Kamal El Sheikh

Biography

Egyptian director, editor and producer, born on February 5, 1919 in the village of (Amrous), Menoufia Governorate. He got his baccalaureate (high school) certificate in 1937, and he joined the College of Law (Law), but he was a general who left it and started in this period his passion for cinema and decided to become an actor so he sent his photo to the famous director (Muhammad Karim) who did not find his face fit to be an actor, so the Sheikh took advantage of his relationship At the time, the Minister of War (Haider Pasha) to mediate with him in order to enter the cinematic milieu, and he introduced him to the poet (Khalil Mutran), who in turn knew him on the director (Ahmed Salem), who was then director of (Studio Egypt), so he joined him as a montier under the direction of the director (Niazi Mustafa). During that period, Kamal Al-Sheikh participated as a monteire in several important films such as: (Laila Bint Al-Fakra) 1945, (My Heart Delilah) 1947, (Ghazal Al-Banat) 1949, (Avocato Madiha) 1950, and (The emergence of Islam) 1951. 1952 witnessed Kamal Al-Sheikh directing his first movie entitled (Home No. 13) starring: (Imad Hamdi, Faten Hamama), which achieved great succ…

Directed

1. The Thief and the Dogs (1962) — Director
2. Life or Death (1954) — Director
3. Rise to the Abyss (1978) — Director
4. Miramar (1969) — Director
5. The Last Night (1963) — Director
6. Sayedat el kasr (1958) — Director
7. Sunset and Sunrise (1970) — Director
8. The Peacock (1982) — Director
9. Whom Should We Shoot? (1975) — Director
10. Unfaithful (1965) — Director
11. Angel and Devil (1960) — Director
12. Love and Tears (1955) — Director
13. House No. 13 (1952) — Director
14. Traders of Death (1957) — Director
15. The Man Who Lost His Shadow (1968) — Director
16. The Well of Deprivation (1969) — Director
17. Land of Dreams (1956) — Director
18. Love and the Death Penalty (1956) — Director
19. Time Conqueror (1987) — Director
20. For the Sake of a Woman (1959) — Director
21. Land of Peace (1957) — Director
22. Something in my Chest (1971) — Director
23. A Plot (1953) — Director
24. The Stranger (1956) — Director
25. My Only Love (1960) — Director
26. For My Love (1959) — Director
27. I Won't Confess (1961) — Director
28. The Little Devil (1965) — Director
29. The Vandals (1967) — Director
30. الملاك الصغير (1957) — Director
31. The Fugitive (1974) — Director
32. Qalb Yahtarek (1959) — Director
33. The Devil Makes Three (1978) — Director