A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
الكويت
Kuwaiti actor and makeup artist, born on 6 July 1942. He was one of the first actors who contributed to spreading the theatrical movement in Kuwait. His beginnings were on the school stage and summer clubs. His onscreen debut was on the series Bu Jassum's Family (1962). He joined the Arab Theater Troupe in 1965 and made his stage debut in 1969. After which his works continued between cinema, theater and television, most notably The Trap, Wounds of Life, and Time of the Cobbler. He passed away on 17 January 2019.
Makeup & Hair:
1979 The Rug of Poverty
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.