Yehia Chahine

Yehia Chahine
يحيى شاهين
Born
Yehia Yehia Hasan Chahine

(1917-07-28)28 July 1917
Imbabah, Egypt
Died18 March 1994(1994-03-18) (aged 76)
Egypt
NationalityEgyptian
Occupation(s)Film actor, producer

Yehia Chahine (Arabic: يحيى شاهين, Yeḥyā Shāheen) (28 July 1917 – 18 March 1994) was an Egyptian film producer and an actor of film and theatre. He is most notable for his role in the Egyptian Cinema's film adaptations of the Cairo Trilogy, a trilogy written by the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz.