Today is the 122nd birth anniversary of renowned Arab comedian Abdel-Salam Al-Nabulsy. He was born in Tripoli, Lebanon in 1899 to a well-known Lebanese-Palestinian family.
Al-Nabulsy was expected to follow in his father’s footsteps as a judge in the Sharia courts and became a renowned scholar like his grandfather. Thus, his family sent him to Cairo, where he studied Islamic sciences at Al-Azhar University, and later he took up as Journalist in an Egyptian art magazine called Al-Sabah.
His desire to act in movies took him to the Asia Film Company. When he was offered the opportunity to move to cast a new film, he quit his job and took the plunge as an assistant director on Wadad Orfi's 'Ghada Alsahra' (1929).
Best known for his comedy roles, he is stated to be one of the Arab cinema’s most popular comedians. His acting in comic roles granted him critical and popular acclaim and soon became the leading comedian of his time.
Throughout his successful career, the remarkable actor played the leading man in only six movies, two of which he produced himself. These included Love and Humanness (1956), Ashour the Lionhearted (1961), The Love of My Life (1958), The Women’s Barber (1960), The Girls of Bahari (1960), and The Agony Aunt (1962) which was the last he made in Egypt before moving to Beirut.
Nabulsy formed a popular comic pairing with Ismail Yassin, in the “Ismail Yassin in the Army” style, making the producers use them in several films. Their most famous films together were ‘ Harm Al-Basha' (1946), followed by Mermaid (1947), and Fatma, Marika, and Rachel movie (1948).
His unique sense of humor engraved his love in our hearts despite the fact that it has been over 53 years since his death.
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