People may come, people may go but their memories stay forever and remain in our minds. This is exactly what happens with legends like Nour El-Sherif, the so-called Master of Drama.
Also known as El-Hag Metwali, Abdel Gafour Bora’ay, and Saad Eldaly, El-Sherif's work has inspired generations of actors. The subtle genius of his series and movies has left a distinctive mark on the Arab world.
El-Sherif, who passed away on 11 August 2015, can’t be viewed as an actor who only succeeded in playing romantic and oppressed characters in Egyptian cinema.
The late actor was really endowed with a special style of performing these kinds of roles that distinguished him from those who made such roles their specialty to the extent that he became the founder of an acting technique emulated by others.
For instance, he acquired an academic qualification and broad artistic culture that helped him more than the others in making good choices and enhancing his performance altogether.
After graduation, he met director Hassan Iman, who was about to shoot ‘Kasr El Shawk’ (The Palace of Desire) (1967), and decided to cast the young handsome man in this film since he believed in his talent.
The remarkable actor was endowed with a special style of performing these kinds of roles that distinguished him from those who made such roles their specialty to the extent that he became the founder of an acting technique emulated by others.
His breakthrough was in the late 1960's when he performed a supporting role in “The Palace of Desire,” the screen adaptation of one of the novels in a trilogy by Egyptian Nobel Prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz.
After that, the remarkable star became one of the Egyptian and Arab world’s top male actors for much of the 1970's and 1980's in the heydays of the Egyptian cinema.
Moreover, El-Sherif is well-known for some of his seminal works, such as (The Wife and the Dog) (Desire),(The Baby Doll Night), (The Yacoubian Building), (I Won’t Live in My Father’s Robes), (Bloody Sunday), ‘El-Hag Metwali’s Family’ and ‘Kasr El Shawk‘.
In 1972, the prominent actor married Egypt’s beautiful actress Poussi and together they had two daughters, Sarah and Mai.
Unfortunately, the pressures of the media and a long-distance relationship caused them to split up in 2006. They, however, decided to get back together in early 2015 during his battle with illness.
Days later, the veteran actor and theater director died aged 69 after a long struggle with lung cancer.
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