Nadia Gamal
Biography
An Egyptian actress and dancer, born in Alexandria to a Greek father and an Italian mother. She was discovered by Farid El Atrash, and became known as Nadia Gamal. She started dancing at the age of 15, and worked in dance shows in Cairo nightclubs. She also appeared in Lebanese and Indian films. She passed away in 1990 from cancer.
Known For & Full Filmography20 Titles
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The film presents the topic of migration, cultural contrast and human alienation, through a group of young people who are forced to migrate, facing severe social pressures and having difficulty in adapting to their new environments.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A joint Iraqi–Lebanese film built on comedic contrasts, centered on two carefree young men who wreak havoc in the city. When they unexpectedly encounter love, their lives begin to improve and they set themselves on a better path.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A poor farmer finds a huge jewel buried in the mud, aided by one of the village's elderly men. They find themselves at a loss as the jewel is so huge that there is no buyer for it and thieves are trying to seize it, but they fail while greedy merchants are trying to buy it cheaply.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Garo is an outlaw who, upon his release from prison, returns to violence against his will. Once again pursued by the police, he flees to Syria and only returns to Beirut in 1961, disguised as a Bedouin. He forms a drug-dealing gang.
Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Young man Farid relies heavily on his luck, working in a casino in Beirut, and when he meets the artist Jihan and falls in love with her, his life changes forever.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Mounir grows up between two anxious parents. The mother knows that her husband frequents the apartment of singer Nihad. Mounir tries to find out his mother's secret. She tells him that his father spent all his savings on Ghania. He decides to keep his father away from Nihad. He goes to the night club where she works, so that she can fall in love with him. He plays the role of a lovelorn lover for her, and begins to recover the money that his father spends on her.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Ramdev Bakshi is the only son of widower and former Indian Army General Durgaprasad, who has been decorated several times with various medals for bravery shown in the line of duty. Alas this did leave him crippled, after he lost a leg during the war with Pakistan. Ramdev is also enlisted in the army, but he is peace-loving and detests war. He has a sweetheart in village belle Suman Mehra, and both hope to get married soon. He does answer the call from the army and joins active duty, only to be arrested and court-martial-ed for disobeying orders. After being dishonorably discharged, he disappears from Suman and his father's lives. Years later, Suman enters a beauty contest and is crowned Miss India. She travels with her mom to Britain, where she meets with Ramdev.
Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Dancer
On the wedding night of the girl he raised, the singer (Wahid) recalls memories of his love for her mother, whom he loved at the beginning of his life and wanted to marry, but her father refused because of the social difference between them, and after one of her visits to him, his friend offered to give her a ride, she accepted and became involved with him after he seduces her.
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Dancer
Souad is in love with the daughter of one of the merchants (Ahmed), who works for her father, but her father forces her to marry the teacher (Sayed), so she marries him, but she suffers a lot in her married life, but as fate would have it, her husband is involved in an accident while he is travelling.
Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Loza
Two orphaned sisters, one working as a singer (Sabah), and the other working as a dancer (Nadia Jamal), decide to escape from their mother and her husband who takes their money. They go to a famous singer (Farid al-Atrash) to work in his band. He discovers the talent of the singer and falls for her.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
When a man gets out of prison, he starts looking for work, but he discovers that he is alone with no family, so he decides to return to prison again. He starts to commit many crimes to return to prison, but fails to attract the attention of the police.
Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • as Samiya
Leila who lives with her uncle in Amman, meets a boy named Kamal Hamdy who works in a pharmacy. One day, Kamal saves Leila's uncle from drowning in swimming pool. Some time later, Leila's uncle dies and gives his wealth to Kamal, but Raouf, Leila's cousin, who considers himself the heir, plans to kill Kamal by hiring two people.
Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as الراقصة في العرس
(Atiya Abu Hadid) is a thug and a thief who leads a gang to commit his crimes. He loves one of the neighborhood girls (Naana’a), who is engaged to her cousin (Al-Atra), a soldier in the army, who goes to participate in the Palestine war, so the atmosphere is clear for Atiya. He devises a plan to make the master (Hassan), Naana’a’s brother, fall in love with Zenouba, a girl whom Atiya exploits for his own despicable purposes.
Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Directed by Muhammad Selman.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as رقصة العرس- ضيفة شرف
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Musk and his friend are two young men who love two of their cousins. Musk disguises himself as a woman to convince the uncle of the girl he loves and the girl's father that the aunt has returned from abroad. The uncle falls in love with the woman and covets her wealth. He agrees for the two girls to marry Musk and Amber. Amber's uncle comes to compete with the uncle, and the American aunt herself comes from the United States.