Youssef Wahbi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Youssef Wahbi

Egyptian film director and actor

Date of Birth: 14-Jul-1898

Place of Birth: Faiyum, Faiyum Governorate, Egypt

Date of Death: 17-Oct-1982

Profession: actor, performing artist, film director, film actor

Nationality: Egypt

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Youssef Abdallah Wahbi Qotb (Arabic: ???? ??? ???? ???? ???? ????) (Fayoum, Egypt; July 14, 1898 – October 17, 1982) was an Egyptian stage and film actor and director, a leading star of the 1930s and 1940s and one of the most prominent Egyptian stage actors of any era, who also served on the jury of the Cannes Film Festival in 1946.
He was born to a high state official in Egypt but renounced his family's wealth and traveled to Rome in the 1920s to study theatre.
Besides his stage work, he acted in about 50 films, starting with Awlad al-Zawat (Sons of Aristocrats; 1932) to "Iskanderiya...
lih?" (Alexandria...
Why?, 1978).
He died in 1982, sick with arthritis and with a fractured pelvis, survived by his wife.