Egypt loses one of its most famous faces. This Saturday, the actor Hassan Hosni, one of the icons of the Egyptian comedy, died at the age of 89 in Cairo, announced the national union of the actors. "He was admitted to hospital the day before yesterday [Thursday] and died of a heart attack yesterday [Friday to Saturday]," said union president Achraf Zaki.
In nearly 60 years of career, Hassan Hosni has appeared in hundreds of plays, films and serials, the last of which was broadcast during the month of Ramadan 2020, the flagship season of family comedies. Although he has always played secondary roles, Hassan Hosni has become, over the years, one of the emblematic faces of Egyptian comedy throughout the Arab world.
From the late 1990s, he participated, as a producer in particular, in the emergence of a new generation of actors (Ahmed Helmi, Mohamed al-Henedi, Mohamed Saad and Ramez Galal, among others) who are today among the big names in the Egyptian cinematographic and audiovisual landscape.
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