Rushdy Abaza

An Egyptian actor born in 1926 to an Italian mother and an Egyptian father He obtained his baccalaureate from St Marks College in Alexandria but did not complete his university studies due to his love of sports He began his career in cinema when director Barakat assigned him an important role in the film The Little Millionairess in 1948 In 1950 he traveled to Italy for six months hoping to appear in Italian films but he was not successful there Among his most important films are A Woman on the Road The Road The Road of Hope The Second Man Struggle on the Nile There Is a Man in Our House and Wife No 13 He died in 1980 after suffering from brain cancer