The death of the great Egyptian artist Youssef Shaaban

Egyptian media confirmed the death of the great artist Youssef Shaaban, at the age of 90, a short while ago, in a Cairo hospital, after being infected with the Corona virus.
Shaaban was infected with Corona virus last week, and subsequently entered a hospital in Mohandessin, and after his health deteriorated, he was transferred to the intensive care unit at Agouza Hospital.

He was born in the Shubra neighborhood of Cairo in 1936, and his father is a famous advertising designer in the Egyptian Gazette, he received his basic education at the Ismailia School and secondary education in Al-Tawfiqia, and because of his excellence in painting, he decided to join the Faculty of Fine Arts, but his family strongly refused and gave him the choice among the Police College Or the war college.

He started his cinematic career in 1961 with a movie in Our House, A Man with Omar Sharif and Director Barakat, and then his cinematic work went to more than 110 films.

He won many local and international awards, and in 1995 he decided to move away from the cinematic field and settle for one or two series a year to focus on his new mission as a captain of actors.

The late artist presented more than 130 series, most notably the family and people, Shahd and Tears in two parts, The Wedge, and starred in the series Raafat Al Hajjan brilliantly in his performance of the character of Mohsen Mumtaz, and other series that are still stuck in the minds of the Arab audience.

Youssef Shaaban presented a strange series in which he excelled in the Egyptian dialect, which is the Jordanian series Wadha and Ibn Ajlan, which was considered the most watched in the Gulf countries, Jordan and Syria at the time, and was co-starring from Syria Salwa Saeed, and from Jordan Nabil Al-Mashini along with a group of senior Jordanian and Syrian actors.

His wife is the Kuwaiti woman, Iman Khaled Al-Shariaan, and he has a daughter Zainab and his son Murad, and he has a daughter named Sinai from his ex-wife Nadia Ismail Shirin, daughter of Princess Fawzia, bint Fouad I, sister of King Farouk.

Source: RT + Alwakalat+ Wikipedia