Abd al-Salam al-Nabulsi (23 August 1899 - 5 July 1968) was a Palestinian actor. He was born on August 23, 1899 in Tripoli, Lebanon. Nicknamed in artistic circles as (the Count). At the age of 20, he moved to Cairo, worked in the press before turning to directing and acting, and big stars such as Ismail Yassin, Abdel Halim Hafez, Mohamed Fawzy and Farid al-Atrash participated. He returned to Lebanon in 1962, and ran the United Arts Films Company. He got married at the age of 60, and went bankrupt at the end of his life due to the bankruptcy of Intra Bank in Beirut. He was suffering from heart disease and hid it from his surroundings in order to preserve his artistic career. He died on July 5, 1968 of a severe heart attack.
His grandfather was the first judge of Nablus, as was his father, and he grew up in the midst of a religious family, and when Abd al-Salam reached the age of twenty, his father sent him to Cairo to enroll in Al-Azhar, where he memorized the Holy Quran and excelled in the Arabic language, in addition to his mastery of the French that he learned in Beirut, in 1925 Al-Nabulsi worked in the artistic and literary press in more than one magazine, including the Heliopolis magazine, Al-Latif Al-Musawwarah and Al-Sabah.
his artwork
in Egypt
Nabulsi’s first opportunity in the cinema came at the hands of Ms. Assia in the movie “Ghada al-Sahara” directed by Wedad Orfi in 1929. Although it was the movie “Punk of Conscience” in 1931 by director Ibrahim Lama that opened the doors of cinema for him in the 1930s during that period with a number of Icons of art at that time, including the Lama brothers, Togo Mizrahi, Youssef Wehbe, Asia and Ahmed Galal. He was not satisfied with acting only, but also worked as an assistant director in many of them, especially Youssef Wehbe's films, but in 1947 he was forced to devote himself fully to acting after the movie "The Red Mask", especially after the increased demand for it after the spread of the wave of comedy films at that time. Al-Nabulsi's beginnings were in the roles of the playboy, Ibn al-Zawat, who was not funny, in many films, including "The Determination" by Kamal Selim 1939, "Laila Bint Al-Reef" by Togo Mizrahi 1941, "The Straight Path" by the same director 1943 and others. He starred in the movie The Barber of the Ladies, and his last films with Farid Al-Atrash in Egypt were in 1957 and “You are my love.” Faten Hamama and Omar Sharif also participated in the movie “Land of Peace” directed by Kamal Al Sheikh in 1957, in which he embodied a very human role, where he played a character A Palestinian man lives with his clan under the Israeli occupation, and throughout the film he appears reckless and cowardly, but the end reveals that he was the first to sacrifice his life while helping the Egyptian commando in an operation behind enemy lines.
Abdel Salam Al Nabulsi also co-starred in several films with the artist Ismail Yassin. At the end of 1962, Abdel Halim Hafez was supposed to participate in the movie “The Idol of the Masses,” a role played by the artist Fouad Al Mohandes.
In Lebanon
He left for Lebanon after his problems with taxes worsened, which amounted to 13,000 pounds at the time. His attempts, which he started in 1961, to reduce them to 9 thousand, did not work. What the Tax Authority considered as evidence of his lack of seriousness in paying, so it decided, three years after his departure, that is, in 1965, to quarantine the furniture of his rented apartment in Zamalek, which was not worth the required amount. The case remained pending until his death in 1968, despite the intervention of many art figures in Egypt, led by Umm Kulthum.
In Beirut, Nabulsi lived as king and in 1963 became director of the United Film Company and contributed to an increase in the number of films produced every year in Lebanon, and he acted in the films “The Fatena of the Masses,” “Paris and Love,” “The Joys of Youth,” “Bedouin in Paris,” and “Welcome to Love.” The most important of which is with the artist Sabah, who had previously participated in the films "Love Street", "The Holy Rabat" and "Habib Hayati". Al-Nabulsi fulfilled his old desire for family stability after he continued to enjoy the title of the most famous bachelor in the artistic community until he reached the age of sixty, when He married one of his admirers (Georgette Sebat) and completed the marriage procedures in the villa of his friend Philemon Wehbe without the knowledge of the girl's family, who entered into a bitter conflict with him during which he forced him to divorce her before the court ruled that the marriage was valid and the reconciliation took place between them.
binaries
Although he participated in a large number of stars in their films, he participated more intensely with some stars.
With Ismail Yassin
Abd al-Salam al-Nabulsi met Ismail Yassin in 36 films between 1946 and 1967 (although in some films they did not meet in the same scene), and they initially played supporting roles for first-grade stars such as Farid al-Atrash, Muhammad Fawzi, and Kamal al-Shennawi. Then Nabulsi worked as a supporting actor in the films in which Ismail Yassin starred, and Ismail Yassin in return played a supporting role in Nabulsi's first absolute starring in the movie Barber of the Ladies in 1960. Thus, Ismail Yassin is probably more than an example with Nabulsi. The films that the two stars starred in are:
Haram al-Basha (1946), The Mermaid (1947), Long Live Art, Love and Madness (1948), Fatima, Marika and Rachel, Efrat Hanim, I Love You (1949), The Last Lie (1950), End of a Story, Fi Hawa Sawa, Come Ladder, Beloved Country (1951), Where did you get this from?, Beit Al-Natash, Good Skin, Al-Muntasir (1952), The Melody of My Love, Uncle Abdo's Imp, Your Luck This Week, The Charming Mother-in-law, Ibn Thawat (1953), Dozens of Handkerchiefs, The Barber of Baghdad, Follow me The Ma’zoun (1954), Ismail Yassin in the Army (1955), the glamorous luxuries (1957), Ismail Yassin Tarzan, Ismail Yassin Police Harbi (1958), Marati’s groom, Hassan and Marika, The Green Threshold, Ismail Yassin Police Secret (1959), Ladies’ Barber The Magic Lantern (1960), The Three Musketeers (1962), The Generosity of Fancy (1967).
with Farid al-Atrash
Abd al-Salam al-Nabulsi met with Farid al-Atrash in 16 films, starting with the movie Victory of Youth in 1941 (Fred's first films) to the movie The Great Love in 1969 (Nabulsi's last feature film), and thus Nabulsi is more than like with Farid al-Atrash.
With Abdel Halim Hafez
Abdel Salam Al Nabulsi met Abdel Halim Hafez in five films, which is more than like with Abdel Halim. The films they acted together are:
Nights of Love (1955), The Boy of My Dreams (1957),Love Street (1958), A Love Story (1959), One Day of My Life (1961).
His death
As for his death, events followed quickly in recent months, especially after the Intra Bank in Beirut declared his bankruptcy, which meant the bankruptcy of Nabulsi as well, because he was putting all his money in this bank. His complaints of stomach pain increased to the extent that the artist Sabah, who was his companion to Tunisia to shoot the movie "The Journey of Happiness", said that she could hear his pain groans from the next room in the hotel, although he was keen to open the water taps so as not to raise the sound of his pain. He also felt so close to his death that he was leaving the key to his room from outside, and after his return, his condition worsened until he abstained from food completely days before his departure until the night of July 5, 1968, when he breathed his breath before arriving at the hospital, and his wife did not find funeral expenses. His friend, the artist, Farid al-Atrash, took over through his brother Fouad, who was trying to hide the news from Farid, but he learned about it from the newspapers and collapsed ill, grieving the death of a friend of life.
A few days after his death, the artist, Emerald, who was a friend of his, announced a secret related to the fact of his illness, as she confirmed that he did not suffer from a stomach ailment, as was rumored, but that he had been sick with the heart for ten years. And that he deliberately concealed it even from the closest people to him so that the directors and producers would not evade him and keep him away from their films, and that she knew this by chance when he sent some medical reports with her to the world doctor, Dr. Gibson, who was supervising the treatment of Farid al-Atrash, and he was the one who told her the truth about Abd al-Salam al-Nabulsi's illness without knowing that al-Nabulsi was hiding it. sharp.
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