Kamal El Sheikh

Egyptian film director (1919–2004)

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Kamal El Sheikh
كمال الشيخ
Born	(1919年02月02日)2 February 1919 Egypt
Died	2 January 2004(2004年01月02日) (aged 84) Cairo, Egypt
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1952–1987

Kamal El Sheikh (Arabic: كمال الشيخ; 2 February 1919 – 2 January 2004) was an Egyptian film director.^[1] He directed 28 films between 1952 and 1987, with eight of them in the Top 100 Egyptian films list. He was known in the fifties and early sixties as "Hitchcock of Egypt" because of his influence on the cinema of the well-known British director.