Bishara Wakim بشارة واكيم | |
Birth Name: | Bisharah Yoakim |
Birth Date: | 5 March 1890 |
Birth Place: | Cairo, Egypt |
Death Place: | Cairo, Egypt |
Occupation: | director, actor in 381 films |
Bishara Wakim (Arabic: بشارة واكيم) (March 5, 1890 – November 30, 1949) Egyptian director and actor born in Faggala, Cairo in 1890.
His real name is Bisharah Yoakim educated in Collège-des-Frères (Bab-El-Louk), he was a Greek Catholic, in 1917 graduated from the School of Law and he started his life as a lawyer.
Began his acting career as a member of the Abdul Rahman Rushdi theater group, then a member of George Abiad theater group, then with Egyptian actor Youssef Wahbi in his Ramses theatre group. He then moved to the Mounira El Mahdeya theater as actor, director and technical director.In 1923, Wakim starred in Barsoum Looking for a Job, one of the notable films of the Egyptian silent film era. He was honored by the Egyptian government for his achievements in film and theater, played the role of the Lebanese in most of the Egyptian movies of the thirties and the forties.
Bishara Wakim made about 381 films to the Egyptian cinema. He died on November 30, 1949.