A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Hatem Zu El-fakar
حاتم ذو الفقار
Birthplace:
Cairo, Egypt
Born:
January 5, 1952
Died:
February 15, 2012
Hatem Mohamed Mahmoud Rady, or as his lovers know him, is a late Egyptian actor born in 1952 at the Martyrs Center in Menoufia. He then moved with his family to live in the Abbasid area of Cairo. The second year in order to join the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts and then got a bachelor's degree in the Department of Acting and Direction, and began his artistic career across the National Theater and then resigned from him in 1986; And then participated in many films such as: (Age observed In 1978, (Antar Shail Saifh) in 1983, (Al-Madbah) in 1985 and other distinctive films, and then moved away from the limelight after a car accident that then affected his ability to move, until his death in 2011.
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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.