Saleh Selim

Saleh Selim

Acting
1930-09-11
Egypt

Biography

Saleh Muhammad Selim was a football player who starred in films during the sixties. He was the son of a doctor. He joined Al Ahly SC in 1947. Selim obtained a BA in commerce in 1952. He is the father of Hisham Selim, and he starred in three films; The Seven Girls, The Black Candles, and The Open Door. He died of cancer in London.

Known For & Full Filmography3 Titles

#1The Black Candles

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as Ahmed Assem

7.7 / 10
DramaRomance

The film follows the story of Iman (Najat), an innocent nurse, who receives a new assignment; She is nursing a blind man named Ahmed (Saleh Selim). Eman encounters a major problem while doing her job; It is that Ahmed suffers from a psychological complex, as a result of which he hates all women, and hence Iman intends not only to nurse him, but to remove that complex. events get complicated; Since Fathi, Ahmed's brother, is harassing Iman, and he wants to get her in any way, and he plots for Iman and Ahmed, taking advantage of his brother's disability.

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#2The Seven Daughters

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m as نبيل

8.0 / 10
RomanceDrama

The story of an iron-willed man who looks after his seven daughters after the death of their mother, as his three older daughters, Ahlam, Wedad, and Salwa, fall in love and suffer the agonies of it, only for their dad to try to save them the heartache.

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#3The Open Door

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Hussein Amer

6.4 / 10
DramaRomance

Based on the novel by Latifa al-Zayyat, which explores a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of age against the background of the growing Egyptian nationalist movement before the 1952 Egypt revolution.

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