Mahmoud Ismail

Mahmoud Ismail (1914–1983; محمود إسماعيل) was an Egyptian actor of stage and film, a screenplay writer, and a film director. Ismail worked on more than 40 film projects, including acting in some twenty five films and six television series.

Biography
Ismail began his artistic career as a theater actor in the Egyptian National Theatre Troupe. He was a Sufi, and had lived in the Al-Hussein neighborhood of Cairo.

As an actor in film he frequently worked with film directors Ahmed Badrakhan, Niazi Mostafa,, and Hasan El-Saifi. He often played characters that had a criminal past or villians (such as thieves, thugs, and drug dealers). Ismail disappeared from the film scene for a few years, then returned again to appear on screen intermittently in films and television miniseries’s in the late-1970s and early-1980s. Ismail was also a prolific screenplay writer.

As actor
• The Victory of Youth (1941) (نتصار الشباب)

•  (1942) (على مسرح الحياة (فيلم))

•  (عايدة), directed by Ahmed Badrakhan

•  (1943) (من فات قديمه)

• (1944) (من الجاني), directed by Ahmed Badrakhan

•  (1944) (طاقية الإخفاء), directed by Niazi Mostafa

•  (1944) (ابنتي), directed by Niazi Mostafa

•  (1945) (عنتر وعبلة), directed by Niazi Mostafa

•  (1945) (حسن وحسن), directed by Niazi Mostafa

•  (1945), directed by

•  (1945) (البني آدم), directed by Niazi Mostafa

•  (1946) (عودة طاقية الإخفاء), directed by Mohamed Abdel Gawad

•  (1946) (الأحدب), directed by

•  (1947) (نور من السماء), directed by Hassan Hilmy

•  (1948) (فتنة)

•  (أوعى المحفظة)

•  (1952) (السر في بير), directed by Hassan Hilmy

•  (1953) (حكم الزمان), directed by Henry Barakat

•  (1954) (الفارس الأسود), directed by Niazi Mostafa

• Allah maana (1955) (English: God Is on Our Side ), directed by Ahmed Badrakhan

• Samara (1956 film), directed by Hasan El-Saifi

•  (1956) (زنوبة), directed by Hasan El-Saifi

•  (1956) (النمرود), directed by Atef Salem

•  (1957) (لواحظ), directed by Hassan al-Imam

•  (1957) (طاهرة), directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab

•  (المتهم), directed by

•  (1958) (مهرجان الحب)

•  (توحة), directed by Hasan El-Saifi

•  (1959) (عفريت سمارة), directed by Hassan Reda

•  (1959) (حب ودلع)

•  (1959) (بياعة الورد)

•  (1964) (بنت الحتة), directed by Hasan El-Saifi

•  (الولد الغبي), directed by Madkour Thabit

•  (1980) (بلا خطيئة)

•  (1980) (الدرب الأحمر)

• Lucky Shore (1983) (شاطئ الحظ)

As director
•  (1948) (فتنة)

•  (أوعى المحفظة)

•  (1959) (حب ودلع)

•  (1959) (بياعة الورد)

As screenwriter

 *  (1959) (بياعة الورد)
 *  (1964) (بنت الحتة), directed by Hasan El-Saifi