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Filmmaker · Egypt

Mohamed Bayoumi

Died in 1963

Mohamed Bayoumi was born in Tanta on 3 January 1894. After leaving the military school, he served as an officer, in Sudan among other places. After the national uprising of 1919, he founded with the actor Bishara Wakim the Nile Valley troupe, then left to study photography and cinema in Europe. Back in 1923, he opened the Amon Film studio, made the country's first newsreel and in 1932 founded a film institute in Alexandria, according to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. He died in Alexandria on 15 July 1963.

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