

Date with Destiny poster
6.3

Galal's life turns upside down as a result of an odd meeting with a random stranger, as he finds everything that will happen to him during the day written on his body, turning his days into a series of funny situations.

Date with Destiny

2022

A Husband's Diary poster
8.0

When Ra'ouf suffers from a series of marital problems, the situation escalates until his wife kicks him out. In order to find a solution, he turns to his friend Youssef.

A Husband's Diary

1990

Dad, You, & I in Dismay poster
7.0

After his appointment as general manager of financial and administrative affairs, Abd al-Baqi al-Jawhari (Hassan Abdin) discovers a lot of manipulation in connection with the project (Tohme) village that is supervised by the Bahrawi Governorate, and when he seeks to reveal what he knew, the project beneficiaries fabricate the charge of embezzlement of Abd al-Baqi, and he enters prison From here, his daughter Widad (Firdous Abdel Hamid) cooperates with Bashir Abu Al-Saad (Mahmoud Al-Jundi) to prove her father's innocence, but they discover that the game is bigger than they imagined.

Dad, You, & I in Dismay

1989

My Dear Children, Thank You poster
NR

After the father, Abdo, passes sixty, he retires from his job. He starts discovering new things about his four children, while his children realize that they've drifted away from their father, and that they'll always need him like he needs them.

My Dear Children, Thank You

1979

Al-Mashrabiya poster
NR

When a famous archaeologist goes to a working-class neighborhood in Cairo and tells its people that the area contains archaeological treasures, all the people there begin searching for the treasure with this scientist. As they dream of getting rich, their behavior and actions change, and many negatives appear.

Al-Mashrabiya

1978

Tragicomic poster
NR

The series deals with the life story of the great artist Naguib Rihani since childhood, and highlights the human and social aspects of his life, and the political life he lived, especially the revolution of 1919, the First and Second World Wars, the Constitution of 1923, and the English occupation of Egypt.

Tragicomic

2022

اللعبة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

اللعبة

1981

The White Flag poster
NR

According to a true story, a frantic struggle does not end between two parties in Alexandria, (Silver Maadawi), a wealthy and authoritarian merchant in the fish ring, and retired Ambassador Moufid Abu Al Ghar, where Silver Maadawi tries with all its influence to seize the archaeological palace owned by Dr. Moufid and reside In him after his retirement.

The White Flag

1988

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

عاصفة على بحر هادئ

1977

أم العروسة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

أم العروسة

1976

Mizo's Story poster
NR

Mo'ataz Abu Al-Ezz, famously known as Mizo, is a reckless playboy who inherited a fortune from his father, but he squanders it on his parties and girls until he goes bankrupt. He accidentally meets Nafisa, the naive rich girl, and tries to make her fall for him to get to her fortune.

Mizo's Story

1977

Fire’s bird poster
10.0

A tale of betrayal and greed.

Fire’s bird

1987

ماشي يا دنيا ماشي poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ماشي يا دنيا ماشي

1977