Bishara Wakim

Acting

Bishara Wakim

Born 1890-03-05 · Cairo, Egypt

An Egyptian actor, born in the Faggala district of Cairo in 1890, he studied at the French Frere Schools in Bab al-Louq and later enrolled in the Faculty of Law, earning a bachelor's degree. He was nominated for a scholarship to France, but his studies were cut short due to the outbreak of World War I. He began his artistic career with the troupes of Abdel Rahman Rushdi and George Abyad, and then worked with Youssef Wahbi in his troupe. He also worked with Mounira al-Mahdiyya, and starred in numerous films during the 1930s and 1940s, including: (Bisalamtuh Ayez Yitgawz, Al-Bashkawil, Law Kont Ghani, Intisar al-Shabab, and Al-Arees al-Khamis).

Acting credits

The Princess of the Island poster
9.0

A princess is kidnapped by a greedy and mean Calif. He wants to marry her. Three men set out to rescue her, and with the aid of a ring with a spirit in it they succeed.

The Princess of the Island

1948

The Bashmakul poster
9.0

The film's events revolve around the lawyer Mumtaz, who loves flirting with women, despite his marriage, and continues to cheat on his wife, until she decides to teach him a lesson in agreement with her friend, where she pretends to be cheating on him with another man. Will Mumtaz be fooled and believe his wife's betrayal of him? Or will he understand the lesson and stop cheating on her?

The Bashmakul

1940

Jealousy poster
NR

A love story grows between a young athlete and his neighbor. As he dreams of winning a championship, girls begin to chase him, and one seeks to make him fall for her, which generates feelings of jealousy in the heart of his beloved who abandons him.

Jealousy

1946

The three musketeers poster
8.0

Bahbah, Shiha, and Sanqur are three colleagues working in a newspaper whose editor-in-chief, Amer, stipulates that he should not be married to work there. Each of them was married and concealed his marriage. The three go to a hotel in Helwan to recuperate. There they meet Hosnia, who is searching with her uncle for a wealthy groom, and begins to set her nets on them, and events escalate.

The three musketeers

1940

Al-anissa Busa poster
8.0

Fouzy Pasha agrees with his daughter that whoever marries her must choose her for her person and love for her, not for her wealth. Indeed, Fouzy Pasha pretends to be bankrupt and even chooses a modest, popular residence and wanders the streets playing the piano while his daughter sings. Love brings his daughter together with a young man from a wealthy family, and the Pasha blesses this love.

Al-anissa Busa

1945

Queen of the Stage poster
8.0

Badiaa married a wealthy man who abandoned her three days after their marriage. Badiaa decided to depend on herself, so she created a theater to spread her fame and become famous. She met Asham, who told her about her husband’s will, that she would have half of his property and Asham would have the other half, on the condition that they marry and neither of them betrays the other, otherwise the money would go to the other party.

Queen of the Stage

1936

Barsoum Looking for a Job poster
6.3

It is the story of two friends, one a Muslim, Sheik Metwalli, and the other a Coptic Christian, Barsoum, both unemployed, suffering from hunger, and competing for a job in a bank. When the bank’s director mistakes them for wealthy businessmen, he takes them to his home for a lavish lunch. But upon learning their actual status, he chases them out of the house. At the film’s conclusion, as the two friends rest on the sidewalk absorbing their long-overdue meal, they are arrested by a policeman.

Barsoum Looking for a Job

1923

Serving Two Masters poster
NR

Shoman Pasha discovers that there is an upholsterer named Master Abbas who looks just like him. The Pasha decides to switch places with Abbas after he gets fed up with his life and its restrictions, just as the upholsterer gets tired of living a life of poverty and need.

Serving Two Masters

1946

Hassan & Hassan poster
10.0

Hassan is a taxi driver, and his cousin is also called Hassan, but he is a con man. Hassan the con man marries his cousin, the sister of Hassan the driver. He finds this an opportunity to blackmail his cousin, so he urges him to invest his money in a fake company. They travel to Alexandria and meet the beautiful Houria and the two fall in love with her.

Hassan & Hassan

1945

Laylat Al-farah poster
NR

A man divorces his wife and his daughter Salma lives with him. However, he marries a playful young girl who cheats on him with a theater actor called Riyad, who brags about his infidelity to his friend, the playwright Hazem. Salma happens to meet Hazem on the same train, as she was traveling to her father’s estate and he was going to visit his friend Riyad. At the estate, Salma learns about her stepmother's betrayal.

Laylat Al-farah

1942

Layla, Daughter of the Rich poster
7.0

Laila is a wealthy girl, with a father who has no will and a domineering wife. Her stepmother tries to marry her to his son so that the wealth does not go outside them. Laila decides to flee, and causes an accident with her car. Everyone thinks she is dead, but she ends up in a village, and a journalist sympathizes with her.

Layla, Daughter of the Rich

1946

The Innocent poster
NR

Mohsen is a wealthy, romantic young man who lives in his grandfather's palace. One day, he decides to shelter a number of homeless children in order to reform them. This turns his family against him, expelling him from the palace and filing a quarantine lawsuit against him.

The Innocent

1944

عروسة البحر poster
NR

When a struggling fisherman is dissatisfied with his life, he has a dream about how a mermaid is caught in his net and her tears of misery are turning any metal into gold. But the new wealth that the fisherman achieves becomes the source of his unhappiness.

عروسة البحر

1947

Al-Haz Al-Sa'eed poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Al-Haz Al-Sa'eed

1945

Man of the future poster
NR

Kamel Amel is a man who gains great wealth and moves from a life of poverty to a life of wealth and luxury. This incident arouses the interest of journalist Suhair, who finds in his transformation journalistic material. She contacts him and writes articles about him brimming with sarcasm and mockery, accusing him of He is a foolish millionaire, and a relative who envies his wealth is exploiting these articles and demanding that he be placed under guardianship

Man of the future

1946

The Unknown Past poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Unknown Past

1946

The Civil Servant poster
1.0

When a chief clerk falls in love with a dancer, he embezzles an amount of money that he spends on her and ends up in prison, and things turn upside down in his life.

The Civil Servant

1924

Laylat Al-Jumea poster
9.0

Uncle Abdel Fattah forces his nephew Anwar to marry so that he does not deprive him of the inheritance. Anwar does marry, but one day he goes with his friend to a cabaret and meets Tahia, the dancer, who brings him back home drunk. The uncle comes to confirm his nephew's marriage and finds Tahia, who claims that she is his wife. When his real wife appears, he introduces her as his friend's wife.

Laylat Al-Jumea

1945

The Victory of Youth poster
7.0

Waheed, the young composer, struggles with his sister, the singer Nadia, to make a living. They find work in one of the nightclubs, but the manager expels them because Nadia refuses to sit with the patrons. They suffer from torment and homelessness. Nadia falls in love with the wealthy Mohi, who agrees to marry her, but his mother opposes. As for Waheed, He also loves a rich girl and agrees with her brother to marry her. Mohi marries Nadia without caring about his mother, and Waheed succeeds in presenting the operetta he dreamed of directing.

The Victory of Youth

1941

No artwork available
NR

As Nabil falls in love with Elham, a dancer who hides the truth about her profession, he marries her despite his mother’s opposition. But as Elham suffers from Nabil's concern for traditions, she meets another man and falls into temptation.

The First Love

1945

Les Misérables poster
8.0

Victor Hugo's classic novel of Jean Valjean, pursued through the years by an unbending foe, the cruel lawman Javert.

Les Misérables

1943

Bent Zawat poster
NR

Ibrahim believed that his upbringing in the Pasha's palace would make him a member of the family, but his dreams were shattered after the Pasha's daughter refused to marry him due to the difference in social level between them. Ibrahim seeks revenge through work, collecting a large fortune and taking revenge on the Pasha's daughter.

Bent Zawat

1942

The Lady's Game poster
7.3

The film takes place in Cairo during the Second World War, where Hassan Abu Tabq (Naguib Al-Rihani) meets the girl Laybeh (Tahiya Karioca), and feelings of love develop between them while Hassan struggles, and things change little by little when a game comes in front of you with a great opportunity to portray a movie star. .

The Lady's Game

1946

Casino el latafa poster
10.0

Aziza and Sharifa are two friends. They are married to the two friends, Aziz and Refaat. Aziza suspects her husband's behavior, and her friend supports this suspicion. They concoct a plan. Sharifa sends an unsigned love letter to Aziz Pasha and sets him up on a date in the casino.

Casino el latafa

1945