Egyptian actor Abdel Rahman Abu Zahra dies at 92
Egyptian actor Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra died on Monday (May 11th) at the age of 92 after spending the past few weeks in intensive medical care due to geriatric diseases.
His son, Ahmed Abu Zahra, wrote a comment on Facebook accompanied by a photo of the late artist, saying: "His pure soul ascended to heaven. The one who taught me that religion is the treatment of people and not just appearances, who taught me that saying the word of truth is a sword on the neck no matter what the consequences, that honor, honesty, honesty and diligence are the characteristics of an honest human being, no matter what the challenges and no matter how the time is against him."
He added, "The artist who fought for value and morality died, he lived his whole life upholding the great values of humanity in all his artistic works. The father, the back, the support, the teacher, and the role model are dead."
Egyptian Minister of Culture Gihan Zaki mourned him in a statement in which she said that the deceased "was an authentic son of the Egyptian theater, and one of its prominent symbols, as his name was associated with the National Theater and presented on its stage immortal works that contributed to enriching the cultural and artistic movement," stressing that his departure "represents a great loss to the cultural and artistic arena, due to his unique talent and high human and artistic presence."
A star from the days of the beautiful time
Born in 1934 in the coastal governorate of Damietta to a middle-class family, Abu Zahra moved to Cairo with his father, who worked as an Arabic language teacher, and died early, and his passion for acting began from the school theater, from which he received his first artistic award, and then joined the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts.
He presented dozens of plays with the National Theater, including "The Case", "Al-Mahrousa", "Al-Farafir", "Al-Sabansa", "Bilad Barra", "The Barber of Baghdad", "The Sultan's Game", and "Close and Strange".
He participated in hundreds of TV series, including (Al-Wasiya), (Al-Tariq), (Al-Zeini Barakat), (Omar bin Abdulaziz), (Awan Al-Ward), (Agent 1001), (The Warrior's Shadow), (Abed Karman), and (Farah Layla), in addition to drama evenings and radio series.
He made a special mark in the TV drama as Hajj Ibrahim Sardina in the series "I Will Not Live in My Father's Robes", which is based on the story of the writer Ihsan Abdel Quddus and starring Nour Al-Sharif, Abla Kamel and Mustafa Metwally.
In the cinema, he presented the films "The Well of Deprivation", "The Back Streets", "The Truth is Salem", "The Curse", "The Land of Fear", "Love of Girls", "Al-Jazeera", "Artificial Divorce", "Khayal Ma'ata", and others.
He paid great attention to children, so he presented them with series and programs such as "Land of Happiness", "Kan Ya Makan", and "The Most Beautiful Flowers", and participated in voice performances in international animated films for Disney.