He married two British sisters and his son is an artist. .. Tales of Abbas Fares

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Wednesday 22 April 2020

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On April 22, 1902, the great artist Abbas Faris, with a strong presence and one of the founders of the art of acting in Egypt, was born Abbas Abbas Faris in the Mughrabalen neighborhood in Cairo.

In this report, we monitor the tales of Abbas Fares:

Christmas tale

No one knows for sure, the true birth date of the late Abbas Fares, some indicate that he was born on April 22, and some say that he was born on January 16, and that it was more likely according to the archive of the Egyptian press, the great artist was born on April 22, but it is agreed that the artist The late died on February 13, 1978.

Technical start:

Abbas Fares started his artistic career with amateur groups, then joined the famous theater group George Abiad, and in this band he proved his artistic talent but he did not achieve any fame, and then he moved to work between a large number of theatrical groups at this time, including: “Naguib Al-Rihani, Egypt Squad, National Squad, “and other teams in Egypt.

With the beginnings of cinema, the star Abbas Fares had a share in the launch, and in 1929 he participated in the movie “Bint El Nil”, written and starred by Aziza Amir, and directed by Omar Wasfi.

Fares presented 150 works between cinema, television and theater, and his last artwork was in 1973, when he participated in the role of “Zaki Salim, Marsa Abu Doma” in the movie “Al-Anid,” starring Farid Shawqi and directed by Hassan Al-Saifi.

– American movie

Fares participated in the famous American movie “Egypt by three” in the role of “Sheikh”, directed by Victor Satloff, and played the role of the film’s famous artist Joseph Coutin, and participated with Fares artist Hassan Al-Baroudi and artist Mahmoud Al-Melegy.

Jamal Fares

Perhaps not many people know that the artist Abbas Fares is the father of the artist Jamal Fares, perhaps because Jamal Fares did not gain the fame of his father, perhaps because he did not continue to act, as Jamal presented some films such as “The prestige of the Queen of Gypsies, Honor Ghali, Gram Night.”

For his early retirement, the history of Jamal Fares Film has 7 films, most of which were shared by his father, the artist Abbas Fares.

Love’s beauty story

Jamal had an emotional relationship with “Barbara”, the free artist Rushdie Abaza, the foreign mother of his daughter Taksim, and ended up with Jamal’s marriage to Barbara, and Jamal traveled with her to Britain, and he lived with her in London, where he founded together an advertising company, until he passed away outside Egypt in 1983 .

Abbas Fares with Najeeb al-Rihani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHVsnU5uOyo

Women in the life of Abbas Fares

The great artist Abbas Fares, according to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas, married a British woman after stipulating that she should convert to Islam as a condition of marrying him, so she agreed immediately, and declared her Islam, and came with him to Egypt, and gave birth to his son Jamal, and Abbas Fares taught her himself Islam.

Abbas Fares’ wife died, so he married his sister after converting to Islam as well, she lived with him and raised her sister’s son, as she gave birth to his second son Islam.

The death of Abbas Fares

He spent 5 years without any work, at that time he specialized in calling to God, and he went to cafes and clubs calling people to the Islamic religion. Abbas Faris was a mystic, leaving the Qur’an only in front of the camera.

In his late days, he suffered from loneliness and neglect until he died alone in his house in Abbasiya in 1978, 5 years before the death of his son Gamal.

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