Mohamed Saad (actor)

Saad studied at the Higher Institute of Theatrical Arts in Egypt, then he started his career in theater in late 1980s. After several supporting roles, Saad took the lead in El-Limby (2002; the name, that of Saad's character, is a play on the name of one of Egypt's colonial figures, High Commissioner Edmund Allenby). Playing the film's "illiterate, inefficient, slow, stoned and drunk" hero, Saad "invests his first leading role with a hyperactive physical energy especially evident in dance sequences." The comedy became one of the highest-grossing films in Egyptian cinema.[1]

Between 2003 and 2005, Saad played similar characters in three further films including one of his most successful movies Ely Baly Balak.

In 2006, Saad starred in Katkout, in which he played a hopeless Upper Egyptian who stumbles into a career as a boxer and crimefighter.[2] Cairo online magazine Yallabina criticized the film for relying on Saad's physical comedy at the expense of story and script.[3]

TV Series

• Wama zal alnayl yajri - 1992 (ar: وما زال النيل يجري) - And the Nile is still running
• Ayam Almunira - 1994 (ar: أيام المنيرة) - Days of Almunira (district in Cairo)
• Qisat Madina - 1995 (ar: قصة مدينة) - A city story
• Wamin aldhy la yuhibu Fatima - 1996 (ar: ومن الذي لا يحب فاطمة) - Who does not like Fatima?
• Marfu' Muaqataan Min Alkhidma - 1997 (ar: مرفوع مؤقتا من الخدمة) - Temporarily out of service
• Alsharie Aljadid - 1997 (ar: الشارع الجديد) - The new street
• Fawazir Tayatru - 1998 (ar: فوازير تياترو)
• Al'iesar - 1999 (ar: الاعصار) - The Cyclone
• Fawazir Aleial Atjananat - 1999 (ar: فوازير العيال اتجننت) - Fawazir Children went crazy
• Alfajala - 2000 (ar: الفجالة)
• Shams Al Ansari - 2012 (ar: شمس الأنصاري)
• Viva Atata - 2014 (ar: فيفا أطاطا); acted as El-Limby/Atata

Films

• Alesh Dakhal El-Gesh - 1989 (ar: عليش دخل الجيش) - Alesh entered the army
• El-Tariq Ela Eilat - 1993 (ar: الطريق إلى إيلات) - The Road to Eilat
• The Gentle - 1996 (ar: الجنتل)
• Emra' wa khams Rijal - 1997 (ar: امرأه وخمس رجال) - A woman and five men
• El-Nazer - 2000 (ar: الناظر) - The Principal; acted as El-Limby
• 55 Esaaf - 2001 (ar: إسعاف 55) - Ambulance 55
• El-Limby - 2002 (ar: اللمبى); acted as El-Limby
• Ely Baly Balak - 2003 (ar: اللي بالي بالك); acted as El-Limby
• Oukal - 2004 (ar: عوكل)
• Bouha - 2005 (ar: بوحة)
• Katkout - 2006 (ar: كتكوت)
• Karkar - 2007 (ar: كركر)
• Boshkash - 2008 (ar: بوشكاش, named after, but unrelated to Puskás)
• El-Limby 8 Gega - 2010 (ar: االلمبى 8 جيجا); acted as El-Limby
• Tak Tak Boom - 2011 (ar: تك تك بوم)
• Tatah - 2013 (ar: تتح)
• Hayati Mubhdila - 2015 (ar: حياتي مبهدلة) - My life is wasted
• Taht Al Tarabiza - 2016 (ar: تحت الترابيزة) - Under the table
• Al Kinz - 2017 (ar: الكنز) - The treasure
• Mohamed Hussein - 2019 (ar: محمد حسين)
• Al Kinz 2 - 2019 (ar:2 الكنز) - The treasure 2