Google Doodle Celebrates Egyptian Iconic Actor Mahmoud Abdel Aziz

On Saturday, Google honored the iconic Egyptian actor Mahmoud Abdel Aziz with a Google Doodle to celebrate the legendary actor's birthday.

Mahmoud Abdel Aziz is one of a kind actor who had a unique style. His appearance in any film is a guarantee of its quality.

For his audience, Abdel Aziz is “the delectation maker” whose performance always spreads cheerfulness no matter what role he plays.

Google commemorates his birthday which falls on June 4.

Abdel Aziz was born in the Wardeyan neighborhood in Alexandria on June 4, 1946, to a middle-class family.

He graduated from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at Alexandria University in the 1960s. Abdel Aziz first practiced acting in the university's theater.

He started his professional acting career in the 1970s’ with “Al-Dawama” (The Whirlpool) soap opera alongside the famous actors Nelly and Mahmoud Yassin; this series drew much attention to Abdel Aziz's talent.

In 1974, he participated in the Egyptian classic film “Al-Hafeed” (The Grandson) which was his first movie.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Abdel Aziz's popularity dramatically increased as he starred in over 25 movies.

He was famous to be equally deft at both comedy and drama performances, and his success reached its peak when he performed in a group of the most significant movies in the 1980s.

In 1982, he participated in the magnificent movie “El-Aar” (Shame) playing the role of the addiction specialist who is torn between his work and the fact that his father was a drug dealer.

One of Abdel Aziz's unforgettable cinematic marks is his role in “El-Keif” (Addiction) in 1985.

In this movie, Abdel Aziz performed the role of a singer who has a cacophonic voice yet his substandard songs still achieve booming success.

Salah, Abdel Aziz's character, succeeded with the help of his brother, a chemist, to invent a substance that is similar to drugs, proving that people get addicted to the idea of being drugged rather than to the drug itself.

Abdel Aziz asserted his fame in all Arab countries after his role in “Raafat el-Hagan," one of the most popular series in Egyptian television history.