Mohamed Saad

Mohamed Saad
Born Mohamed Saad Ahmad
(1968-12-14) 14 December 1968
Giza, Egypt
Other names El-Limby
Occupation Actor
Years active 1988-Present
Children Nour El-Deen, Karim and Yaseen

Mohamed Saad (born 14 December 1968) Arabic: محمد سعد‎, is an Egyptian film actor, active since 2000. After several supporting roles, Saad took the lead in El-Limby (2002; the name, that of Saad's character, is a play on the name of one of Egypt's colonial figures, High Commissioner Edmund Allenby). Playing the film's "illiterate, inefficient, slow, stoned and drunk" hero, Saad "invests his first leading role with a hyperactive physical energy especially evident in dance sequences." The comedy became one of the highest-grossing films in Egyptian cinema.[1]

Between 2003 and 2005, Saad played similar characters in three further films including one of his most successful movies Ely Baly Balak.

In 2006, Saad starred in Katkout, in which he played a hopeless Upper Egyptian who stumbles into a career as a boxer and crimefighter.[2] Cairo online magazine Yallabina criticized the film for relying on Saad's physical comedy at the expense of story and script.[3]

Filmography

  • El-Tariq Ela Eilat - 1997 (ar: الطريق إلى إيلات) - The Road to Eilat
  • El-Nazer - 1999 (ar: الناظر) - The Principal
  • 55 Esaaf - 2001 (ar: إسعاف 55) - Ambulance 55
  • El-Limby - 2002 (ar: اللمبى)
  • Ely Baly Balak - 2003 (ar: اللي بالي بالك)
  • Oukal - 2004 (ar: عوكل)
  • Bouha - 2005 (ar: بوحة)
  • Katkout - 2006 (ar: كتكوت )
  • Karkar - 2007 (ar: كركر )
  • Boshkash - 2008 (ar: بوشكاش )
  • El-Limby 8 Gega - 2011 (ar: االلمبى 8 جيجا )
  • Tatah - 2013 (ar: تتح )

References

  1. ↑ El-Assyouti, Mohamed, "The wedding game", Al Ahram Weekly, August 22–28, 2002
  2. ↑ "At a Theater Near You - Katkout", Egypt Today, July 2006
  3. ↑ Farahat, Yasmine, "Katkout" (Review), Yallabina.com
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