Youssef Daoud

Acting

Youssef Daoud

Born 1933-03-10 · Alexandria, Egypt

Youssef Girgis Salib was born in Alexandria. He graduated in 1960 from the electronic engineering division of the Faculty of Engineering. Thereafter he worked as an engineer before devoting himself to acting in 1985. He made his acting debut in the theatrical production Midaq Alley. Among the television productions that he participated in are "Al Souq" , “(Kasabna) Al Qadiyah” and “Al Dish wa Al Mish”. Youssef’s roles have varied from comic ones to portrayals of a police officer and a family head.

Acting credits

Life is a comedy novel poster
NR

The play follows Khaled, a bored government archive clerk who dreams of escaping his meaningless job. After discovering a book about the transmigration of souls, he begins experiencing different lives. He becomes a scientist, Antony in love with Cleopatra, and a politician involved in a nuclear war. Through these transformations, the play explores his desire for creativity, adventure, love, and freedom from his monotonous life.

Life is a comedy novel

1966

Zaki Chan poster
6.5

Trouble follows Zaki wherever he goes, until he finds out that his father's boss needs a bodyguard for his kids and he decides to apply for the job even though he doesn't really fit the requirements.

Zaki Chan

2005

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

El Rajul El Ghamid Bisalamatoh poster
4.3

The film revolves around "young" are forced to lie at the beginning of his life as a result of the difficult conditions experienced by the passage of time believe everyone lie, can not undo, and despite his work as an employee in the private sector but that correspond with a number of government agencies demanding to resolve a number of crises public such as "bread" and "unemployment" and "housing crisis" and occur after a surprise and become famous.

El Rajul El Ghamid Bisalamatoh

2010

The Egyptian Martyr St. Menas poster
8.0

The life of St. Menas

The Egyptian Martyr St. Menas

1989

My Wife Is a Gang Boss poster
NR

The domineering wife is absent from the house, so the husband takes advantage of the opportunity to catch his breath, as he frequent cabarets and mixes with dancers, with the help of her nephew, who brought him to watch her husband.

My Wife Is a Gang Boss

2008

Bittersweet poster
7.5

An Egyptian-American returns to his homeland after twenty years abroad, filled with nostalgia and high hopes. But as he reconnects with his roots, he finds himself caught between two worlds—and begins to experience the reality of a country he thought he knew.

Bittersweet

2010

Tarek's Situation poster
6.9

Tarek is a young man who is working at a telecommunications company,and he fell in love with a girl when he heard her voice in a radio talk show. A customer of the company he works at asks him to spy on a girl which stole a valuable thing from him. When Tarek does his searches, he discovers that she is the girl he have dreamed about.

Tarek's Situation

2006

His Highness Hanafy poster
6.3

Hanafi al'abiha steals a jewelry shop with his partners and hides the bag with his brother Ahmad before they were arrested. His three accomplices escape and kidnap Ahmed's wife Duaa until they recover the bag. Hanafi is temporarily released to lead the Police to the place of his colleagues, and the events follow.

His Highness Hanafy

1990

The Student Cop poster
6.5

The film revolves in the context of romantic comedy and action through the character of a police officer under covered as student in a university and befriends key students to uncover a drug distribution network within the university.

The Student Cop

2004

The Yacoubian Building poster
7.3

The lives of residents in an old Cairo building, "The Yacoubian Building," are affected by issues like corruption, extremism, class disparity, and sexuality. Through diverse characters, the film offers a critical examination of Egyptian society.

The Yacoubian Building

2006

Saint George the Hero poster
8.0

The life of St. George the hero prince of martyrdoms and the Saint of all ages

Saint George the Hero

1989

In the Heliopolis Flat poster
6.9

Najwa, a music teacher from the city of Minya, Upper Egypt, seizes the opportunity to come to Cairo on a trip with her students to search for Tahany, her first teacher that taught her music and used to live in an apartment in Heliopolis.

In the Heliopolis Flat

2007

Masyadet El Zeaab poster
NR

Three friends from different social classes, the first is a victim of his parents' divorce as they both try to win him over, the second lives on the money of his parents who live in the Gulf, and the third is a poor destitute who suffers from his mother running away from home with a drug dealer when he was young.

Masyadet El Zeaab

1994

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

Legend of the Lost Tomb poster
5.1

While excavating near the Pyramids, Dr. Leonhardt finds a small box with a map to the treasures of the Pharaoh Ramessess II. On his way to deliver this to the local authorities, he is kidnapped by his nemesis Dr. Bent. Before Bent can retrieve the papyrus map, Karen, who is Leonhardt's student assistant, and John, Leonhardt's son take the map to look for Leonhardt. They soon find that Bent is in hot pursuit and they figure that the only way to save Leonhardt is to be the first to the treasure so that they could ransom the Doctor from Bent. But Bent has other plans for all three of them.

Legend of the Lost Tomb

1997

Goodbye My Friend poster
6.8

Two friends Marzouk and Barakat, work with street vendor Batta on her cart in the melon trade. Al-Gayiar who works in the trade of stolen cars admires them, they work with him till they become his competitors. He decides to get rid of them after they've become a treat.

Goodbye My Friend

1986

Al Zaeem poster
7.7

Zeinhom is an ordinary man who struggles to maintain steady employment. Due to his uncanny resemblance to a powerful dictator, he is cast in a satirical film criticizing the regime. When unexpected events unfold, Zeinhom finds himself entangled in a dangerous political deception, forced to impersonate the very leader he mocked.

Al Zaeem

1993

الكنز poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

الكنز

1993

The Night Baghdad Fell poster
5.6

After the US invasion of Iraq, an Egyptian headmaster sponsors a young inventor to create a deterring weapon out of fear his country will be next.

The Night Baghdad Fell

2005

Bobbos poster
4.8

A wealthy businessman and a businesswoman face financial ruin during an economic crisis. As they try to recover, a comedic romance develops between them.

Bobbos

2009

The Three Are Tricking Her poster
4.7

The events revolve around the conflict between the girl and three men at one time, resulting in a lot of comedy, dealing with the phenomenon of new and serious on the communities of East and is the adoption of most young people in this age for girls, both sisters, granules or even friends - physically in unusual in Eastern societies in previous eras where the young man is no longer ashamed to get money from his sister or his lover or his girlfriend.

The Three Are Tricking Her

2010

Nanny Doody poster
4.2

A cellphone thief get stopped with her partner by the police , she sets him up and runs away safely. She later gets involved in a murder case, and escapes to Alexandria. There, she works as a nanny for a police officer, and meets another person who changes her life.

Nanny Doody

2008

Bakhit and Adeela poster
5.8

Bekhit works in a small workshop. He meets Adila by chance in a train, and they both find a suitcase full of money left by an escaping drug dealer. After they fail in finding the suitcase's owner, they both decide to share the money.

Bakhit and Adeela

1995