
Acting
Reyaad ElQasabgy
Born — Died
1903-09-13 — 1963-04-23
Place of birth
Egypt
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Reyad El Kassabguy started his career as a train conductor then joined the railway theater troupe. Later he joined Ahmad al-Shaamy amateur troupe, but this was not enough to put bread on the table. He moved to the silver screen, changed from villain into comic roles especially with Esmaeel Yasseen when he played the role of Shaweesh(sergeant) Ateyya in Esmaeel Yasseen’s trade mark series of films and also in “Al-aanessa Hanafy i.e. Miss Hanafy”. Reyaad managed to develop his own comedic style and running jokes, and was very popular and unique among Egyptian comedians.
Known for
8.5Faiza is raised in a family where the mother and the two sisters work in illegal acts. They try to drag her in with them but she refuses. She studies to become a school teacher and decides to move to the countryside away from them, but she finds other temptations that try to lure her in.
The Barred Road
1958
7.0A family whose breadwinner dies, leaving his wife and university-student daughter in the care of his son from his first wife. He treats them harshly and wastes their money - especially his sister's money, as he is her guardian - on his own pleasures. The mother and daughter are led by a kind family that takes her by the hand and curbs the son's ambitions.
Orphans' money
1952
6.4In Alexandria a terrifying phenomenon of the disappearance of women, spreads terror in the city. Police work to unravel its secrets. Officer Ahmed is preparing a plan to uncover who's behind it and it turns out to be the gang of Raya and Sakina, who were targeting women to steal their jewelry.
Rayya and Sekina
1952
6.5Ragab, a poor sailor, returns home to Alexandria after three years of absence, during which he tried to save money to marry his one true love, Hamedah. But there's trouble on the harbor, and with an old friend.
Struggle in the Harbor
1956
7.0Ismail 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
6.6Henry Barakat directed adaptation of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo.
Prince of Revenge
1950
Film credits
1960s · 2 titles
NRWhen Magdy writes an article about the pianist Nousa, his colleague Sherine grows jealous and claims that Nousa is not real and that Magdy invented her. Magdy tries to find Nousa to prove his innocence, only for Nousa to lie and get him in trouble.
Boundless Love
1960
10.0In the port of Alexandria, Captain Gad works on one of the mechanical boats. Gad orchestrates a ship accident that is taken as an act of God. Abu Ahmed is appointed foreman instead of Gad, who was waiting for the job. Abu Ahmed feels happy and conveys the good news to his wife, Amina, who wants a child. After a long wait, Jad decides to take revenge.
Abu Ahmad
1960
1950s · 41 titles
8.5Faiza is raised in a family where the mother and the two sisters work in illegal acts. They try to drag her in with them but she refuses. She studies to become a school teacher and decides to move to the countryside away from them, but she finds other temptations that try to lure her in.
The Barred Road
1958
7.0A family whose breadwinner dies, leaving his wife and university-student daughter in the care of his son from his first wife. He treats them harshly and wastes their money - especially his sister's money, as he is her guardian - on his own pleasures. The mother and daughter are led by a kind family that takes her by the hand and curbs the son's ambitions.
Orphans' money
1952
6.4In Alexandria a terrifying phenomenon of the disappearance of women, spreads terror in the city. Police work to unravel its secrets. Officer Ahmed is preparing a plan to uncover who's behind it and it turns out to be the gang of Raya and Sakina, who were targeting women to steal their jewelry.
Rayya and Sekina
1952
6.5Ragab, a poor sailor, returns home to Alexandria after three years of absence, during which he tried to save money to marry his one true love, Hamedah. But there's trouble on the harbor, and with an old friend.
Struggle in the Harbor
1956
7.0Ismail 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
6.6Henry Barakat directed adaptation of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo.
Prince of Revenge
1950
NRHamida works as a saleswoman in one of the shops, and one day the painter Anwar admires her beauty. He offers her to work with him as a model , and she agrees. Later, a wealthy man offers to marry Hamida even though he has been married several times. But she's confused because she loves Anwar.
MY EYE TWINKLES
1950
7.1Ebn Hameedo is an undercover police officer who arrives with his colleague Hassan at a fishing area near Suez where drug trafficking is practiced. They meet two sisters, Azeeza, the younger, and Hameeda, the older maiden. They rent a room in their father’s house and fall in love with the two girls. Their love could have led to marriage had it not been for al-Baaz Effendi who wanted to marry Azeeza and tried to get rid of Hassan. Al-Baaz is also involved in the narcotics business. so they track him down in order to catch the rest of the gang.
Son of Hamido
1957
7.0Two youths open an office for secret police work. A man in the office asks him to look for a dog that his mistress has gone out and lost, while he is staying with her in the hotel where she works as a dancer. The investigators are unable to find the dog and decide to hand over another dog similar to the client. One goes to the hotel to deliver the fake dog dancer after changing his shape to become the same as the missing dog. In the hotel unexpected events occur, so the young man can discover a gang consisting of some of the hotel staff specialized in stealing money. The young man masquerades and searches for this gang and the events follow.
The Surprises Motel
1959
NRMaster Toha had eleven ex-husbands, but she wants to marry Rashad the driver, who refuses to marry her. Toha attempts to pressure him through his sister but he also refuses, eventually deciding to hire a killer to get rid of him unless he submits himself.
Tuha
1958
8.2The film's story is about his bait and her father, who borrows from the neighborhood teachers who want to marry him and promises everyone who lends him money to marry his daughter to him. The film revolves around the character of Hassouna Al-Fatari, who falls in love with Tohme and at the same time falls in love with her, Alwa Al-Tamraji, so the conflict occurs between Hassouna and Alwa and the father who enters Habib Tohma in a mental hospital, which at the end of the film and on Tohma's wedding day can escape from the hospital and reveal the truth.
Ismail Yassine in the Mental Hospital
1958
6.2Essam, a young bedouin who discovers the cruel tyranny of his ruler after people from his tribe are unjustly murdered, decides to overthrow him.
The Devil of the Desert
1954
8.0The story revolves around Sultan, the poor child who grows up and becomes a military correspondent at an elite brigade. He enjoys the sympathy of the police officer, the son of the general, unlike the rest of the house.
Soultan
1958
9.0When a young unemployed man is chased by creditors from all sides, a girl sympathizes with him. He decides to commit suicide by hanging himself but his attempt fails. However, he finds hidden money in the ceiling and becomes rich.
The Scornful Man
1956
7.0Wahid has a friend who works in the drug trade named Abu Al-Ezz. Abu Al-Ezz undertakes a single training in gambling until he loses all of his wealth. After that, he offers him to return his wealth to participate in drug smuggling activities, the police lie in wait for them, except that Wahid causes the killing of his cousin the officer Celal.
Katia tarik
1959
NRThe film revolves around a girl who tries to commit suicide because of her family's torture, but another person comes to save her from death. She goes with him to his house and tells him how cruel her family is to her. He tries to reconcile between her and her family, but he gets into trouble with her family and decides to marry the girl.
Ismail Yassin for sale!
1958
7.2A man loves a dancer in a nightclub and decides to marry her , but he wants her to quit her work. The owners of the nightclub conspire against him by making him join the military police so the dancer can return to work.
Ismail Yassine Is A Military Policeman
1958
7.2Hemaidah is a Farmer who hates country life. He hates working in fields and taking care of the animals in his farm. Though unsatisfied with her, he marries Zebeidah, a woman in the same village.
Son of the Nile
1951
5.7The story revolves around the mayor of Morschi married to a dancer whose son was born from his first wife. The mayor exploits the peasantry to achieve his personal ambitions and goals without paying attention to them. After a period, the mayor knows that someone from the ministry will search him, The mayor believes that one of them is the inspector-general of the ministry and approaches him, exploiting the other person to deceive the mayor with his friend and asking him for many bribes.
The General Inspector
1956
8.0A girl who is placed by circumstances in corrupt circumstances, learns the craft of pickpocketing, joins a gang that exploits her work, and after a period of narrowing the life of corruption and hate being in this gang
Lady Pickpocket
1953
6.2Ismail Yassin and his relatives have to spend a month living in a haunted house in order to collect their inheritance.
Ismail Yassine in the House of Ghosts
1952
7.0A naive man Mahrous from Upper Egypt arrives in Cairo meets a fraudster. The fraudster feels that Mahrous has reassured him that he can sell him the famous green threshold square
The Green Doorstep
1959
6.0The film's events take place in a comedic context, as Fatima (Faten Hamama) opens a law office. Her fiancé, Adel (Kamal El-Shenawy), refuses to agree to her work because he does not believe in her ability to succeed and a woman’s inability to work as a lawyer, so she challenges his opinion to prove to him that she is superior.
Professor Fatima
1952
8.0The film revolves around a young man who falls in love with his cousin, but her mother rejects this love and marriage, and tries to marry her to an older and wealthy man, to ask her cousin to volunteer in the fleet to help speed up the marriage.
Ismail Yassine In the Navy
1957
9.0Adel and Samia are in love, but her father is in financial trouble , when Adel decides to intervene to repay the man's debts he gets in an accident and wakes up to find his sweetheart has married someone else.
Night Train
1953
7.2A poor maid loves her wealthy young master and she becomes pregnant. The head of the family seeks to make her marry a lawless man to give the newborn girl his name. Time passes and the girl becomes a dancer in nightclubs, and falls in love with a wealthy young man who knows who is her real father .
The Farewell Dance
1954
6.3Working class Hassan and the rich Hanafi are rivals for Nawaeim's love. Going to the hospital to be treated for a horrible wedding night stomach pain, Hanafi receives an accidental sex change operation. After months of recuperation, he tries to pick up the pieces of his life as an unattractive, mannish woman named Fifi. She becomes the opposite of Hanafi. Where he was brusque, she is flirtatious.
Miss Hanafi
1954
7.8Navy officer Wahid arrives in a military hospital, with a kidney failure, his days are numbered. The inmates try to cheer him up , while his nurse gets closer to him, and soon kindness turns to love.
Farewell, Love
1956
7.6He comes to Ismail to summon for recruitment, and finds it difficult to implement the orders that are given to him in the army, and from here many funny situations arise, as Ismail lives in a love story, but there are those who compete with him for the love of the girl he loves
Ismail Yassine in the Army
1955
9.0Osama is a young man who believes in luck but comes across many situations until he is believed to have killed a police recruiter. When this thief knows that Hama is a millionaire, he tries to steal a precious jewel from the treasury until he is finally captured.
Imsk haramy
1958
7.0Shehata Effendi is a clerk for a wealthy woman who is in dispute with her husband. Her husband divorced her a third time, so they resort to Shehata to marry her. Then the wealthy wife dies and he inherits her fortune, prompting him to think of marrying his old neighbor Asrar.
The Great Clown
1952
7.0A classic Egyptian film noir starring Omar Sharif who is trying to find out the mysterious circumstances under which his brother was killed. This gem also features the belly dancer Samia Gamal and features some of her famous exotic dancing tableaux.
Rendezvous with a Stranger
1959
7.0The events take place during the tripartite aggression against the city of Port Said, through the spy network of the British Intelligence, in which Pat (Laila Fawzi) works, while Al-Ambashi Talbah (Farid Shawqi) leads the resistance group, and the resistance men confront the aggression and vile conspiracies led by traitors and spies.
Port Said
1957
7.7Ismail 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
9.0Jalal is a successful engineer who loves his neighbor Laila, the granddaughter of a pasha, but he hides his love for fear of social differences. Her uncle supervises her money, even though he is a gambler. Laila's cousin, a reckless young man, covets marrying her to seize her money. He learns by chance that Jalal loves Laila, so he tricks them both, and seizes the money from both of them.
Ibn el harra
1953
NRDuring the Turkish occupation of the city of Kufa, there was an imam in the city called Juha, who called on the people to be guided and to always follow the straight path. Therefore, his method was to address the people, explaining the disadvantages of this occupation. Therefore, the Turkish ruler saw that Juha had become one of the rioters against them, so he ordered his dismissal from his work as an imam. Rather, he goes so far as to arrest and imprison him, and after a while orders his release, but he still continues his struggle against injustice and oppression.
Mosmar Juha
1952
9.0The film talks about luck begins with the wealthy son who embezzles from the mother of a large amount of money to pay to one of the singers as a deposit to sing them casino and play by gambling and wasting all in the way of suicide meets the girl with a beautiful voice Vijnha to work at the mother instead of suicide is the other after lying to the mother After what she hears on the radio, she doesn't want to spend the decade out of fear of her mother, but they are chasing her. Contract, and finds that the criminal has sold his contract For another criminal, he lives in fear, especially after his outlook on life has changed and events are taking place in a comic context
Your luck this week
1953
NRTwo orphaned sisters, one working as a singer (Sabah), and the other working as a dancer (Nadia Jamal), decide to escape from their mother and her husband who takes their money. They go to a famous singer (Farid al-Atrash) to work in his band. He discovers the talent of the singer and falls for her.
How Can I Forget You
1956
NRThe events revolve around the character of the girl Nemat (Sabah), who aspires to have a prosperous life to compensate for the suffering she has endured. Neamat pretends to be rich to lure the wealthy young man Hussein (Shukri Sarhan) into falling in love with her. Nemat's plan faces many difficulties and challenges as events unfold.
Eghraa
1957
7.3A poor graduated singer struggling to get his chance, disguises into an old music teacher to work in a girl's school. A bet is launched between two of the leading students to trap this teacher into their affection.
The Love Street
1958
7.5Ahmed and Fadel are two brothers, one is a lawyer and the other works to collect money by all means, but he discovers too late that money is useless, and that it is indeed a door to many corruptions and temptations.
Battle of life
1950
1940s · 16 titles
9.0A 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
7.3The 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
NRYoung Fouad, the son of Adel Pasha, travels abroad to continue his studies. During his absence, Adel Pasha assaults Amina, the widow of Attia, the overseer of his estate. When she tells him she is pregnant, he cruelly expels her from the estate. Homeless and destitute, Amina gives birth to a baby girl named Nihad. On the very same day, Mounira, the wife of the Pasha's secretary, gives birth to her own child, Mahrous. Years pass, and fate intertwines the lives of the two children born on the same day. As secrets from the past begin to unravel, the true identity of the father comes to light, revealing the hidden secret that will change everyone's destiny.
My Father’s secret
1946
NRAbdul Ghani (Sharafnat) is a stingy man who marries his daughter Jawahar (Hajar Hamdi) and her aunt, Umm Khalil (Mary Munib), who practices self-indulgence and deprives him of all the pleasures of life. The daughter lives poor and deprived despite the richness of her father. Abdul Ghani retains his money in an iron safe inside the wall and his estate agent Rizk (Abdul Hamid Zaki) computes the account of the two kings, and does not excuse any farmer who is late in paying the rent
Gawaher
1949
NRThe trio of a Wife and her lover plotting a murder for her husband. Their maid gets into Jail instead of them. This maid had a daughter that gets to be raised by her friend. The wife gets into jail shortly after she was arrested for misusing the well of her son. In Jail she meets with her maid and confess to her with her sin that led to this destiny, then she dies. After twenty years she gets out of Jail to see what has the fate introduce to her daughter and the killers daughter that share same lover.
Punishment
1948
NRVim Anbar is a lyrical comedy film starring Laila Murad and Anwar Wagdy with a group of stars who participated with Laila Murad in singing the song that is dear to my heart. They are Ismail Yassin, Aziz Othman, Mahmoud Shoukoko,
Anbar
1948
9.0Antar bin Shaddad is a slave son of a slave mother in the tribe of Bani Abs. His father Shaddad, the tribe's master, refuses to recognize him. Antar falls in love with his cousin Abla, who loves him back, while her uncle refuses this marriage and wants to marry her to another handsome young man named Omara. To get rid of him, her uncle asks for a huge dowry of one hundred red she-camels which only exist in the land of the Ghassanids (on the outskirts of Sham) at King Al-Nu'man. Antar indeed travels there to bring those camels, goes through severe hardships on his journey, then returns to his tribe again to try to win his beloved Abla.
Antar and Abla
1945
10.0Princess Nour Al-Doha, Princess of the Sultanate of Java, is a guest at one of the grand hotels in Egypt. One day, Hamida, the fruit merchant, flees to this hotel and meets the princess there, who resembles her to the point of being identical. The princess asks Hamida to replace her on official visits, and events escalate.
The Princess Of Dreams
1945
8.7Othman Abdelbaset suffers from the intervention of his mother-in-law in his life with his wife. He always worries about his assistants in the pancake shop he runs until his mother-in-law succeeds in cutting him off with his wife and turning his life into hell. He thinks of committing suicide and introduces his idea to his aides. The three go to sea to carry out the idea, but one of the sailors sees them leading the boat trip to one of the islands and they are on an adventure inside the Prince of the Island where they fight the bad guys who want to take over the island rule
Nour al-Din and the Three Sailors
1944
NRSamir became one of the most famous composers and authors of music, trying to present his best melodies to the band he loved and worked in with the actress Attiyat, with whom he was associated. However, her betrayal of him prompted him to abandon his work and life and decide to commit suicide. When he met one of the girls whose sweet voice he admired, but he thought she was in a relationship. With one of the young men.
Jawhara
1943
8.0Victor Hugo's classic novel of Jean Valjean, pursued through the years by an unbending foe, the cruel lawman Javert.
Les Misérables
1943
8.0Fouzy 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
6.0Ali Baba lives in poverty while his brother Qasim lives a wealthy life. One day Ali Baba discovers a secret cave which contains countless treasures. He tries to solve his financial problems with thehe contents of the cave, but as Qasim enters the picture, things turn irreversibly.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1942
9.0Othman, a fisherman, finds a baby inside a floating basket while fishing, so he takes him, raises him and teaches him fishing. Othman gets arrested for fishing in a protected area, but the prince's daughter intervenes to exempt him. A genie than appears to Othman and tells him the story of his adopted son Morgan.
A Thousand and One Nights
1941
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Al-Haz Al-Sa'eed
1945
10.0Shehata works as an accountant in a store that sells birds, arrives to him a letter bearing the news of his acceptance to a new job as an accountant in endowment properties, it happens that a dancer claims that she has a child from the son of the endowment overseer and leaves him for him and everyone knows that there is a child called Helmous, and they don’t know him either a mother or father. The daughter of the head of the endowment takes advantage of this event and claims to be the mother of the child from Shehata.
Abu halmos
1947

