The great Egyptian artist joined the French Ferrer schools, so he was fluent in French, and following a while he asked his father to leave the study and help him in his work. He actually left the school, but he did not continue long working with his father, as he always stayed up outside the house watching the theatrical bands, so he became attached to art.
He is the artist “Abdul-Fattah Al-Qasry”, born on April 15, 1905 in Al-Gamaliya, Cairo. His father worked in the manufacture and goldsmithing and sold it to the high classes. He was a wealthy and well-off.
He joined the Abdul Rahman Rushdi band, and one day someone came to him and told him that Professor Najib Al-Rihani wanted to meet you, but he did not believe himself out of joy.
He went to meet Najib Al-Rihani, and Al-Rihani told him that he had denied entering the Abdul Rahman Rushdi band in order to see you because I heard of your talent in acting and I would like you to join my band.
Then a problem arose between him and the director of the Rihani band, Badi’ Khairi, so he left the band and then worked with the artist Ismail Yassin. He presented his first film, his name was “The Teacher Bahbah” in 1935, and the works continued, such as “Si Omar” and “The Game of the Six”, he participated in 64 films, the last of which was the movie Sugar. Hanim with Abdel Moneim Ibrahim and Kamal El Shennawy.
His father sent him and asked him to leave art and return to help him, and his father told him that what he owns is much more than what you earn from your work in art, so he refused Al-Qasry, which led to him depriving him of the inheritance from his father.
His first marriage ended in divorce, as she did not have children, then he discovered that he was the one who did not have children, following that he married once more and also she did not have children, so he divorced her, then married once more.
After one time he saw a small child sleeping on the street and he was working in a grocery store, and following the store closed, he slept on the street until morning, so Al-Qusari took him and raised him and considered him his adopted son. .
After that, he married for the fourth time, and she was a nurse he met during his stay in a hospital for treatment, and she was 35 years younger, so he married her, following a while she made him write all his property in her name and prevented him from communicating with his family.
In one of his plays with Ismail Yassin, while standing in front of the audience, he said, “I don’t see anything.” The audience laughed, thinking that this was an act, but his friend Ismail Yassin realized that Al-Qasry had lost his sight, so he grabbed him by the hand and made him sit on a chair behind the scenes.
He sat in his house and left work, but his wife mistreated him and cheated on him with his adopted son, then she brought a Ma’zoun and made him divorce her from Al-Qusri, and following several months she brought the Ma’zoun to marry her to the adopted son of Al-Qasri and made Al-Qasri sign a witness to the contract.
One day, the artists Mary Munib and Najwa Salem came to ask regarding Al-Qasry in his house, and his wife told them that he was not there. Closed room, they broke the door and found him tied to the bed, so they took him and took him to the hospital.
His health was deteriorating as a result of a lack of blood sugar from lack of food, as he was diabetic, and following a while his health improved a little, so they rented him one of the apartments and brought a sister of his older age who did not marry to take care of him and allocate them a monthly amount.
After a while, his illness increased, and they admitted him to Al-Mabra Hospital. On Sunday, March 8, 1964, he moved to the mercy of God. Six people, including his sister and Najwa Salem, walked one day at his funeral.
