Kanaan Wasfy
- Actor
- Singer
- Composer
Also known as: كنعان وصفي · كنعان وصفى
An Iraqi actor, composer, and singer, born in the city of Mosul in 1932. He began working in the field of painting, then worked as a singer in one of the nightclubs in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, which made many artists pay attention to his talent. Then he collaborated with a number of Egyptian artists and composed melodies for their songs, including Faida Kamel and Karem Mahmoud. Then he moved to acting in cinema at the beginning of the sixties, and his films include: (Al-Nasser Salah al-Din, Amir al-Daha, Fares Bani Hamdan, Love in the Year 70, Al-Shaima), and he also starred in the series (Hisab Al-Sunnah, Al-Fursan, Al-Heroes, The Fall in Beersheba). He died in 2000 at the age of 68.
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Frequent Collaborators
Hossam El Dine Mostafa9 shared works
Tawfiq Al-Deqen7 shared works
Youssef Fakhr El Din6 shared works
Farid Shawqy5 shared works
Rushdy Abaza5 shared works
Shams El-Barudy4 shared works
Abdel Ghani El Nagdi4 shared works
Adel Adham4 shared works
Ahmed Loxer4 shared works
ElTokhy Tawfiq4 shared works
Mokhtar El Sayed4 shared works
Fayek Bahgat4 shared worksPhotos
1Full Filmography
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The Flame of Vengeance
1993 · actor
Mission In Tel Aviv
1992 · actor · ⭐ 5.0
Desert Boy
1991 · actor
Word of Honour
1973 · actor · ⭐ 7.0
Alshayatin fi 'ajaza
1973 · actor
My Son
1972 · actor
The return of the world's most dangerous man
1972 · actor · ⭐ 6.5
Al-Shaima
1972 · actor · ⭐ 8.0
The kidnappers
1972 · actor
Desire and Loss
1972 · actor
Zero hour
1972 · actor
Shayatteen El-bahr
1972 · actor
حياة خطرة
1971 · actor
The fox and the chameleon
1970 · actor
Me, my wife and the secretary
1970 · actor
Al-Hob Sanat 70
1969 · actor · ⭐ 6.0
She and the devils
1969 · actor
الشجعان الثلاثة
1969 · actor
Cairo in a Thousand Years
1969 · actor
The Most Dangerous Man in the World
1967 · actor · ⭐ 7.0
Fares Bani Hemdan
1966 · actor
The Penalty
1965 · actor · ⭐ 8.7
A Bachelor’s Life
1963 · actor
Seraa fil jebel
1961 · actor · ⭐ 8.0
Ismail Yassine in Prison
1960 · actor · ⭐ 7.5