1956Winner
Best Performance
The Ten Commandments
Rushdy Abaza
Actor · Producer · Writer
Al Mansoura, Egypt
August 3, 1926
Biography
An Egyptian actor, born in 1926 to an Italian mother and an Egyptian father. He obtained his baccalaureate from St. Mark's College in Alexandria, but did not complete his university studies due to his love of sports. He began his career in cinema when director Barakat assigned him an important role in the film The Little Millionairess in 1948. In 1950, he traveled to Italy for six months hoping to appear in Italian films, but he was not successful there. Among his most important films are: (A Woman on the Road), The Road, The Road of Hope, The Second Man, Struggle on the Nile, There Is a Man in Our House, and Wife No. 13). He died in 1980 after suffering from brain cancer.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1963Nominee
Best Performance
No Time for Love
1954Nominee
Best Performance
Valley of the Kings
Career Highlights
1959Highlight
Best Performance
Conflict in the Nile
1977Highlight
Best Performance
Ah Ya Lail Ya Zaman
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The Ten Commandments
A Man in Our House