Acting
May 16, 1940
El Mansoura, Egypt
Adel Emam
Acting
Biography
Adel Imam is an Egyptian actor known for his long-standing career in comedy and drama. Born on May 17, 1940, in Mansoura, he moved at an early age with his family to Sayeda Zeinab in Cairo. He earned a degree in agriculture from the University of Cairo, where he became active in student theatre. He began his professional acting career in the early 1960s, joining a television troupe and performing in stage plays such as Ana wa Howa wa Heya and Al Nassabin. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Imam gained widespread popularity through iconic stage roles in Madrassat Al Mashaghbeen, Shahid Ma Shafsh Haga, and Al Wad Sayed Al Shaghal. Imam has appeared in over 100 films and numerous television series and plays, often blending comedy with social and political themes. Notable film roles include The Terrorist (1994), Al Zaeem (1993), and The Yacoubian Building (2006), the latter of which became one of the most prominent films in modern Egyptian cinema. In 2000, he was appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), recognizing his influence and humanitarian efforts.
Feature Films (139)
Dr. Sherif is married to the novelist Nana, but he is also having an affair with her friend Laila. When Sherif goes to attend a medical conference, he takes Laila with him and claims that she is his wife. Unbeknownst to him, Nana follows him to reconcile with him after their latest fight.
The Happy Marriage
Amal, who decided to move away from Cairo in an isolated isolation of Saloum in an attempt to escape the anniversary of her fiancé's death in a car accident, combines the playboy teacher Hani who was transferred to Salloum as punishment for his disrespect and misconduct. Their meeting on the Salloum beach, while each meets a different model of human beings in the workplace, Hani meets Saidi Bakri fleeing revenge, and meet the hope of doctor Tariq, who tries to harass them and exploit their unity, will love develop and grow amid this intertwined conditions?
The People Inside
The fugitive Sayed seeks refuge with his uncle who works as a cook for a wealthy family. When the family's daughter gets divorced for the third time, the family enlist Sayed's help to marry her as a mohallel so she could reunite with her husband.
Sayed the Servant Boy
After he gets fired from his job as a teacher, Hamouda works in a company, and soon discovers that the manager is doing illegal work. He's offered to take part in the fraud and scheme, he quickly learns the ropes and becomes wealthy.
Al-modeer Al-Fanni
A government employee named Karim has two beautiful daughters whom he raised well. They are (Karima) and (Hoda). Karima does not care about anything except her clothes and adornments. She hesitates about love and marriage between two people: (Kamal), the wealthy, frivolous young man, and her cousin, the engineer (Ahmed), the ambitious, struggling young man. She pays dearly for her hesitation. Her sister (Hoda) determined the course of her life from the beginning, so she chose to marry her other cousin and start their life together from scratch, a life based on love and familiarity between them.
The Mirror
A group of stage actors who hate Ahmed Aluwi, the rich young man, starts attacking him in the magazines; when Ahemd knows about that, he decides to check the situation himself and he falls in love with one the actress over there; he pretends to be a poor simple actor, just to be near her; she starts responding to him without knowing his true identity.
The Showgirl
The young journalist, Sahar, meets Hussein in London and they return to Egypt, where he meets her father, Asim, the company manager, from whom his twin brother, Sherif, embezzled a large sum of money. After Sherif gets arrested, Hussein tries to sell everything to help him get out of jail.
Who is the Thief Between Us
Two friends Marzouk and Barakat, work with street vendor Batta on her cart in the melon trade. Al-Gayiar who works in the trade of stolen cars admires them, they work with him till they become his competitors. He decides to get rid of them after they've become a treat.
Goodbye My Friend
In 1960s Egypt, a humble flower seller from Alexandria is drawn into a journalist's social experiment: to impersonate a millionaire’s daughter and spend a week living among Cairo’s elite, exposing the stark divide between classes in a rapidly modernizing society.
7 Days in Heaven
Inside the prostitution district of Old Cairo, an honest policeman is appointed to fight corruption and bullying inside the neighborhood, until he falls in love with one of the women there. After a trap is set for him, he gets fired from his job.
Khamsa Bab
Television & Series (14)
Legendary comedian Adel Imam stars as Bahgat, a former government official who finally retires — only to discover that home is its own battlefield. Caught between his jealous, sharp-tongued wife, the endless dramas of his grown-up children and their spouses, and the bewildering world of his grandchildren, Bahgat finds retirement anything but peaceful. A warm, classic Egyptian family comedy built around one of the country's greatest comic performers.
His Excellency
A college professor rebelling on political situations, holds a big governmental position after the revolution, but he gets shocking surprises.
Professor and Head of Department
When a prominent writer finds confidential documents incriminating government officials, he decided to publish them, risking his own life and his family's.
Hidden Worlds
A crook manages to evade capture for a long time as he switches between various identities that make it difficult for the police to catch him. As he is finally caught by the police officer who has spent his life chasing him, both of them are changed forever by a series of events.
The Oracle
A retired Egyptian officer working at the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv decides to plot revenge against Israel for freezing his bank accounts when he objected to its monstrous conduct in Palestine. In Egypt, he recruits five of his former students to rob Israel’s largest bank.
