Abdel Meguid Shukry
Know for: Acting
Born: 1890-02-03
Place of birth: Egypt
Also know as:
Qais and Laila (1939)
Qais recites poems about his love for his cousin Laila. Ghabeer, Qais' rival in Laila's love, commissions the poet Mamoun to compose obscene poems...
Cairo-Baghdad (1947)
One of the earliest Iraqi films, the plot revolves around a young Iraqi man working as a writer who flees to Cairo after being accused of murdering...
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1942)
Ali Baba lives in poverty while his brother Qasim lives a wealthy life. One day Ali Baba discovers a secret cave which contains countless treasures....
The Flirtation of Girls (1949)
Hamam is a poor Arabic language teacher who gets sacked from a girls' elementary school for not being able to control mischievous students. He feels...
Dananeir (1940)
A concubine to a ruling family is challenged when the family is overthrown.
The Black Market (1945)
A corrupt grocer in a traditional Cairene neighborhood enters into an alliance with comprador merchants. Their goal is to hoard scarce commodities...
The Public Prosecutor (1946)
A tough-on-crime public prosecutor's world is turned upside down when his son is accused of murdering a dancer.
Long live women! (1944)
Three young men boycott their fiancées following a dispute between them and them, in an attempt to live without women. They think that by...
Layla in the dark (1944)
Hussein and Laila are children who pledge to love. Circumstances separate them and they meet after they grow up and their feelings are renewed, but...
The Straight Road (1943)
A good man who loves his family and devotes himself to taking care of them. A woman intercepts him and takes him into her love. This changes his...
Leila, ghadet el camelia (1942)
A night film adapted from the story of Ghada al-Kamiliya produced in 1942 and directed by Togo Mizrahi
Passion and Revenge (1944)
A woman seeks revenge on the man she thinks killed her husband but falls in love with him in the process.
Ambassador of Hell (1945)
The devil appears to a poor family, incarnated in a wealthy man who offers them a large fortune. The life of excess spoils the family and breaks up...
bihubh fi baghdad (1942)
Al-Usta (Bahbah), the barber, lives in the city of Baghdad, and one of his customers, Sheikh (Makhlouf), tells him: Shahbandar al-Tajjar said that he...
Yasmine (1950)
Yasmine is the daughter of a wealthy man who was not interested in females, so he left her at the door of an orphanage. She grows up in the...
Faeil Khayr (1953)
A poor young man loves art and music. There is a love relationship between him and a rich girl. This girl appreciates his art and creation. Her...
The Wedding (1933)
Directed by Fatma Rouchdi.
Heaven's Justice (1948)
An honest employee finds himself in a tough situation when he is accused of killing his manager due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time....
Hymn of Hope (1937)
Directed by Ahmed Badrakhan.
The Life of Darkness (1940)
A middle-class family. The son gets a law degree and wants his son to be a lawyer, but the son wants to be a novelist. The son is surrounded by bad...
Nehayet Qessa (1951)
The work deals with the story of a young writer who writes a story about a girl who loves her cousin and seeks to marry him, but her father opposes...