Rushdy Abaza Explained

Rushdy Abaza
Birth Name:Rushdy Said Bughdady Abaza
Birth Date:3 August 1926
Birth Place:Zagazig, Kingdom of Egypt
Death Place:Cairo, Egypt
Years Active:1948–1980
Honours:
Order of Sciences and Arts
Height:1.82 m
Children:1 (daughter)
Education:Collège Saint Marc

Rushdy Saiid Bughdadi Abaza (رشدي سعيد بغدادي أباظة) (3 August 1926 – 27 July 1980) was an Egyptian film and television actor. He was considered one of the most charming actors in the Egyptian film industry. He died of brain cancer at the age of 53.[1]

Rushdy Abaza is "widely considered one of the greatest names in the history of Arab cinema", with no less than 150 movies to his name.

Family

Rushdy Abaza was born in Sharqia, Egypt, to an Italian mother, Teresa Luigi, and an Egyptian father, Saïd Abaza; belonging to one of Egypt's most well-known families, the Abaza family, who are of maternal-Circassian heritage.[1] "[Acting] was not allowed in ...[his] aristocratic family...and his father and the entire Abaza family strongly objected ...[but] he insisted."

He is the best known family member and a household name in the Arab world.[2] [3]

Rushdy attended school at Collège Saint Marc in Alexandria. From his father's side he had three half-sisters, Ragaa, Mounira, Zeinab and one half-brother, Fekri (an actor). From his mother's side, he had one half-brother, Hamed. His only child is a daughter, Qismat (Eismat).

Marriages

Filmography

He appeared in more than 100 films from 1948 until 1980; the year of his death.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rushdi Abaza, AlexCinema. www.bibalex.org.
  2. Web site: 2022-05-18 . كانت البلياردو سبباً لدخوله عالم الشهرة وكاد يصل إلى العالمية.. كل ما تود معرفته عن دنجوان السينما المصرية رشدي أباظة! . 2024-03-07 . أراجيك - Arageek . ar.
  3. Web site: Jalal . Maan . 2022-08-03 . Rushdy Abaza: remembering the prolific actor who played a starring role in Arab cinema . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240219203122/https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/film/2022/08/03/rushdy-abaza-remembering-the-prolific-actor-who-played-a-starring-role-in-arab-cinema/ . 19 February 2024 . 2024-02-29 . The National . en.
  4. News: Sabah - obituary. 2014-12-01. 2017-11-10. en-GB. 0307-1235.
  5. https://najatalsaghira.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/the-magnificent-najat-al-saghira/