Youssef Wahbi

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Youssef Wahbi
يوسف وهبي
Born	Youssef Abdullah Wahby Qotb (1902-07-14)14 July 1902 Fayoum, Egypt
Died	17 October 1982(1982-10-17) (aged 80) Cairo, Egypt
Nationality	Egyptian
Occupation	Actor • director • producer
Years active	1932–1978

Youssef Abdallah Wahbi Qotb (Arabic: يوسف عبد الله هديب وهبي قطب) (14 July 1902 – 17 October 1982) was an Egyptian stage, film actor and director, a leading star of the 1930s and 1940s and one of the most prominent Egyptian stage actors of all time, who also served on the jury of the Cannes Film Festival in 1946. He was born to a high state official in Egypt but renounced his family's wealth and traveled to Rome in the 1919 to study theatre, married with Elena Lunda. Besides his stage work, he acted in around 50 films in Egyptian cinema, starting with Awlad al-Zawat (Sons of Aristocrats, 1932) to "Iskanderiya... lih?" (Alexandria... Why?, 1978).