Farid Shawqy

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Jul 30, 1920 (104 years old)
Death date
Jul 27, 1998

Farid Shawqy

Known For

Like A Matchstick
1h 20m
Movie 2016

Like A Matchstick

A comedic tale created by the late actor Hussein Imam to pay tribute to the stars of the Egyptian cinema in its golden age. The main story is based on mixing scenes of 21-star from black and white period with other scenes written by and starring Imam so that the final product is the rediscovering of old stars in a new context.

The Angry Ones
1h 55m
Movie 1996

The Angry Ones

Shafiq Al-Atr establishes a company to invest money, and smuggles the savings of small depositors abroad, while refusing to return them to them, so that the public prosecutor takes over the investigation. While the majority of depositors surrender to their inevitable fate and wait in silence, five of them refuse to submit and confront Shafiq Al-Atr to recover their money from him at any cost.

لقمة القاضي
TV Show 1996

لقمة القاضي

The Good, the Bad, and the Pretty
1h 40m
Movie 1994

The Good, the Bad, and the Pretty

Adel is an honest secretary at the prosecutor office, while raising his son Ahmad after the death of his wife. When Tamer, the son of a millionaire is arrested for drug addiction, Tamer's lawyer tries bribe Adel to find a way to get him out, but to no avail. In order to change his mind, he uses all ways possible.

إمبراطورية الجيارة
Movie 1994

إمبراطورية الجيارة

A woman pays the price
1h 50m
Movie 1993

A woman pays the price

The singer Nahid marries Youssef who gains from gambling and fraud in sailing lands. Disputes arise between them and they separates, Nahid with her only daughter from him goes to work as a singer since then in amusement parks and weddings.

La ya eunf
1h 40m
Movie 1993

La ya eunf

(Salem) joins the work of the men of the (Balkasi) after he showed his great superiority in the sport of bodybuilding, and after saving his son from a failed kidnapping attempt, at the same time a love story between (Rajab) friend (Salem), who also works at (البلاكسي ), And between (Rania) daughter (Balkasi). Events follow where the wife of the (Balkasi) discover the fact of his marriage to another, and the complexity of things.

Al lo'ba Al Qazera
1h 35m
Movie 1993

Al lo'ba Al Qazera

An honest lawyer who only defends the innocent faces an ethical dilemma when his daughter's boss, a businessman and a smuggler, gets in trouble with the law and wants him and his other daughter, who doesn't share her father's views, to be his lawyers.

The Ship of Love and Torment
1h 35m
Movie 1993

The Ship of Love and Torment

Hassan is accused of murder ,when he comes out of prison,his neighbor Elham secures a job for him in the place where she works. They live together a wonderful love story that ends tragically,when he kills her in the amusement park. He then marries the daughter of the owner of the company, but the truth can't stay hidden forever.

Dilapidated Woman
1h 55m
Movie 1992

Dilapidated Woman

A hooker decides to repent after she gets married and gives birth, but when she discovers that her husband is an addict, she convinces two of her friends to steal some jewelry, but things do not go well after the apartment owner and her child were killed during the robbery. Making her accused of a crime she didn't commit.

Biography

Farid Muhammad Shawqi Abdo was born in Sheikha al-Bagghala in Sayyida Zainab district .. He obtained a diploma of the Institute of Applied Engineering and a diploma in the Institute of Acting and worked in small roles with the artist (Anwar Wagdy), then he began writing cinematic stories for his films and achieved stardom and became known as the King of the Tarso, the monster of the screen, the King . He wrote many film stories, and worked on stage in many of Rihani's plays, such as (Al-Daloua, The Story of Every Day), and he worked in Lebanese, Syrian and Turkish films, including (The Devil of the Bosphorus, Othman Al-Jabbar). And among the series he worked with, (Curmudgeon and Me, the only witness, Saber, Uncle Saber). He married artist Hoda Sultan and they separated in 1969, then he married Suheir Turk later on. He founded the Union of Artists in 1986. He won the State Prize for the story (They Made Me a Criminals) in 1955 and the Production Prize at the Berlin Festival in 1956 for the film (The Fatwa). He won the State Prize for Production in 1962, the Medal of Flag in 1964, and was honored by the Cairo Festival in 1994. He deservedly deserved the title of King of Tiers or King of Cinema, as he is the star who always renewed himself and got rid of stereotypes.

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