Director

Hassan Youssef

Born 1934 · Cairo, Egypt

(Hassan Youssef Hassan) is an Egyptian artist, born in the Sayyida Zeinab neighborhood in Cairo in 1934, graduated from the Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts, and he studied at the College of Commerce in 1955, and after that he worked as an artistic supervisor in the school theater of the Benha Educational District, and in the national theater discovered by the artist (Hussein Riad) He presented him as a new face in the movie (I Am Free) starring Lubna Abdel Aziz in 1959 and played the role of her cousin. After that, he presented several works that brightened his star in the world of art, and the sixties was the stage of his artistic glow. The stars of cinema participated in the championship, the most important of them is Souad Hosni .. At this time he married the artist (Lebleba), then he married the artist (Shams Al-Baroudi) in 1972, He participated in acting in a number of films, and then directed a number of other films for her, including the movie (2 on the road) in 1984 with the star (Adel Imam), which is her last work before announcing her permanent retirement from acting .. and one of his most prominent roles is the role of Adel in the movie (Women Al-Layl) in 1973 .. He retired from acting in 1990, and his last movie was (The Two Sisters) .. Then, in 2003, he returned to art, presenting his most important and most successful television work, which is the series (Imam al-Dawa), in which he embodied the biography of the late Imam Sheikh Muhammad Metwally Al-Shaarawy. After that, he was satisfied with participating in soap operas and television dramas, most of which are religious, but he recently stated that he welcomes any role other than religious works, as long as it is within the framework of clean, purposeful art.