Waheid Seif

Acting

Waheid Seif

Born — Died

1939-03-20 — 2013-01-19

Place of birth

Alexandria, Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

77 titles

An Egyptian actor specializing in comedic roles, he held a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Alexandria University. During his university years, he joined the Alexandria theater troupe and performed in numerous plays. He moved to Cairo in 1968 and made his cinematic debut in 1971 with the film *Zawjati wal-Kalb* (My Wife and the Dog); he subsequently rose to fame, appearing in dozens of productions across film, theater, and television. His most notable works include *Shari’ Mohamed Ali*, *Al-Mal wal-Banoun*, *Mohami Khol’*, *Sayed El-Atefy*, and *Ayez Haqqi*. He passed away in January 2013 at the age of 73, following a long battle with illness. He was married three times; his first…

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 9 titles

Romantic Sayed poster
5.4

A musical comedy telling the story of a mother who is trying to raise her son Sayyed after her husband's death. However, her son faces problems whether at college or with his uncle.

Romantic Sayed

2005

Mr. Abu Al-Araby Arrived poster
5.3

The film revolves around a young man named "Abu Arabi" who works in commerce, but does not succeed. However, he wants to marry a girl called "Mahja", but her father refuses because he wants to marry his daughter to a clothing vendor.

Mr. Abu Al-Araby Arrived

2005

Ali Spicy poster
6.0

Ali joins the Faculty of Medicine at the request of his father. He succeeds in treating his patients with psychotherapy which makes the hospital manager jealous, at the same time he becomes a famous star thanks to a cabaret owner, and his success also raises the jealousy of the new singer (Dunya).

Ali Spicy

2005

We Love The Life Of Freedom poster
NR

Hassan is a courageous journalist who writes about the British colonization. Escaping arrest, he meets a gypsy singer in a remote village and love ignites when she helps him. A romance drama that educates the viewer on patriotism and resistance as well.

We Love The Life Of Freedom

2001

Her Divorce Lawyer poster
5.8

A wealthy woman who owns a designer cloth factory, goes to a lawyer asking to be divorced from her 3 months husband because he snores.

Her Divorce Lawyer

2002

Gang 16 poster
NR

An adventurous girl whose father dies and his manager takes over his wealth, as her cousin and his friend try to chase the man and get back the wealth, and they accidentally join a gang led by a patient who has escaped from a mental hospital.

Gang 16

2006

God Save Gomaa poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

God Save Gomaa

2007

I Want My Right poster
6.1

A down-to-earth, struggling taxi driver (Ramzi) discovers, by sheer chance, that his country's constitution grants him a share in the nation's entire public property. He proceeds to collecting power-of-attorney documents from over 50% of the population in order to literally sell out the country so that he could get married.

I Want My Right

2003

Al-Zamahlawia poster
4.8

The film revolves around the families of Shehata Hussein and Salim Abu Nawas (Salah Eidullah and Izzat Abu Auf), one of whom belongs to Zamalek football Club and the other to Al-Ahli football Club. Both families have a lot of hostile feelings because of their extreme football fanaticism. Abeer Abu Nawas (Bushra) is in love with Hassan Ibn Shehata (Ahmed Azmi), which puts this story of love in front of the obstacle of football fanaticism of both families.

Al-Zamahlawia

2008

1990s · 8 titles

No artwork available
NR

Millionaire Bahgat, the owner of an investment company, plots to frame four of his employees for a crime they did not commit. However, they manage to escape. Sana, the lawyer and fiancée of one of them, sets out to prove their innocence and is joined by Colonel Adel after his investigation uncovers evidence implicating Bahgat. But higher authorities order Colonel Adel to stop investigating Bahgat’s illegal activities. Convinced of Bahgat’s guilt and the young men’s innocence, Colonel Adel decides to resign and join forces with Sana in her mission to expose the truth.

Chasing the Forbidden

1993

Say Hi to Soso poster
NR

When Saeed and his colleague Samir go through financial hardship, Ali seizes the opportunity to convince them to use their government jobs to get bribes to facilitate people's requests. Ali gets a percentage of the money until they decide to repent, but Ali refuses to leave them alone.

Say Hi to Soso

1990

The Woman And The Hornet poster
NR

Salwa is a wealthy woman whose husbands keep dying for different reasons. But when she falls for the con man Adel, she finds her life turned upside down as a relationship forms between them.

The Woman And The Hornet

1998

The Clever Ones poster
NR

After the 1967 War, three contractors conspire against Rasha, the famous singer, to arrest her on charges of spying for foreign parties after her husband commits suicide. All attempts to prove her innocence fail and she is sent to prison. When she is released in 73, she tries to reopen her case.

The Clever Ones

1993

The servant poster
9.0

Shaheen falsely imprisons Kamel and exploits his son Mahmoud as a servant.

The servant

1990

Mohamad Ali's Street poster
6.3

A play in the streets of Mohammed Ali through a musical and performance ensemble, which is linked to a love story with her neighbor, will she achieve her dream of stardom and love.

Mohamad Ali's Street

1991

Al'astaa maharuws poster
NR

Al-Aseel Mahrous decides to marry his neighbor Zaynab despite his mother's objection to her because she is divorced and permanent. She is harassed by her husband, who harasses her on the day of her marriage to Mahrous, who kills him in self-defense, and enters prison for three years. What he discovers is that he tries to exploit her as a woman to complete his deals, and resort to Mahrous after his release from prison to help her get rid of him.

Al'astaa maharuws

1990

The Captain Has Arrived poster
NR

Sayed is a businessman afflicted with schizophrenia. When his nephew Mahrous comes from his hometown to oversee the institution he owns, Sayed's business manager Raafat tries to exploit Mahrous' naiveté and plots to sabotage Sayed's new projects.

The Captain Has Arrived

1991

1980s · 28 titles

افتح المحضر poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

افتح المحضر

1986

Asfoor we Daboor poster
NR

The plot revolves around their attempts to be together. Farouk, seeking to find a way to Shiki’s heart, plays the rebab, but his efforts are in vain. In the end, he decides to take his own life, but even that brings him no relief. In the finale, the couple realizes that their love was just an illusion created by the music, and they decide to part ways for good.

Asfoor we Daboor

1989

Conqueror of the Knights poster
NR

The film follows the dramatic and suspenseful love story of Mokhtar and Rawda, who decide to get married despite Rawda’s father Fares refusing to approve of their marriage. After the wedding, Fares is kidnapped for ransom. When Mokhtar succeeds in rescuing him, Fares changes his mind and finally agrees to the marriage.

Conqueror of the Knights

1988

The Beggar poster
6.4

After failing to find stable work in Cairo, Hassanein joins a group of beggars and unwittingly becomes involved with a corrupt businessman who suspects him of being a police informant.

The Beggar

1983

The Minister Is Coming poster
7.0

The film deals with administrative corruption in government departments in a comic framework through the willingness of one of the departments to summon a number of comparators to perform a charade during the minister's visit to the authority

The Minister Is Coming

1986

The Bus Driver poster
7.7

A father loses his carpentry workshop after his son-in-law stops paying taxes regularly. His son Hassan, a bus driver, struggles hard to save his father’s workshop, while the daughters try to replace it with a new project inspired by the “Infitah” era.

The Bus Driver

1982

A File in Vice poster
6.2

Said the officer in Vice Squad is shocked by the decision of his boss to stop the investigation into the case of Alia Hanim because of her connections with officials and turns into a rigid person. When Said has information that some women visit a flat and practice fornication , he tries to prove the charge against them even by falsification.

A File in Vice

1986

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

Banat Haretna poster
NR

The film revolves around Aziza, Gamalat and Lawahez (Boussy, Elham Shaheen and Dalal Abdel Aziz), three friends from a working-class neighborhood who work in the bag trade with Mrs. Nazaga. A disagreement occurs between them and they leave work with her, so a famous bag trader and her assistant Harbi exploit them to travel to Europe under the pretext of buying evening dresses. In reality, drugs are smuggled in their bags without their knowledge, and on one of their trips they are arrested.

Banat Haretna

1987

Poor But Happy poster
NR

Hossam is an accountant at El Mellawany factory, manipulating the accounts with the factory manager Shawki for embezzling the funds, appointing Adel in the factory and discovering the deviation of his friend Hassan. Also in his love is the daughter of the ill-tempered Mellawani Najla Hassan and Shouki are plotting just for refusing to join them in their deviation. Admits himself to save Hossam, but the driver Saadallah reveals a fair innocence after he confesses them. Najla collapses and moves to the hospital. Adl and donate to her with his blood, make sure of the loyalty of his loyalty and marry Adel from his lover.

Poor But Happy

1986

A Night When the Moon Cried poster
6.0

Famous singer Hanan's car breaks down, and she meets Ahmed who drives her with his car. Because Ahmed dreams of having a theater, he decides to take advantage of Hanan's growing feelings towards him and marries her to help him with his dream. But a surprise changes everything, messing up his plans.

A Night When the Moon Cried

1980

House of the Poisoned Family poster
NR

Sina' learns of the numerous affairs her husband Shakir has had with other women. At this time, she gets to know Hashem, and they become increasingly close. Hashem learns of the dysfunctions within Sina’’s family and tries to take advantage of this for his own interests, specially after meeting Arfan, the husband of Sina’s sister. Arfan uses Sina’s sister’s money for his own projects, and tries to pressure his daughter Hoda into marrying a rich Arab man.

House of the Poisoned Family

1986

Lial poster
4.0

Naima escapes from her stepfather's house, and works in Sherazade's nightclub who gives her the artistic name 'Layal' and she becomes a famous dancer. She falls in love with journalist Galal and hopes to marry him.

Lial

1982

El Soghayara poster
5.0

The story of the small play revolves around the husband’s preoccupation with his wife and daughter, because of work, money collection, and his friend who suffers from his wife’s preoccupation with him all the time to take care of her public and external appearance without caring for him.

El Soghayara

1982

A Warm Winter Night poster
8.2

Sara and Mohy hold the Koran and then travel with her father, the great contractor Mounir Rahmi to Aswan.There she discovers that her father does not want to complete the wedding procedures and seeks to marry her to another young man she does not like.He flies to Cairo. After the father announces a financial reward for those who find it, Mamdouh makes sure that Sarah exchanges feelings of love and agree to marry after trying to convince Mohi divorce.

A Warm Winter Night

1981

Hob Wa Takhshiba poster
NR

(Al-Darmali) asks for a gift from (Safwat) to give it to his fiancee, so he involves (Safwat) in dealing with (Badawi) the dealer of stolen goods, then the events escalate to (Al-Darmali) be involved in events in which he did not expect to be involved.

Hob Wa Takhshiba

1987

Love Alone is Not Enough poster
NR

A young couple tries to make a living through freelance. The woman meets her former classmate who became a rich widow and asks for her help to find them better jobs.

Love Alone is Not Enough

1981

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

Wesh El Saad poster
NR

Directed by: Saeed Madbouly (Director) Muhammad Al Sharif (Director) Written by: Naguib Najm (Author) Ahmed Helmy (Author)

Wesh El Saad

1987

El Shaweesh Hassan poster
NR

Hassan Shawish simple hope to find an apartment and marry his fiancée, which competes to win her cousin is well. In his work, he has to sneak into a drug gang and his life changes afterwards.

El Shaweesh Hassan

1988

They are Gang, Dad poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

They are Gang, Dad

1982

No artwork available
NR

Mohsen and Dalia, a married couple, move into a new apartment after living in a series of furnished rentals. They’re happily married and nothing seems to disturb their peace. They then invite the other residents in the building to change their stressful, unhappy lives into happier ones. The wives welcome the idea, but the husbands refused such invitation, they turn it down.

The Mad Man

1988

Wanted Dead or Alive poster
NR

The policeman, Shaaban, brings the thief Hamed, who is accused of stealing a bag full of jewels from the court, to a Cairo prison. However, Hamed manages to escape and Shaaban stays on his tail.

Wanted Dead or Alive

1984

Stranger In My House poster
6.2

Shehata Abu Kaff, goes to Cairo to play for Zamalek club. The club buys him an apartment, but the owner sells the apartment to him and to another lady.

Stranger In My House

1982

Eayilat mushaghibatan jdana poster
NR

Three brothers live with their wives in one villa, Dr. Saeed, Salama and Saadoun. The family is surprised by someone knocking on the door of the villa at dawn and placing a baby in a basket in front of them, along with a letter addressed to the cheating lover whose name begins with the letter S. Thus, the accusation is directed at all the husbands. The wives suspect their husbands. A gang is monitoring the villa in order to kidnap the child, and there is a woman monitoring the villa.

Eayilat mushaghibatan jdana

1989

Ramadan On The Volcano poster
6.1

Ramadan is a poor young employee who wants to marry his fiancée Alia but can't afford it. He plans to steal and hide the employees' salary bag, then turn himself in and serve his sentence so that he can get married after. Upon his release, he finds out that another gang stole the money bag.

Ramadan On The Volcano

1985

The Train poster
6.5

A train driver kills his wife for cheating on him with his assistant whom he tries to kill as well. They get into a fight and fall from the train, leaving the panicked passengers heading to a disaster.

The Train

1986

El Sa'ayda Gom poster
NR

Mansour, the son of the governor of Naja Hammadi, who returns from abroad with checks, money and dollars abroad, is easily located in the hands of the three gangs, Salah, Abbas and Ashgan. Ashghan and her colleague Abbas waited at the airport door,

El Sa'ayda Gom

1989

1970s · 14 titles

أولاد الحلال poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

أولاد الحلال

1978

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

And The Time passed poster
NR

Madbouly works at Al-Basha mansion with his wife and two sons. Al-Basha has a playboy son named Mohsen who commits a murder and asks his father to find someone to take the fall instead of him. He negotiates with Madbouly to go to prison instead of Mohsen in exchange for money . Madbouly agrees and events escalate.

And The Time passed

1975

My Wife & the Dog poster
7.4

Chief Morsy is a lightkeeper staying at a faraway lighthouse. He marries So'aad and shortly returns to the lighthouse where he recounts to Nour his adventures with women. When he sends his wife a letter with Nour, Morsy grows suspicious of his wife's fidelity. Suspicions nourished by his jealousy.

My Wife & the Dog

1971

Life Cabaret poster
NR

Ahmed, a taxi driver, returns a forgotten handbag to Yasmine, a nightclub singer, earning her gratitude. As she's pressured by her boss and pursued by Mokhtar, her son Ezzat runs away. Bringing Ezzat back, draws Ahmed and Yasmine closer.

Life Cabaret

1977

The Lucky Groom poster
NR

Farid is a student at the College of Veterinary Medicine. He has a love story with Samira, his cousin. Three girls are trying to obtain a marriage contract to guarantee a job outside Egypt, but they can only find Farid. Farid marries the four of them, including the club owner, under the urging of his financial circumstances.

The Lucky Groom

1974

Forbidden at the Wedding Night poster
6.9

Zarifa objects the marriage of her daughter Mona from Tahsin, as she wants her married to a wealthy man, while Ashour, Mona's father, supports the marriage. Zarifa dies, and Ashour, Mona and Tahsin settle on a wedding date, only to see Zarifa's spirit appearing to them trying to spoil their plans.

Forbidden at the Wedding Night

1975

Take Care of Your Neighbors poster
6.5

A married couple on their honeymoon lives in an eccentric apartment as they discover that they have peculiar neighbors who share their apartment illegally. The double stay at the apartment brings a series of ironic events.

Take Care of Your Neighbors

1979

Behold How Bold Is Sokkar poster
NR

The orphan little girl Sokar lives with the gang headed by Atris and Zakia who train children to beg and pickpocket. Atris tells Zakia that Sokar is the daughter of a wealthy man and that her uncle incited Atris to get rid of her to inherit his brother. What will become of the poor girl?

Behold How Bold Is Sokkar

1977

Beware, Gentlemen poster
4.5

Antar, the poor garbageman, falls in love with the daughter of a prominent lawyer, who is a resident at one of the buildings he's working in. Thinking that she's a maid, he proposes to her but her father insults him and throws him out. Antar decides to take revenge in his own way.

Beware, Gentlemen

1978

Watch Out for Zuzu poster
4.7

A girl leaves behind her past life as a dancer working in Mohammed Ali Street and enters college. Her ambition is to acquire knowledge and to leave behind her former life. She finds herself in a relationship with a young man from an affluent background and thus becomes conflicted between her two lives.

Watch Out for Zuzu

1972

I Want a Solution poster
7.5

It is impossible to live between Doria and her diplomatic husband, Medhat, who asks him for a divorce, but he refuses. She is forced to go to court and file a divorce. Doria falls into the maze of the courts and is exposed to a series of problems and obstacles that undermine her dignity. Things get complicated when the husband comes with false witnesses testifying against her in secret. She loses her case after more than four years.

I Want a Solution

1975

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

Be Good to Your Parents poster
NR

Saber works as a courier in a government department. He seeks to raise the amount of embezzlement, so as not to imprison his son.

Be Good to Your Parents

1976

Series credits

Abo El-Ela 90 poster
NR

The idealistic rural man Abo El-Ela resumes his journey with his family, as he struggles to fight corruption and greed around him while trying to keep his loved ones away from trouble.

Abo El-Ela 90

1996

اجري ..اجري ..اجري poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

اجري ..اجري ..اجري

2002

النوّة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

النوّة

1991

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

The Excavator poster
NR

As the Israeli forces occupy Sinai prior to the War of Attrition, they use an excavator to dig deep in the land, under the pretext they're searching for oil. When the Egyptian authorities discover their true intentions, they try to stop the excavator from reaching Bab El-Mendab.

The Excavator

1996

The Fortune and the Progeny poster
8.4

Youssef Ibn Abbas wants to marry Salama's daughter Ferial, but they clash with the family's rejection despite the strong friendship between Abbas and Salama. Youssef discovers that his father and Salama were working for Khawaja raising his wealth from smuggling antiquities outside Egypt, after Al-Khawaja's death, he takes the money while Abbas refrains and tries to keep his children away from Salama's sons.

The Fortune and the Progeny

1992

A Very Crazy Family poster
NR

A social drama that depicts the life of the family of Hob, a bank manager, and his wife Wahba, a housewife, in a family setting that reflects their struggles with their children and their families, as well as many comic situations that occur along the way.

A Very Crazy Family

2007

Homeless Kids poster
NR

As a senior at the AUC prepares his graduation project about street children, he meets a homeless girl who offers him a unique insight into the lives and problems of street children, and the factors that made them what they are.

Homeless Kids

2006

Mr. Abo El-Ela El-Beshry's Journey poster
NR

Mr. Abo El-Ela El-Beshry carries a lot of good values for a life that is close to the utopian city. When he retires, he decides to live his life helping his relatives after he adopts the daughter of a friend from work and goes to Cairo.

Mr. Abo El-Ela El-Beshry's Journey

1986

قط وفار فايف ستار poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

قط وفار فايف ستار

2000

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

عباسية واحد

1997

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ناس و ناس

1989

Forgive me, I didn't mean to poster
NR

The husband of the businesswoman (Gulnar) dies in a plane crash, and she later discovers that he is married to her close friend. She suffers a nervous breakdown that leads to her being admitted to the hospital. Then she marries (Marzouq), the accountant in her company, and then problems occur between them and events unfold.

Forgive me, I didn't mean to

1999

Spider poster
NR

A young scientist arrives in an Egyptian village as a series of mysterious murders occurs, with each victim found decapitated.

Spider

1973

No artwork available
NR

The mother separates from her husband and a divorce occurs between them, so the mother takes one of the twin sisters, and the father takes the other. The two sisters grow up far from each other, and each of them develops a different personality from the other as a result of the separation of the father and mother, so one of them is dominated by feelings of selfishness and greed, while the other sister works hard in her education and tries to achieve her ambitions.

Girls of My Life

2007

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

واحدة واحدة يا غزال

1997

Talamith Akher Zaman poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Talamith Akher Zaman

2001