Ali Abdel Rahman (Cairo)
The artist Ashraf Zaki, the captain of the acting professions, reassured the fans and fans of the great artist Samir Sabry, about his health condition. He indicated that his condition is stable, and he is responding to treatment.
The artist Samir Sabry, who is currently lying in the hospital, after suffering a health crisis, after undergoing surgery, as a result of a weak heart, from the effect of chemotherapy for cancer that he underwent a year ago, a lover who gives free of charge, a humane attitude towards his colleagues in the middle The artist, who is devoted to his art and his message, possesses a great balance of love and respect from the public for him, reaps the fruits of goodness and love, in the messages of support he received from his fans and colleagues who pray for him to recover.
And the messages of support did not stop with his fans and colleagues only, but also from his country, Egypt, after President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi announced that the state would guarantee his treatment and care. There is no doubt that these messages and invitations had a great impact on his psychological and moral condition, which rose after this decision, which coincided with his undergoing a difficult heart surgery.
Big, illustrious names have disappeared behind the scenes, renounced the decision to retire, and reappeared in order to support the artist Samir Sabry, and she is the able artist Naglaa Fathi, who was keen to support and reassure her boyfriend, before he underwent heart surgery. And other artists of the old and young generation who are keen to check on him daily through the mobile phone.
joy maker
The artist Samir Sabry owns, in his artistic record, 138 films, for example, but not limited to: My Story with Time, a Bulb of Grimace, Brothers Enemies, Great Loyalty, Warm Embraces, The Train of Life Has Passed, With Parents Kindness, Underwater Hell, Secret Session, A Woman Lost the Way , The Disappearance of a Wife, The Palace of Longing, The Woman’s Enemy, My Father on the Tree, The Three Prisoners and other important films.
In terms of dramas, his tally reached 37 drama series, including the accused, my father, a case of public opinion, a legitimate right, a queen in exile, Carioca, the wind of Madame, Valentino, pleading, oh Ward who buys you, Umm Kulthum and other dramas.
And three plays are Al-Abit, Oh Us, Hey, Street Cats, 11 radio series, and 6 radio programmes.
He was able to achieve a special presence in the comic roles, in the relatively few works he participated in, if compared to the social roles he played, where he realized the game of comedy and played the “easy abstaining” style based on the comedy of the situation, among which we mention: Half an hour Jawaz, Shenbo In The Trap, Find Scandal, and other comedies in which he left a mark of joy.
Over the course of his artistic career, he proved that he is an artist who does not find it difficult to perform any kind of drama, as he maintained the same high level in all his works and roles.
Together with Rafik Al-Sabban, Youssef Chahine, Hussein Kamal and Sayed Royal, he founded an artistic union called “Al-Ahrar Al-Futtahinah”.
the beginning
At the beginning, Sabri worked as a broadcaster on the English radio, then turned to acting and singing. And he was able to prove himself among the stars of his time.
His passion for art was born from his early childhood, and he lived among a family of connoisseurs of art. His parents used to take him to the cinema and theater and encouraged him when he stood in front of them imitating artists, singing and dancing.
He moved with his father to Cairo, after his separation from his mother when he was nine years old, to start a new phase of his life in Cairo, where he lived in the building of stars and greats. European.
radio
Despite his love for cinema and his success in it, he had a love for radio from time to time. In 1973, his first program was launched, and it was called “The International Club”, and its show lasted for several months, during which he hosted many of Egypt’s biggest stars, led by Abdel Halim Hafez and Mohamed Abdel-Wahab and director Hassan El-Imam, and it is considered the first “Talk Show” program in Egypt.
The success of the experiment encouraged him to repeat it again through the “Mishwar” program, which continued to be shown on Egyptian television for several consecutive years, and his idea was to host two stars during the month of Ramadan, each of which will show its episodes 15 days in the holy month.
Among the programs that gained wide fame, through which he achieved his desire as a successful radio broadcaster, is the “This Evening” program, in which he hosted major stars and artists, the “Without Speech” program, the “Kan Zaman” program, and the last of them was “A Night on Art Street” in 2017 on Radio 9090. During which the news of the stars of the beautiful time related to their artistic and personal lives.
Awards and Honors
Although he is one of the founders of the Cairo International Film Festival, where he presented the first session with the late great writer Kamal Al-Malakh, the festival finally remembered him and decided to honor him in its 40th session, in 2018, by giving him the Faten Hamama Appreciation Award, a tribute that was long overdue, and this came during his speech at the ceremony In which he indicated that he was happy to be honored before his death, and expected that he would not see the moment of his honor, and that they would say that he would receive the award of the deceased Samir.
Sabri presented a documentary film with his voice at the beginning of the opening ceremony of this session, about the history of cinema in the world and Egypt, pointing out that he presented the first session of the festival in the seventies with the late writer Kamal Al-Malakh, and that he is happy that God gave him life and now he is presenting the 40th session of the festival.
And he was honored by the Luxor African Film Festival, in its last session, in recognition of his great history in the cinematic field. This is the honor, which he expressed his happiness for, noting that the first time he attended the festival was during the participation of the movie “Cairo Time” in 2015.
He was also honored at the 18th Deer Guest Awards Festival for all his artwork, in the presence of a large number of art stars.