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Veteran Egyptian actor Fekry Sadeq dies at 80

Sadeq was born on 9 January 1945 in Cairo. A Higher Institute of Theatrical Arts graduate, he began his artistic journey in the early 1970s, taking roles in theatre, cinema and TV series. Among his first theatre appearances was in the play Husbands Without a Past (1975). Though Sadeq focused on film and television series as an actor, he occasionally returned to theatre stages, performing in several commercial works such as Body Guard (1999) starring Adel Emam. Throughout more than 50 years of his career, Sadeq worked with renowned directors and alongside well-known Egyptian actors. He appeared in more than 40 films, including Forbidden Pictures (1972), The Time of Emad Al-Din (2002), Touch Me Love (2005), Hassan w Morcos (2008), Court Arguments (2014), Narrow Lane (2015), Mohamed Ali Street (2017), among others.