| Mahmoud Ismail | |
| Native Name: | محمود إسماعيل |
| Native Name Lang: | ar |
| Birth Date: | 18 March 1914 |
| Birth Place: | Kingdom of Egypt |
| Death Date: | 27 January 1983 |
| Death Place: | Egypt |
| Nationality: | Egyptian |
| Occupation: | Actor, film director, screenplay writer |
Mahmoud Ismail (1914–1983;) 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.[1]
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.[2]
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 villains (such as thieves, thugs, and drug dealers).[3] 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.[4] Ismail was also a prolific screenplay writer.