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- Jane Oliver was born on 29 August 1930 in New York City, New York, USA. She was married to Valentine Sherry and David Oliver. She died on 3 June 1977 in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital [now Cedars-Sinai Medical Center], Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Maroun Bagdadi was born on 21 January 1950 in Beirut, Lebanon. He was a director and writer, known for Out of Life (1991), L'homme voilé (1987) and Little Wars (1982). He died on 10 December 1993 in Beirut, Lebanon.- Actor
- Composer
- Producer
Farid Al Atrache was born in Jebel Ed-Druz, Southern Syria in 1915. His parents were Prince Fahad Al Atrache and Princess Alia. In 1923, Prince Fahad and the Al Atrache clan were fighting against the French occupation of their land and as a result, Princess Alia had to flee to Egypt with her three young children Fouad, Farid and Amal. Their journey was diffcult where they travelled from Beirut through Palestine and finally Egypt without any personal documents. The Egyptian government granted them permission to stay, and the family settled at one of Cairo's popular districts where they lived in a one room flat after being accustomed to living in luxurious palaces. The mother had to work as a singer at private parties,and weddings in order to support her children who also took jobs while they went to school. Farid and his young sister Amal were interested in their mother's love of music, so she encouraged them to sing and taught her son how to play the oud. In their early youths, Farid and Amal (who later became Asmahane), began to draw the attention of composers and song writers who were amazed by their musical talents and beautiful voices, and eventually the duo were singing at radio stations and in front of wide audiences. The cinema was also the gateway to success and glory for Farid and Asmahane as they starred in two films. Once again tragedy struck Farid, his sister Asmahane was killed in a car accident and there were rumors that she was involved with the British intelligence.
Farid continued to sing and compose until one day he met Samia Gamal, a lovely belly dancer who captured his heart, and together they created a duo starring in several musical films from the late 1940s and the early 1950s. However, their relationship didn't last because Samia married an American man who embraced Islam and they both travelled to the U.S, and again Farid was lonely and sad but he still loved Samia. His next films and songs contained feelings of love and anguish in addition to patriotism. He spent his last years in Lebanon while he made frequent visits to Egypt, Arab countries and Europe. He died in Beirut on December 26, 1974 and that was before attending the premiere of his last film with actress Mervat Amin "Nagahm fi Hayati".- F.D. Reeve was born on 18 September 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The J2 Project (2002). He was married to Laura Caroline Stevenson, Ellen Swift, Helen Schmidinger and Barbara Pitney Lamb. He died on 28 June 2013 in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA.
- Buff Cobb was born on 19 October 1927 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Sam Levenson Show (1951), All Around the Town (1951) and Masquerade Party (1952). She was married to Herbert Spencer Martin, Mike Wallace, William Eythe and Greg Bautzer. She died on 12 July 2010 in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA.
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- Music Department
- Producer
Sabah was born on 10 November 1927 in Wadi Chahrour, Lebanon. She was an actress and producer, known for Khataf Merati (1954), Sharia el hub (1958) and Afrah al chabab (1964). She was married to Rushdi Abazah, Wassim Tabbara, Anwr Mansi, Baligh Hamdy, Nagib Shammas, Ahmed Farag, Joe Hammoud, Fadi Lebnan, Prince Khaled Bin Saud Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud and Youssef Shabaan. She died on 26 November 2014 in Beirut, Lebanon.- Johnny Counterfit was born on 24 March 1956 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He was an actor, known for Claymation Christmas Celebration (1987) and Festival of Claymation (1987). He died on 6 April 2022 in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA.
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Bassam Al Malla was born on 13 February 1956 in Damascus, Syria. He was a director and writer, known for The Neighbourhood's Gate (2006), Souq Al Harrir (2020) and Al Khawali (2000). He died on 22 January 2022 in Zahle, Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon.- Sound Department
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Additional Crew
Jim Emswiller was born on 12 January 1957. He is known for Jack Reacher (2012), Abduction (2011) and The Avengers (2012). He was married to Beth Amber. He died on 11 October 2018 in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA.- Stunts
- Actor
- Camera and Electrical Department
Arsha Aghdasi was an actor, known for Bang Bang (2014), Dying of the Light (2014) and Sara and Ayda (2017). He died on 5 August 2021 in Lebanon.- Berj Fazlian was born in Istanbul. He was an actor, known for Safar barlek (1966), Bint El-Hares (1968) and Next of Kin (1984). He was married to Sirvart Fazlian. He died on 15 February 2016 in Beirut, Lebanon.
- Christopher Kaldor was born on 19 February 1955 in Annapolis, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Heist (2001), Spartan (2004) and The Spanish Prisoner (1997). He was married to Ruth I. Wellschlager. He died on 11 June 2007 in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA.
- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
Elias Rahbani was born on 26 June 1938 in Antelias, Lebanon. He was a composer and actor, known for What We Do in the Shadows (2014), My Beloved One (1974) and Welcome to Love (1968). He was married to Nina Maria Khalil. He died on 4 January 2021 in Beirut, Lebanon.- Issam Breidy was born on 9 March 1980 in Lebanon. He was an actor, known for Valet Parking (2013), El Shahroura (2011) and Ajyal (2010). He died on 12 April 2015 in Lebanon.
- Gisèle Aouad was an actress, known for Caramel (2007). She died in January 2019 in Lebanon.
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Lokman Slim was born on 17 July 1962 in Lebanon. He was a director and writer, known for Massacre (2005), Tadmor (2016) and Kulturplatz (2004). He was married to Monika Borgmann. He died on 4 February 2021 in Addoussieh, Sidon District, Lebanon.- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Fatin Abdulwahhab was born in 1913 in Dumyat, Egypt. He was a director and actor, known for The 13th Wife (1962), Tarid el firdaos (1965) and Son of Hamido (1957). He was married to Laila Mourad, Hagar Hamdi, Tahiyyah Karyuka and Munira Fathi. He died in 1972 in Beirut, Lebanon.- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Mohamed Salman was born in 1923. He was a director and writer, known for Yasalam al hub (1963) and Afrah al chabab (1964). He was married to Najah Salam. He died on 24 September 1997 in Lebanon.- Writer
- Actress
Lebanese actress who made her debut in 1962. She began her career as an assistant director to future husband Antoine Remy, with whom she had 2 sons. She made her acting debut on the series Sunset (1973). Her other works include The Teacher and the Professor, The White Mask, and Long Night. She died of a heart attack on 3 October 1990.- Actor
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- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy was born in Northern Tripoli in 1899. His father sent him to Egypt so he could study at Al-Azhar Mosque, and while he was there he became interested in acting. He acted on stage for a while and when his family knew about his new career, they stopped sending him money so he could concentrate on his studies. Then Abdel Salam had to find a way to earn his living, he portrayed evil characters which aren't too violent, then he chose comedian roles in most of his films. He used to write in several Egyptian magazines, he also spoke different languages, such as French.- Malcolm Kerr was born on 8 October 1931 in Beirut, Lebanon. He was married to Ann Kerr. He died on 18 January 1984 in West Beirut, Lebanon.
- Actor
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- Producer
Lebanese actor and comedian born in Beirut in 1937. He emerged in the 1960s where he appeared in several Lebanese and Egyptian films such as Antar Invades the Desert (1960) and A Bedouin in Paris (1964). Afterwards, he turned to theater after Hassan Alaa El Din founded the National Theater. He became famous after appearing in plays like Shousho and the Million, and Happiness Hotel. He also appeared in several series such as The Teacher and the Professor (1980), which he wrote, and Captain Bob (1988). He was married twice and had 3 children. He passed away in 2004 in Beirut, at age 67.- Chuck Bednarik was born on 1 May 1925 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Emma Bednarik. He died on 21 March 2015 in Richland, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Actress
- Composer
Najah Salam was born on 13 March 1931 in Beirut, Lebanon. She was an actress and composer, known for Serr el hareba (1963), Yasalam al hub (1963) and Lubnan Fi Allayl (1964). She was married to Mohamed Salman, Adnan Al Arees and Fouad Moqbil. She died on 28 September 2023 in Beirut, Lebanon.- Sami Maksoud was an actor, known for Al-Jaiza Ul-Kubra (1974), Game of Chance (1968) and Interpol Fi Beirut (1966). He died on 30 September 2008 in Lebanon.
- Alia Nemry was an actress, known for Captain Bob (1988), Shariah al dabab (1966) and We are all freedom fighters (1969). She died on 18 February 2005 in Lebanon.
- She is a Lebanese artist whose real name is Amalia George Awad. She was known especially in the seventies and eighties of the last century for her many and varied television roles, especially in the series, That's the World. She started her artistic career early when she was under twenty. In the fifties, she was called the "Monologist of Lebanon". Amal is best known for her roles in the series Abu El Tayeb (1983) and Notes of Bitter Time (1997). She passed away at the age of 83 after a long struggle with illness.
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Simon Deitch was born on 12 May 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is known for The Head (1994), Igor and the Lunatics (1985) and Doug (1991). He died on 21 June 2022 in Bronx Lebanon Special Care Center, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA.- Haj Amin Al-Husseini was born in 1895 in Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire. He died on 5 July 1974 in Beirut, Lebanon.
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- Actor
Tony Hill was born on 21 April 1932 in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Ian Fleming: The Secret Road to Paradise (2008) and James Bond in the Bahamas (2008). He died on 23 October 2017 in Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA.- Dick Baldwin was born on 9 January 1911 in Santiam, Oregon, USA. He was an actor, known for One Wild Night (1938), Love and Hisses (1937) and International Settlement (1938). He died on 28 October 1996 in Lebanon, Oregon, USA.
- Jack Purcell was born in 1919 in Frackville, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Cool Change (1986) and The Man from Snowy River (1982). He was married to Jeanne. He died on 6 December 2013 in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA.
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- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("The Impossible Dream", "Changing Partners", "Ricochet") and author, educated at City College of New York. He wrote the Broadway stage scores for "Shinbone Alley (archie and mehitabel)" and "Man of La Mancha". Joining ASCAP in 1951, he wrote for radio, TV, films, theatre and concerts. His chief musical collaborators include George Kleinsinger, Ezra Laderman, Guy Wood, John Benson Brooks, Herman Krasnow, and Mitchell Leigh. His popular-song compositions also include "A Woman Wouldn't Be a Woman", "Toujours Gai", "Christmas Is a Feeling In Your Heart", "The Growing-Up Tree", "The Ho Ho Song", "The Midnight Train", "The Lollipop Tree", "The Goonie Bird Song" and "Little Red Train to the Zoo".- Jacques Terrane was born on 23 August 1915 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for La loi du nord (1939). He was married to Drue Leyton. He died on 20 June 1941 in Damascus, French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon [now Syria].
- Aïda Hilal was born on 22 July 1925 in Lebanon. She was an actress, known for Al massiada (1963), Law kont rajol (1964) and Antar Ben Shaddad (1961). She was married to Joseph Maqtoum and Abboud Fouda. She died on 5 August 1987 in Lebanon.
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Loretta Francel was born on 3 October 1896 in Aurora, Missouri, USA. She is known for Stage Struck (1948), Bluebeard (1944) and Speed to Spare (1948). She died in March 1980 in Lebanon, Oregon, USA.- Kamal Jumblatt was born in a significant prestige in the Druze community. His father, Fouad Joumblatt, was assassinated on August 6, 1921. After his father's death, his mother, Nazira, took over. She will play an important political role in the country.
In 1926, Kamal Jumblatt entered a Christian school where he completed his elementary studies in 1928. In high school, he studied French, Arabic, science and literature. He graduated from this high school in 1936. He obtained a diploma in philosophy a year later, in 1937. He then left for Paris where he joined the faculty of arts at the Sorbonne. He also studies psychology, civics and sociology.
He returned to Lebanon in 1939, where he continued his studies at Saint-Joseph University in Beirut. He obtained a law degree there in 1945. He married May 1, 1948 with May Arslan (died in 2013), daughter of the Druze emir Chekib Arslan. They will have only one son, Walid Jumblatt.
Kamal Jumblatt, pacifist leader, fighting for democracy, socialism with a human face and a secular Lebanon, still marks memories. Kamal Jumblatt was not destined for politics. The death of his cousin Hikmat naturally designated him as successor, representative of the family. Then, India has always fascinated a young man more inclined to meditate than to govern: he went there at the age of 26: one of the photos shows him plowing. From his time at the Ministry of Agriculture and Social Affairs in 1947 to the violent insurrection of 1958, Kamal Jumblatt asserted his charisma and quickly outlined his ambitions after the creation, in 1949, of the PSP (Progressive Socialist Party): unity of Arab countries, fight against the Lebanese oligarchy to establish real democracy. From 1958, the year of the start of the presidency of Fouad Chéhab, supported by Kamal Jumblatt and his party, to 1969, the date of the first riots with the Palestinians, the Druze politician was Minister of National Education then of the Interior , while tirelessly meeting with various foreign officials in order to initiate a dialogue of peace which he favored above all. He will no longer stop defending the Palestinian cause and admiring the Jordanian position in the conflict which pits the Feyadine against the Israeli army.
From 1970, conflict loomed and peaceful solutions became increasingly bogged down, as Kamal Jumblatt feared and predicted. He became considerably closer to the Soviet Union, which awarded him the Lenin medal in 1970 to honor his work in favor of peace. Indeed, the Druze leader never tires of meeting political and religious leaders from all sides, but cannot escape the war: in 1976, he reviewed part of the People's Liberation Army. A few months later, he was shot dead in his car, along with two of his companions. - Nardi Reeder Campion was born on 27 June 1917 in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA [now Hawaii, USA]. She was a writer, known for The Long Gray Line (1955) and The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1957). She was married to Thomas Baird Campion. She died on 29 November 2007 in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA.
- A Lebanese artist. He began his artistic career by working with Al-Rahbaneh, and his works and roles received wide audiences, whether on television, theater, or cinema. Among his most prominent dramatic works are "The Victorious, the Teacher and the Professor, Jana Al-Omar, He and She, Al-Tarabeesh, The Story of Amal, Fasting But, The Days Prison, Habib Mira." Among his theatrical works are: "Mays Al-Reem, Petra, Nuzul Al-Surour, Shi Fail", and in the cinema, he presented "Bibi, the second lady, Vitamin, Welcome Lebanon".
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Stefan Sharff was born on 29 November 1919 in Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Across the River (1965), Santa in Animal Land (1948) and Constitution and Censorship (1953). He was married to Laura Davies Foley and Manuelita P. Sharff. He died on 12 May 2003 in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA.- Leïla Karam was born on 15 April 1937 in Lebanon. She was an actress, known for The Melody of My Life (1975), Safar barlek (1966) and Captain Bob (1988). She died on 2 December 2008 in Beirut, Lebanon.
- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
One of the best Lebanese and Arabian voices, Wadi El-Safi was born in Niha Chouf in Mount-Lebanon as Wadi' Francis in November 1, 1921. His masculine and strong voice as well as his charismatic personality made him combined with his traditional songs a significant face of his country's culture, and became after a successful career a Lebanese cultural icon. Wadi started his career at the age of 17 and from that day he knew nothing but continuous recognition and admiration for all that he had given to the Lebanese song. He worked also in certain projects as a composer. Wadi also knew the theater as well as the cinema and worked as an actor more than once. The movies that he has been acknowledged for are "Ghazl El-Banat", "Mawwal", and "Nar El-Shawq". In 2013, Wadi suffered from Pulmonary Consolidation, and few weeks later he was admitted again to a hospital where he died in October 11,2013.- Director
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Born in Tripoli in 1927, Georges Nasser studied cinema at UCLA in Hollywood and returned to his native country with the firm determination to make films in an environment where the industry was non-existent. In 1957 he directed Ila Ayn (Towards the Unknown), which became the first film to represent Lebanon in the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Nasser repeated the same remarkable feat with The Little Stranger, also selected at Cannes in 1962. A period of relentlessness and disillusionment followed. In 1975, Nasser shot his third film "Al Matloub Rajol Wahed" (A Man is Needed) in Syria. Although the film's future looked promising, the eruption of the Lebanese civil war put an end to its career. Unlike the new wave of young Lebanese filmmakers who filmed the war, such as Maroun Baghdadi, Borhane Alaouie, Jocelyne Saab, Randa Chahal and Jean Chamoun, Nasser did not follow suit. Nevertheless, at no point did he consider leaving the country. He worked as a production manager on a few foreign films, such as Volker Schlöndorff's Circle of Deceit, and continued to write and seek funding opportunities for his screenplays. Unfortunately, time passed and money did not arrive. Nasser began to fight on another front: the creation of a Lebanese union of film technicians, another attempt that proved unsuccessful because of the incompetence of the state and the ministries concerned. Nasser finally found a satisfactory vocation as a teacher at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA). He educates new generations in the art of making films. At the age of 89, he still has not retired, and his eyes shine when he talks about his great love of cinema.- George Al Rassi was married to Joelle Hatem and Joelle Hatem. He died on 27 August 2022 in Masnaa, Lebanon.
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- Production Manager
Houssam Sabbah was born in 1948 in Nabatieh, Lebanon. He was an actor and production manager, known for Turritopsis Dhornii (2018), Nuts (2016) and 50 Alef (2018). He died on 29 May 2021 in Sidon, Lebanon.- Actor
- Producer
Kamal El Helou was born on 8 August 1939 in Lebanon. He was an actor and producer, known for Captain Bob (1988), Layali Scheherazade (1980) and Rajol Min El-Madi (2004). He died on 29 April 2010 in Lebanon.- Writer
- Producer
- Music Department
Marwan Najjar was a writer and producer, known for Ayle Matooub Aleiya (2010), Meenak Enta (2018) and Mouabbad (2009). He died on 14 February 2023 in Lebanon.- Shafiq Hassan was an actor, known for The Melody of My Life (1975), Yasalam al hub (1963) and Guitare d'amour (1973). He died on 25 January 1990 in Lebanon.
- A Lebanese actress. The beginning of her acting career was through the school theater, before deciding to professionally act despite the opposition of her family. Her beginnings were through television in the sixties of the twentieth century, where she participated in several series, including Mashar Ramadan in 1967. Then she participated in many Egyptian and Lebanese films. The most prominent of which is, The Three Swindlers and The Loss. While the most prominent of her series are Alia and Essam and Amalia.
- Mike A. Kennedy was an actor, known for Pure Country (1992). He died on 31 August 2018 in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA.