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Started his career on the silver screen as a star, After graduating from the Teacher’s College Muhammad Kamaal al-Shennaawy taught art education at secondary schools.
Meanwhile, as a plastic artist he held a number of art exhibitions.
After two years, he left teaching to acting.
During his first stage, he was very popular playing light comic lead roles.
He formed a successful duet with super star Shadia where he joined her in some of the songs; “Al-hawa maloush dawa i.
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Love All the Way”, “Hamaamet al-salaam i.
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The dove of peace” and “Lessaanak Houssaanak i.
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Guard Your Tongue”.
Kamaal produced a big number of films through his production company; “Wadaa’ fel-fagr i.
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Farewell at dawn”, “Nessaa al-leil i.
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Women of the night” and directed “Tanablet al-Sultaan i.
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The Sultan's idle followers”.
His films “Al-mar’a al-maghoula i.
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Mrs.
X”, “Akwa men al-hayaah i.
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Stronger than life” and “Tareek al-Domou’ i.
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Tears Road” mark the beginning of maturity as an actor playing more complicated roles.
“Al-Karnak” declared the beginning of a new stage for the grand Al-Shennaawy.
Of his popular TV series are: “Zeinab wal–‘arsh i.
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Zeinab and the throne” , “Hend wal-doctor No’maan i.
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Hend and Dr.
No’maan”, “’Oyoun al-hobb i.
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Eyes of love”, “Le dawaa’y amneyya i.
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Security measures” and “Aakher al-meshwaar i.
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The end of the road”.
Kamaal married several times.
Among his ex wives was belly dancer Haaguer Hamdy, actors ‘Afaaf Shaaker and Naahed Shereef.
Mahrous, a simple man, is acquainted with the minister as they both hail from the same village. When Mahrous gets appointed at the minister's office, he only causes trouble. However, as the two get involved in extra-marital relationships, they form a strange bond and become square in many endeavors.
Ahmed heads to Tahrir compound to extract papers to move his son to another school. There he clashes with the administrative obstacles. He suddenly finds himself involved in carrying a weapon and taking hostages at the government building and becomes a terrorist in the process.
Jasser sneaks into Yassin's house to steal, but he senses a strange movement, as Saadia, the servant Ibrahim's wife, tries to find out who is in the house, so he kills her and Yassin. During that, Ibrahim arrives, and his daughter Naima testifies against him after seeing him holding a knife next to her mother's body, so he is imprisoned, and events escalate.
Regarded as one of the boldest films of the "liberal" 1970s, this award-winning classic is directed by the great Hussein Kamal and written by the controversial Ihsan Abdel Quoddous and featuring a superb cast. A color saturated melodrama and a profound analysis of seventies society and decadence.
This film, inspired by Naguib Mahfouz' The thief and the dogs, tells the story of Mahran, a thief who quickly ascends to be the head of his gang. However, his second in command conspires against Mahran to take his position and his wife. After his prison term, Mahran is thirsty for revenge. But being chased by the police and by his new enemies destines him to a tragic life in hiding.
Ashraf Hamdi works as a supporting actor, and lives a peaceful life, but he leaves his only friend Saeed and his lover and colleague Faiza on the day he signed a contract to play a leading role opposite the great singing star Samia Fouad. He considered his acquaintance with Samia the first step towards achieving his goal, so he married her.
Awatif, the dancer, loves Jamil, the musician at the nightclub where she works, even though they are both married. The lovers get a chance to be together after Jamil's wife travels to the summer resort with her children, and Nabil, Awatif's husband, travels to Lebanon. When he visits her at home, the police arrest him, thinking he is Nabil. He goes to prison, and Jamil is released from prison after discovering the mistake and decides to take revenge for what happened to him.
Samya is a girl who is on the look for her white knight. First, she falls for the anchor Ahmed but after he proposes, she finds herself falling for the athlete Mokhtar. Then she falls for Dr. Galal, only to find herself unable to choose between the three of them.
The story revolves around Suha, the spoiled and only daughter of her father and engaged to Essam. During a trip she falls from a hill and loses her eyesight, her fiancée abandons her. Suha loses confidence in herself and all the people around her, and refuses to proceed to do another surgery after the failure of the first one. Doctor Salah tries to persuade her and pressure her through Essam to agree to the operation.
A weak father and an authoritarian mother teaches her young daughter to dance, and dreams of being rich by her daughter after working in a nightclub. She was identified by the wealthy (Amin), the manager of her father's company, Shehata Effendi, and became his mistress. From the company, when the people of the neighborhood saw him went to her mother and stabbed her intended to kill her, but she survived death, and became blind, and entered the prison. The daughter identified the lawyer (Hussein) and loved him, and severed her relationship with (Amin), and on the day of her marriage discovered that he was the son of (Amin), and returned to dance and play and alcohol until she got asthma, and then hit a car, broke her foot, sustained permanent disability, and lost her savings, She returned to the neighborhood with her blind mother, and her father came out of the prison and reunion, and then Han (Hussein), he came to marry her, but the fate was closer to him.
Ismail Yassin and his relatives have to spend a month living in a haunted house in order to collect their inheritance.
Henry Barakat directed adaptation of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo.
Two young friends, one is a musician and singer, and the other is a poet and writer. The singer meets a girl and his heart falls for her, and she reciprocates his feelings. They do not know each other until love grows between them. The writer also loves the same girl, who we know is a professional singer in a nightclub.
The trio of a Wife and her lover plotting a murder for her husband. Their maid gets into Jail instead of them. This maid had a daughter that gets to be raised by her friend. The wife gets into jail shortly after she was arrested for misusing the well of her son. In Jail she meets with her maid and confess to her with her sin that led to this destiny, then she dies. After twenty years she gets out of Jail to see what has the fate introduce to her daughter and the killers daughter that share same lover.