Biographies: Omar El Hariri - Actor

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‘Umar is a cinema and stage actor. His full name is ‘Umar Mohamed Saleh al-Hariri. ‘Umar and Shokry Sarhan were in the same graduating class from the Arab High Institute for Acting in 1947. He worked on Youssif Wahbi’s Ramses theater and Thereafter he worked on the national theater and on other theaters such as the television theater. ‘Umar left Cairo in 1968 to institute the national theater in Benghazi, Libya. He remained there until 1974. The actor then returned to Cairo and worked on the United Artist’s Theater. His first play in that theater was “al-Shahid ma Shafsh Hagga” (“The Witness Saw Nothing”) where he acted alongside ‘Adel Imam. ‘Umar later collaborated with that same actor on “al-Wadd Sayyid al-Shaghal”). He also presented several well known works on cinema and television including “Aghla men ‘Einaih” (“More Precious than his Eyes”), “Ghusn al-Zaitoun” (“Olive Branch”), “Ahl al-Qimma” (“People of the Summit”), “Ahlam al-Fatta al-Tair”, “Alf Layla wa Layla” (“A Thousand and One Nights”) and many other works.

• 15 April 2011
• محمد ألطيب