Ibrahim ElShamy

(1920 - 1990)

An Egyptian actor, born in 1920 in the village of Abu Sir in Gharbia Governorate, obtained a diploma of industrial high school, then worked with a maintenance weapon in the army, and then moved to reside in the Al-Hussein neighborhood in Cairo, began his relationship with art through his hobby of religious theater, then moved to the national theater where Fattouh mandated him and participated in a number of plays, including (the return of the absent, Qambiz), before he moved to work in the cinema where his first movie (Amal) was in 1952, after which his works between cinema, theater and television came to follow, among his most prominent works (the second wife, the execution of a dead, Battalion of execution), and passed away in 1990 in Cairo Governorate.