Younes Shalaby

Acting

Younes Shalaby

Born 1941-05-30 · El Mansoura, Egypt

Younis Ali Youssef Shalaby was born in Dakahleya. He achieved his degree from the High Institute of Theatrical Arts in 1969, and started acting in the theater. He especially shone in the comedy The Delinquents in 1973 and The Kids Have Grown Up. He started acting in cinema in Shadows on the Other Side (1975). He received an honorary award for his role in the movie Lovers Under 20. He was also involved in several series such as: Eyes, Women Don’t Do This, and his role in the famous children’s program “Boogi and Tamtam”. The late actor was married to his relative and had several kids from her. He is considered one of the biggest comedy icons in modern Egyptian cinema.

Acting credits

The Prince of Darkness poster
5.8

The film revolves around Saeed AL-Masri (Adel Imam), one of the pilots of the October War who lost his eye-sight after his plane crashed during the war. Saeed AL-Masri is forced to live in a home for disabled people that is managed by a very bureaucratic managers which they turn it into a prison.

The Prince of Darkness

2002

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6.0

Adel decides to marry Sawsan despite the opposition of her parents. Adel is under pressure from her father to divorce her. Eventually Adel gives in to her father's threat to imprison him because of his marriage to a minor and divorces her. Sawsan escapes from her home and turns to her friend Mona.

Under 20 Lovers

1979

Ela Al Ma2zoon Ya Habibi poster
NR

Basbousa is an orphan girl, who has a love affair with Samir, takes advantage of the admiration of Rafat, the manager of Samir, and asks him to promote her fiancé, so he agrees, which arouses the jealousy of one of his colleagues, and he begins to spread rumors.

Ela Al Ma2zoon Ya Habibi

1977

The School of Mischief poster
8.5

In a high school plagued by five unruly students who have failed to graduate for over a decade, the principal hires a new teacher in a last-ditch effort to restore order. Effat, the newly appointed instructor, takes on the challenge with hopes of reforming the troublemakers into model students.

The School of Mischief

1973

Elsool Wel Haramee poster
NR

Director: Hassan Abdulsalam () Ahmed Magdy () (more) Writer: Essam Al Gamblaty (Writer) Cast: Younes Shalaby Abdallah Farghaly Rajaa Hussain Osama Abbas Samira Sedky Angel Aram

Elsool Wel Haramee

1987

No Longer Kids poster
8.0

The play tells the story of four siblings trying to stop their father from leaving his family for another woman after one of them accidentally finds a love letter from an unknown woman to their father.

No Longer Kids

1979

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

Harib min Al-tagneed poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Harib min Al-tagneed

1992

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

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

Bride and two grooms poster
8.0

Soria works in the theatrical troupe "Asfour Troupe" and marries the director, Essam, despite the actor Shaker being in love with her. Essam travels abroad, and the ship he's on sinks. After the legal waiting period for a missing spouse passes, Soria marries Shaker. Essam suddenly returns, shocking everyone with his reappearance. He is unaware that his wife married his friend during his absence. Soria is torn – Essam insists on reclaiming her, while she feels affection for both husbands. Sensing Soria's inner conflict, Shaker divorces her and marries his colleague Sanaa. Meanwhile, Essam returns to Soria once again.

Bride and two grooms

1982

The Fugitives poster
5.0

After his father passes away, Salah returns from America to receive his inheritance, and seeks to sell the property that includes a football club, which lands him in many unexpected situations.

The Fugitives

2023

Khabtta El-Umar poster
NR

Ahmed Talaba (Younis Shalaby) is married to Afkar (Shahira) and suffers from severe financial distress. He works as an extra and is fired from films because of his interference in the directors’ work. He installs a new phone, but receives a wrong call from (Morsi) who tells him that he has kidnapped his daughter and demands a ransom of 200,000 pounds, although he does not have a daughter in the first place. He decides to continue the dialogue, investigate it, and save the girl.

Khabtta El-Umar

1991

Tower of Tanneries poster
NR

The wealthy merchant Salama moves from the tannery neighborhood to live in his new building in Mohandessin. His son, Hisham, returns from the war of 73 with a leg injury and PTSD, and his wife, Nadia, clings to him. As for his son, Issam, he owns a boutique, and his girlfriend, Nana, supplies him with goods from abroad, including medicine for his father. Salama decides to marry Nana, so Issam gets rid of her so that she will not share the inheritance with them.

Tower of Tanneries

1983

Aman Ya Dunia - أمان يا دنيا poster
NR

"Morsi" The Conductor, lives on the rooftop of the house of his girlfriend "Najfa", who owns a convenience store, and her mother "Attiyat" refuses to marry him to her daughter. Morsi Meet a businessman "Mohsen", who sent him with a bag to Alexandria to deliver it to Khawaja Peter and receive another bag from him.

Aman Ya Dunia - أمان يا دنيا

1991

The Killer Of Karmoz poster
NR

Morsi resorts to a colleague who studies his business, Medhat, to work for him. Medhat offers to participate in drug trafficking. Mahrous, head of the gang, tells Mursi that he is charged with murder and possessing drugs and is sentenced to life imprisonment. Morsi escapes from prison and learns about six Hassan. Mahrous kills Medhat and happens to reach Morsi before he utters his breath, confesses to him the crime of Mahrous, which he arranged for him to resist revenge. The police officers arrest Mahrous after six of them inform him. Morsi speeds up to escape and reaches the sea and does not respond to those who call him to tell him his innocence.

The Killer Of Karmoz

1987

One Woman Is Not Enough poster
NR

Journalist Hossam is involved with three different women at the same time. Amira, the charming journalist who's well connected, Reem his rebel revolutionary secretary, and Hanadi the simple lady who's the victim of the collapse of a building.

One Woman Is Not Enough

1990

4-2-4 poster
5.6

Lions Football club Abdul Ghaffar (Amin Al Hunaidi) decides to be a football team of his factory workers, but the disease is severe and recommends his son Mansour (Younis Shalabi), to take over the management of the factory and the team to succeed him and face financial problems, so Mansour turned to his manager and his friend (Samir Ghanem), To develop a plan for the advancement of the team will they succeed?

4-2-4

1981

Days Journey poster
NR

The story revolves around (Magdy), who gets to know the poor girl (Yasmine), who claims to be rich even though she works as a novice actress in one of the theater groups, while (Magdy) claims the exact opposite, and presents himself as poor, but the truth emerges. Because of Yasmine's uncle, who works in Magdy's father's villa, and after Magdy marries Yasmine, Yasmine goes to her mother, who works in a brothel, and the police arrest everyone, including Yasmine. Magdy divorces her. ), and he meets one of his relatives.

Days Journey

1976

Tabounet Hamza - طابونة حمزة poster
NR

"Hussein" is an honest food inspector who goes to Cairo, and live in a small room on a rooftop, he works overtime, while some rotten businessmen tries to bribe him unsuccessfully, so they set him up for a lifetime in prison, but he escapes and reach out for his girlfriend "Reda", who trick the antagonists to prove Hussein's innocence.

Tabounet Hamza - طابونة حمزة

1984

Man in women's prison poster
NR

After being shocked by the girl he loves, Younes disguises himself as a woman to steal from the rich. He falls in love with Nosa, who works in an imported clothing store. The owner uses him as a cover for drug dealing. Younes goes to prison after being caught in a suspicious apartment. Nosa is also imprisoned on charges of drug dealing. Younes tries to prove Nosa's innocence of what was attributed to her without her knowledge.

Man in women's prison

1982

Maghawry in college poster
NR

Maghawry meets his college colleague Laila, who opens her apartment for gambling and tells him about her circumstances that push her to do so. She married her wealthy colleague in an informal marriage, but his family rebelled against him, so he left her and gave her the apartment, so she was forced to open it for gambling so she could earn money from it. She responds to Maghawry's advice and is content with renting the apartment furnished, and he marries her and gives their child his name.

Maghawry in college

1985

Avenging Ragab poster
8.0

Shandawili and Ashmawy arrive from their hometown to Cairo to look for Abdel-Al, who's supposed to buy a modern farming machine. They both fall prey to Abu Hatab's gang. Feryal admires Shandawili, and decides to repent. Shandawili informs the police about Abu Hatab and his gang with the help of Feryal.

Avenging Ragab

1984

Legs In Mud poster
NR

Fardous is in prison for stealing a watch. She shares a cell with Samia, who works in a show band and is wrongly arrested in a brothel and Mona who accidentally killed a child with her car. When Fardous comes out, she works in Asfour's poultry farm, but leaves it when he and his son compete to marry her.

Legs In Mud

1976