FILE - In this June 2004 file photo, Egyptian actor Nour El-Sherif with his "four wives" perform in a scene from the "El-Hagg Metwally" series, being filmed in Cairo, Egypt. Its state news agency said Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015, that well-known Egyptian actor el-Sherif has died. He was 69. El-Sherif's big break was in the late 1960s when he played a supporting role in "The Palace of Desire," the screen adaptation of one of the novels in a trilogy by Egyptian Nobel Prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz. (AP Photo/Nasser Nouri, File)
August 11, 2015 - 9:54 AM
CAIRO - Egypt's state news agency says well-known Egyptian actor Nour el-Sherif has died. He was 69.
The news agency said he died Tuesday after battling an unspecified long illness.
El-Sherif's big break was in the late 1960s when he played a supporting role in "The Palace of Desire," the screen adaptation of one of the novels in a trilogy by Egyptian Nobel Prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz. He went on to become one of the Arab world's top male actors for much of the 1970s and 1980s in the heydays of Egyptian cinema.
One of his later roles was a part in "The Yacoubian Building," a 2006 adaptation of a bestselling novel about Egyptian society and politics.
He was a favourite of Egyptian director Youssef Chahine, playing major roles in his films.
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