Widad Khamis
Tuesday, 06 June 2023 01:00 PM
A long artistic career for more than half a century, led by the great artist Mahmoud El-MeligyToday, the 40th anniversary of his death, where he presented more than 500 artworks between cinema, television and theatre, and his love for acting was great, as his artistic giving continued until his death on June 6, 1983 while filming one of the scenes of his last movie, “Ayoub”, accompanied by Artist Omar Sharif.
Omar Sharif recounted the scenes of the moment of the death of the artist, Mahmoud El-Meligy, during an old meeting, where he said: “He died between Idia and we are alone,” indicating that they had one of the scenes filming the TV movie “Ayoub” in the Night Casino in the pyramid, and after the arrival of “Al-Meligy” and while he was sitting with him. He was surprised by him tilting his head, but at first he thought that he was sick, so he summoned some people from outside to tell him that he had died immediately.
Mahmoud El-Meligy and Omar El-Sharif
Mahmoud El-Melegy was born in 1910 in Cairo, and his origins go back to the village of “Melegy” in Menoufia. At the beginning of his artistic life, he joined the band of the artist Fatima Rushdi, where he performed a number of small roles, and after Fatima Rushdi was convinced of his talent, she nominated him to star in a movie entitled “ Marriage in the Modern Way”, but the failure of the film made him leave the band and join the famous Ramses troupe, where he initially worked as a teleprompter.
Then he became a professional actor, so that he would have his own school of reincarnation, and become a common denominator for all successful works, especially the evil roles that he excelled in presenting, despite the meeting of all his colleagues in the artistic field that he was the best person away from the screen.
It is noteworthy that his most prominent films are: “The Land”, “The Tears Dried Up”, “An Encounter with the Past”, “Crazy by Heredity”, “The Women’s Hunter”, “Love Ended” and “The Search for Trouble”, “I Wish I Hadn’t Known Love”. “Hot Tears is Longing,” “The Return of the Prodigal Son,” “No Time for Tears,” “Goodbye Forever” and “No, You Who Were My Love.” Among his series: Dreams of the Flying Boy, with Adel Emam as guest of honor, and the series Burj Al-Zaht with Mohamed Awad. Al-Ayyam series with the late artist Ahmed Zaki, the Black Cat series.
