On Birthday Anniversary... Know Facts about Mahmoud Awad

Ahmed Emam

Today Jun.13, marks the birthday anniversary of late actor Mohamed Awad.

Awad's comic timing and acting are known and appreciated by the audience. The charismatic actor-comedian has induced fits of laughter among many Arab generations and many more to come.

The late star became a comedy icon through his performance on screen, with a career spanning more than four decades.

Twenty-two years passed since the death of the comedian actor on 27 February 1997. Awad was one of Egypt’s most memorable and remarkable actors during the second half of the 20th century.

Born as Mohamed Mohamed Awad Yossif. He is known for appearing in over 150 films, series, and plays. He was born in the Abbaseya district in Cairo on 12 July 1932. He got a degree in literature from Ain Shams University in 1957.

In 1962, Awd received a diploma in theatrical arts from the High Institute of Theatrical Arts.

Indeed, his talents appeared in his early childhood and he continued practicing during his university years.

Later on, the ambitious young man joined the television’s theatrical team, where his fame started with the play “Lady Golfedan”. After this successful play, he started his career in the cinema.

While Awad gained stage experience at the beginning of the sixties, his unique elements were the standard features of the Egyptian theatre renaissance of the mid-sixties, at the time of television theatre companies, and the beginning of the United Artists Company.

The veteran late actor is well known for his seminal television series such as Al Parari Wal Hamool, Bent El Hetta, Ahlan YaGedoo Aziz, Borg El Haz. Some of his plays were Al Abeet, Massa El Kheir Ya Masr, Motreb El Awatef, Asl We Soora, Mogrem Raghm Anfo, Al Tartoor.

Awad was married to a woman of Turkish origin called Qout ELqloob and they over three decades had three children, Adele Atif and Alaa, all of them working in cinema.