A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
محمود الفيشاوي
Birthplace:
Cairo, Egypt
Died:
January 18, 2010
he was born on March 16, 1950, and after forty years of working in government departments during which he rose to the position of the first undersecretary of the Ministry of Electricity, Mahmoud El Fishawy finally fulfilled his dream of becoming an actor by playing the role of Galal in the movie 1000 Mabrok staring Ahmed Helmy. He later also participated in an advertising campaign for one of the international soft water companies with Ahmed Makki, as well he was preparing to star in a new movie entitled The Bus, written and directed by Mohamed Diab, until he died on January 18, 2010, at the age of sixty after suffering from a heart attack.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.