Biographies: Hussein Al Samraey - Actor

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An Iraqi actor who was born in Baghdad in 1927. In the elementary and middle school stages, he loved sports. He was a member of the Baghdad national football team for the year 1940, and he practiced wrestling and boxing. After graduating from middle school, he began his artistic activity and joined the Institute of Fine Arts. He graduated from the acting department in the late forties and directed several plays, including The Victim by Tagore and Laila's Madman by Ahmed Shawqi. He appeared in the movie Regret, directed by Abdel Khalik Al Samarrai, and he participated with Catherine Youssef in forming the Semiramis Film Company, which produced the film Teswahen, which he wrote, directed, and appeared in. He worked in several official positions, including in the Ministry of Youth, mass culture theaters, as well as radio and television. He worked as a director at the The General Organization for Cinema and Theatre and directed a number of documentaries, including This Is How Basra Will Be as well as Iraq, Ancient and Modern.

• 2 November 2021
• Christina Aziz