Personal Info
Birth date
1932-01-08 (93 Years)
Day of death
2013-12-18
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Cairo, Egypt
Also known as
جمال إسماعيل
جمال اسماعيل
Gamal Ismail
Gamal Ismail
Biography
Gamal El Din Ismail Hussein was born in Cairo. He earned a degree in history from the Faculty of Arts of Ain Shams University in 1957, and a bachelor's degree from the Institute of Theatrical Arts of Cairo in 1956. He started working as a theater supervisor in the city of Alexandria in 1958. He then directed plays made by university and public companies acting troupes. He was first recognized when he played a role in the play “Sheia' Fi Sadry” (Something Inside Me), after which he appeared frequently in many successful plays, like “Sayedaty el Gameela” (My Fair Lady). In television, Gamal Ismail worked in many shows that were considered landmarks of their periods, like “Ze'ab El Gabal” (Wolves of the Mountain) and “Layaly El Helmeya” (Nights of Helmeya). His last appearances were in the TV series “Al Qasirat” (The Minors) and “Khalaf Allah”. He died in his house in 2013 after suffering a heart attack.
Filmography
Al Helmeya Nights
8.1
Overview:
The events revolve around the conflict between Salim Al-Badri (Yahya Al-Fakharani) and Mayor Suleiman Ghanem (Salah Al-Saadani) and Nazik Al-Selahdar (Safia Al-Omari) benefiting from this conflict in a way that serves your own goals, as Suleiman Ghanem came from the countryside to avenge his father Abdel-Tawab Ghanem, who died in prison Because of Ismail Al-Badri, Salim's father. The confrontation between them began when Suleiman Ghanem bought shares in the Salim Al-Badri Textiles Factory.Raafat Al Haggan
8.3
Overview:
Revolves around a national epic in the files of the Egyptian intelligence on the biography of the Egyptian hero, Rifat Ali Suleiman Al-Jamal, who was planted inside the Israeli community to spy for the Egyptian intelligence. He was instrumental in preparing for the October War.Critical Moments
8
Overview:
A medical drama about the stories of a large number of doctors, staff and patients at Dr. Galal's hospital, and the daily challenges that the hospital staff faces both in their work and their personal lives.AlSeera AlHelaleyya
NYR
Overview:
It takes about the movement of the Hilali Tribe from the Arabic peninsula to the nowadays Tunisia. It takes about the adventures of Abu Zaid which are a mixture of facts and myths with a glimpse of glory on the hero's cunning and wisdom.Al-Gama'a
7
Overview:
Al-Gama'a is an Egyptian television drama, Historical and Political drama series written by Wahid Hamid, directed by Mohammed Yasin and produced by Kamel Abu Ali. The series began filming in January 2010 with a budget of 50 million Egyptian pounds. The show deals with the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest Islamist political group, which was officially banned but nonetheless tolerated to an extent before the revolution. Critics have decried the show's pro-government stance, charging that it plays into the Egyptian government's agenda prior to the 2010 Egyptian parliamentary elections.The Qirdati
NYR
Overview:
Young thief Fattouh meets Master Bayoumi while he's in prison. After he gets out of prison, he returns to fraud, when the police chases him, he hides at Master Bayoumi who teaches him to train monkeys, and gives him the monkey Simsm to train him to steal.Stray Light
7.5
Overview:
The role of the story about the class struggle between the old feudal class represented in the family of Al-'Azayzeh and the class of new owners represented in the family of Al-Sawalim who were previously employed.Om Kulthum
NYR
Overview:
Throughout its episodes, the series narrates the biography of the Arab singing lady (Umm Kulthum) since her inception in Sinbillawain and her journey with her father and siblings in singing religious songs on all occasions, through her artistic career and her move to stability in Cairo, and the stories of love that she went through during her life, and her artistic glory until she mastered The lyric scene in Egypt, and the crises she encountered during her artistic work and social life.Ramadan Mabrouk Abou El Allamen Hamouda
6.5
Overview:
Professor Ramadan is a feared and well respected teacher in a village, forced to take a job in the city teaching at a private school. He soon realizes that most of his students are infatuated with a famous singer whom he tries to ban all mention of within the school, only to fall in love with her himself.Playing with Giants
7
Overview:
When Hassan Bahlal, a young unemployed man, calls the National Security Agency to report a fire that is to break out in a factory the next day, a new chapter in Hassan's life begins as he tells the officer he has foreseen the incident in a dream.Mafia
6.778
Overview:
After his expulsion from the Military Academy, Hussain gets involved in mafia crimes abroad. Upon being deported to an Egyptian prison, and in order to give him a second chance to live a well meaning life, the Egyptian Intelligence Agency assign him with a secret mission. Hussain reluctantly accepts extensive bio-psychological training with a unique patriotic team who revive his love for his country.Date Wine
5.9
Overview:
Set in a mythical small Upper-Egyptian village where people live off planting dates and making of Date Wine, a stranger arrives and calls on people to travel to the abroad for job opportunities, all of the village's grown-up men leave, except for the disabled grandfather and his grandson Ahmed, upon which trouble begins to spread in the village in the absence of men along with his lover Salma. Exploring themes of Rebellion, Desire, Masculinity, Patriarchy, Spirituality and the Ancient Egyptian Mystique.The Devil's Island
5.818
Overview:
Shawaf delivers his neighbor Fatima an illustrative map of the ship sunken at the Devil Island in Hurghada, hidden by gold boxes, accompanied by Baybars to finance the trip, and agree to Jalal teach them to dive, and recognizes the task of Fatima, and succeeded in the extraction of some gold bars, and here shows the Zoghbi gang and events escalate.The Leader of Preachers
NYR
Overview:
A biography of Sheikh Muhammad Metwali Al-Sha'raawi since his birth in the village of Daqadous in Dakahlia, his learning of the Holy Quran and enrollment in the religious institute, then his joining to Al-Azhar, and also glimpses of his personal life with his wife and children.The Other Man
NYR
Overview:
The story revolves around a businessman who does many bad deeds and loses his memory after an accident, while his family thinks that he died. He ends up in a simple neighborhood where its people help him go on with his life. Till his family finds out that he's still alive, and trying to recover his memory.The Fair
5
Overview:
The child (Barakat) from his mother gets lost in the crowd of the birth, to be kidnapped by the seller (Ali al-Araj) and taken to his home and called (Ibrahim), to grow up in an environment of all criminality, and involved working with a smuggling gang, and travel with them to Greece to carry out an operation, to change his life .Khalaf Allah
NYR
Overview:
Set in a remote traditional village, a drama about Khalaf Allah (Nour El-Sherif), a dignified man beloved by the people because of his ability to predict strange events happening in the village. It also deals with the revolutions occurring across the Arab countries.The Three Wise Men
NYR
Overview:
(Ameen) The merchant who sees many nightmares in his dream about a young man who accepts him to kill him, which causes him to feel fear for what he owns, and goes to seek advice from a psychiatrist, and one day Ameen is surprised by the young man who always appears in all his nightmares as he applies to a job with him, and discovers Amine that this young man loves (Samia) Amin's daughter, which causes him to address this relationship, refusing to associate with her.Acting
TBAسلسال الدم (32 Episodes) as رضوان
TBAمسرحية سحلب as Unknown
2013Tom W Jemmy as Tom's Grandpa
2013Khalaf Allah (30 Episodes) as Unknown
2013The Minors (30 Episodes) as Unknown
2013Howa Fi Keda as Unknown
2011Tek Tek Bom as Unknown
2011Animal Stories in the Qur'an (30 Episodes) as Unknown
2011Al-Rayyan (30 Episodes) as Unknown
2010Al-Gama'a (28 Episodes) as Unknown
2008Ramadan Mabrouk Abou El Allamen Hamouda as طه
2008The moon's tears as Unknown
2008The President's Chef as Unknown
2007A Public Opinion Case (30 Episodes) as Unknown
2007El-Torbini as Unknown
2007Critical Moments (32 Episodes) as Unknown
2006A Difficult Mission as Hend's Father
2006Tamer and shawqiya as والد شوقية
2006Tamer & Shawkeya (60 Episodes) as مرسي عويس
2005Italia's War as Unknown
2005Ali Spicy as Unknown
2003Night till dawn (35 Episodes) as Unknown
2002Goha El Masry (16 Episodes) as الحانوتي أبو السعد
2002The Leader of Preachers (32 Episodes) as Unknown
2002Mafia as Unknown
2001Justice Has Many Faces (28 Episodes) as Unknown
2000Opera Aida (27 Episodes) as Unknown
2000ألف ليلة وليلة: ضوء المكان وبدر التمام (30 Episodes) as المنجم سندوكان
2000Attempted Murder as مصطفي الرشيدي
1999The Other Man (33 Episodes) as Unknown
1999Om Kulthum (37 Episodes) as Unknown
1999ألف ليلة وليلة: ذات المال (30 Episodes) as بندار
1998Stray Light (30 Episodes) as Unknown
1998ألف ليلة وليلة: ذات الخال (30 Episodes) as الصياد أبو نورهان
1998The Disappearance of Jaafar Al-Masri as Abdul Qadir
1998Date Wine as Mohammed Ismail
1997Hassan Ellol as Bakr
1997AlSeera AlHelaleyya (40, 37 Episode) as الامير سليم, الأمير سليم
1995البراري والحامول (1 Episode) as Unknown
1994أيام المنيرة (1 Episode) as Unknown
1993The Foxes as Unknown
1993The Strongest Men as عم سيد
1993Hagat w Mehtagat (1 Episode) as Unknown
1993ألف ليلة وليلة: معروف الإسكافي (30 Episodes) as Unknown
1992Rooster Among Hens as Unknown
1992Almshaghebon Fe Noabae as Unknown
1991Playing with Giants as Unknown
1991Hasal Ya Saedt Al-Beih as المعلم خشبه ضرغام - الحانوتى
1991El Alma Basha as Unknown
1990The Devil's Island as Hamed
1990The Family Of Mr. Shalash (15 Episodes) as الأسطى عزقلاني
1990ألف ليلة وليلة: بدر باسم وجوهرة بنت السمندل (30 Episodes) as دنكار
1990Khamsa Kart as Unknown
1989The Fair as Unknown
1989El Zalem Wel Mazloom as القوصى عبدالسلام
1988Raafat Al Haggan (56 Episodes) as Zakry Bik
1988Al-Usta Al-Modeer as Stohi Abu Zaid
1987Al Helmeya Nights (18 Episodes) as Unknown
1987Alf liela w liela - El Talat Banat (30 Episodes) as مشكاح
1987الثلاثية (32 Episodes) as محمد عفت
1987The Market as Unknown
1987The Qirdati as Unknown
1987Al Jamaliyah as Unknown
1986Kaddabeen Al-Zaffa as Unknown
1986Alf liela w liela - Wardashan w Mando (30 Episodes) as تمبال
1985القشرة الذهبية (1 Episode) as Unknown
1985لا إله إلا الله (30 Episodes) as Unknown
1985Alf liela w liela - Aroos El Bahr (30 Episodes) as برهان
1985Fawazia The Bourgeoisie as Unknown
1985Ali Al- Zebak (1 Episode) as Handal
1983The Bet as Unknown
1981Al khatba (1 Episode) as Unknown
1981Eldenyaa Ma2loobaa as Unknown
1981صراع العشاق as سيد النجعاوي - والد سلمى
1981Vote for Dr. Sulaiman Abdulbaset as Unknown
1981The Bullies of Boulak as دسوقي
1980محمد رسول الله (30 Episodes) as Unknown
1980Tears on Bold Eyes (14 Episodes) as المعلّم
1979We Are the Bus People as الصّول عبدالمعطي
1978Hearts in a Sea of Tears as مُفتاح السكري - الريجيسير
1978The Criminal as Shehata
1978Sikkat Al-Ashqeen as Ahmad
1978Wa Menel Hob Ma Qatal as Unknown
1978أولاد الحلال as الموسيقار أحمد النعمان
1977Torment is a Woman as Unknown
1976And Life Is Back as حنفي
1976Viva Zalata as General Batista
1975The Lady and the Wolves as المذيع
1975Everybody Wants Love as حارس المدرسة
1975يا رب توبة as الفلاح قرنى - صديق ابراهيم
1974امبراطورية المعلم as عبده شكاوي
1973Madrasat Al-Moraheqeen as Hani's father
1973Medinet Al Samt as Unknown
1973The Woman Who Defeated the Devil as Unknown
1971The Killers as The prosecutor
1970أشجان (7 Episodes) as حلمي
1970Sana maa el shoghl el lazeez as حنفى
1969يوم واحد عسل as Unknown
1969مجرم تحت الاختبار as محروس
1969Sayedaty El Gameela as حسب الله بعضشي
1968العتبة جزاز (30 Episodes) as Unknown
1968The technical secretary as دسوقي السماك
1967زهرة الصبار as زعتر
1965The Mamluks as Unknown
1965The Three Wise Men as Unknown
1964The Great Adventure as Zalat
1964الدبور as صلاح زوج فوزيه
1963The Newspaper Seller as سيد
1963مطرب العواطف as عمر
1963Shafiqa Al-Qibtiya as ضابط حراسة
1951Habib el-Rooh as Unknown