Actor
El Hedi ben Salem
Born 1936 · Morocco
El Hedi ben Salem was a Moroccan actor. He is best known as the lover and collaborator of provocative German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He died while in prison. Fassbinder dedicated his last film, Querelle (1982), to Salem. In 2012, a documentary on Salem's life entitled My Name Is Not Ali, premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival.
Acting
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Ali · 1974
Fox and His Friends
Salem the Moroccan (uncredited) · 1975
World on a Wire
Bodyguard · 1973
Martha
Hotel Guest · 1974
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Araber · 1972
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
Dunkelhäutiger Arbeiter · 1972
When Fear Eats the Soul
Ali (archive footage) · 2007
Tenderness of the Wolves
Französischer Soldat · 1973
My Name Is Not Ali
Self (archive footage) · 2011
Like a Bird on a Wire
Bodybuilder · 1975