Biographies: Hamoudi Al Harthy - Actor

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An Iraqi actor, born in Baghdad in 1936. He joined the Institute of Fine Arts, where he left the Department of Sculpture and Painting and devoted himself to acting and directing from 1958 to 1961 then studied art and film directing for two years in France from 1964 to 1965, then studied acting from 1974 to 1981, and was a member of the Iraqi Visual Artists Association. He entered the world of television in the early sixties through the comedy series Under the Barber's Razor. In the mid-sixties, he obtained a master's degree in television directing from Cairo, then a doctorate in directing and production from France. After that, he returned to Iraq to work as a director at the Radio and Television Corporation, where he directed several television and radio programs, such as the famous program Sports in a Week. Upon his return from Cairo in 1981, the Minister of Information at the time asked him to make a second season for the series Under the Barber's Razor, so he suggested that he direct it without acting in it, then it was adapted into a play, which was performed in America in five states in 1978. He also participated in the movie The Cart and the Horse. After the death of his colleague and companion, the artist Salim Albasri, he decided to immigrate. He traveled in 1997 to Jordan, where he stayed for ten months, after which he traveled to the Netherlands to live there permanently. He held over 15 sculpture exhibitions in Dutch cities, as well as in Sweden, Denmark and Germany.

• 22 September 2021
• Dalia Saad