Cairo (AFP)
The actor Hassan Hosni, one of the icons of the Egyptian comedy, died Saturday 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 then died of a heart attack yesterday night (Friday to Saturday)," said Achraf Zaki, president of the union.
In his nearly 60-year career, Mr. Hosni has appeared in hundreds of plays, films and soap operas, the latest of which was released during Ramadan 2020, the flagship season of family comedy.
Although he has always played secondary roles, Mr. 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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