A varied career in cinema, theater and television (Ahmed Halawa/Facebook)
The Representative Professions Syndicate announced in EgyptToday, Friday, the death of actor Ahmed Halawa at the age of 73, due to complications Corona virus infection. Halawa was taken to hospital last month for treatment of the virus, but his health has deteriorated in the last two days.
Halawa was born on January 7, 1949, and loved acting since his childhood. School theater was the first stepping stone to the world of art. He studied engineering, but insisted on learning the arts academically, so he obtained a BA from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts.
He also obtained a diploma from the “Higher Institute of Fine Arts Leonardo da Vinci” in the Department of Decoration. He received his PhD from the University of Theatrical and Film Art in Bucharest in the philosophy of arts, for the dissertation he presented under the title “Comedy Directing Techniques in Contemporary Egyptian Theatre” in 1994.
He excelled in theatrical direction, design and animation of puppets and sculpture, and he founded the “Halawa Complex for Sciences and Arts”, which specializes in applied arts, such as painting on glass, decoupage, embroidery and mosaic.
The play “Bank Talk” was Halawa’s first act on the stage, in 1978, directed by Samir Al-Asfoury. It was the first public-sector play and it continues for 13 months. In it, Halawa presented 7 different characters, then presented on the stage of “Al-Rihani Theater” the play “Very Empty Words” in the same year, which was his real breakthrough in the art world.
In a press interview with him previously, he said that at the beginning of his career he refused to work with his uncle, the prominent theatrical actor Fayez Halawa (1932 – 2002) so that it would not be said that he relied on his stardom. He later worked with him in 4 theater productions.
Among his plays are also “The Bridge of the Laws” (1997), “Isis” (1986), “Caligula” (1992), “Shaqlabaz” (1982), “The Constitution of Our Masters” (1995), and “Tari’io” ( 2002).
He participated in the films “The Torment is a Woman” (1977), “The Devils of the City” (1991), “The Strongest Men” (1993), “The Children Escaped” (2006), “Dawlat Security” (2011), and “Reply”. Verb (2012), “The Fourth Pyramid” (2016), “My Soulmate” (2020), and others.
He presented the series “Tears in Rude Eyes” (1980), “Raafat Al-Hagan” (the second and third parts), “The Fox” (1993), “Ayam al-Munawara” (1994), “Harun al-Rashid” (1997), and “The Thief and the Book” (2010), “Ahl Cairo” (2010), “Nellie and Sherihan” (2016), “The Testament” (2018), “The Zizou Family” (2017), “The Godfather” (2017). ), “The Counterattack” (2021), and “The Choice 2” (2021).
He was present in the TV seriesFor the representative of Adel Imam The latter are all, namely, “The Naji Atallah Band” (2012), “The Fortune Teller” (2013), “His Excellency” (2014), “Professor and Head of Department” (2015), and “Demons of Adly Allam” (2017). .
His last appearance was last year through “The Story of 90 Days”, the second episode of the series “Wara Every Door”, starring Nidal Al-Shafei, Mimi Jamal, Ahmed Refaat, Donia Abdel Aziz, Afaf Rashad, written by Mirna Al-Fiqi, and directed by Ahmed Saleh.
In parallel with his artistic career, he took the academic teaching path, working as a professor in the acting department at the Academy of Arts, and taught theater in the faculties of specific education, and also contributed to the establishment of the theater department at Helwan University, and was providing acting lessons for amateurs through his own YouTube channel. .
