| Tewfik Saleh | |
| Birth Date: | 27 October 1926 |
| Birth Place: | Alexandria |
| Death Date: | 18 August 2013 |
| Death Place: | Cairo |
| Nationality: | Egyptian |
| Occupation: | film director and writer |
| Notable Works: | Struggle of the Heroes |
Tewfik Saleh (Arabic: توفيق صالح) was an Egyptian film director and writer. His name has also been written as Tawfik Saleh and Tewfiq Salah.[1]
Saleh was born on 27 October 1926, in Alexandria. Although his father was against his interest in movies, he still considered movies to be his major interest. In 1949, he graduated from Victoria College of Alexandria.[2] He died on 18 August 2013 in Cairo.[3]
His first film was Fools' Alley (1955), co-written by Naguib Mahfouz, the Egyptian Nobel laureate in Literature. Saleh's other movies include Struggle of the Heroes (Sirâ’el abtâl) (1962) and The Rebels (el Moutamarridoun) (1968)[4] among others.