AbdulHusain AbdulRedha
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Biography: Abdulhussain Abdulredha (1939-2017) was a pioneering Kuwaiti actor, playwright, and comedian, widely regarded as one of the most iconic figures in Gulf and Arab entertainment. Born on July 15, 1939, in Kuwait City, Abdulredha was a central figure in the development of the Kuwaiti theater scene and a beloved personality across the Arab world. Abdulredha's career spanned over five decades, during which he became known for his sharp wit, charismatic stage presence, and his ability to blend comedy with social and political commentary. His work often reflected the cultural and social issues of Kuwait and the broader Gulf region, tackling topics like family dynamics, political corruption, and societal changes with humor and insight. One of his most famous works is the 1981 play "Bye Bye London," which humorously explores the experiences of Gulf Arabs in Western societies. Abdulredha's performances were characterized by their relatability and his unique ability to connect with audiences from all walks of life. In addition to his theatrical work, Abdulredha appeared in numerous television series and films, further cementing his status as a household name. His influence extended beyond entertainment, as he became a cultural ambassador for Kuwait and the Gulf, helping to shape the region's identity in the arts. Abdulredha's contributions to Arab entertainment were recognized with numerous awards and accolades throughout his life. He passed away on August 11, 2017, in London, but his legacy continues to live on, with his work still celebrated and loved by fans across the Arab world.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kuwait
Birthday: December 06, 1939
Deathday: August 11, 2017
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Gender: Male
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Bye Bye London
Overview: A comedy about an old married man that travels to London with his nephew who does his to save him from exposure to fraud, and being mugged in London, the play also covers some political aspects and projections in addition to social criticism of some of the Arab situations.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1982-01-22
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24 hours
Overview: The events revolve around a man who takes his wife to the doctor, as he suspects that she has gone crazy, after which many funny situations take place between them to find out her condition and whether she has really lost her mind or not.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-05-13
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Seize the Day
Overview: In Seize Your Day, a greedy fabric merchant’s selfishness sparks endless conflicts, leading him to lose both business and relationships in a satirical take on the folly of unchecked ambition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-06-01
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The Judge Radhi
Overview: Radi The Judge
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1970-06-24
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Besat Al Fagr
Overview: Three young men propose to a girl, one of whom is rich, the second is handsome, and the third is poor who owns nothing except a flying magic carpet. She decides to marry the poor man and travels with him to Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, and India along the magic carpet.
Genres: Music Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Fifty Years Old Teenager
Overview: The life of a married 50-year-old doctor turns topsy-turvy when he falls in love with a younger woman and begins to act like a teenager.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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In a Blink
Overview: Driven by a thirst for fame, prestige, and the spotlight, a servant office owner ventures into the competitive world of sports. When he assumes leadership of a troubled sports club, he stumbles upon the hidden complexities of the industry. However, his lack of knowledge and experience in sports matters only compounds the club's issues, leading to unexpected challenges and deeper entanglements in a world he thought he understood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2004-12-10
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A Killer For Rent
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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A Killer For Rent
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Means Well
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Fasting Operetta
Overview: The story explores the daily lives of a married couple during Ramadan, capturing how they navigate fasting, work, worship, household responsibilities, and parenting. Through their challenges and small victories, the couple learns to balance tradition and modern demands, highlighting the spirit of Ramadan within family life.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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After the Honey
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Genres: Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Honeymoon Operetta
Overview: This Kuwaiti comedy operetta follows newlyweds Rashid and Amina as marital tensions arise. Frustrated by Rashid’s modest income and his complaints about her father, Amina directs her anger at Rashid’s mother, leading to a cascade of humorous conflicts.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1979-03-11
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Pre-Marital Flirting
Overview: Rashid, a modest meter reader, is smitten with Amina, a gentle and beautiful woman. Visiting her home daily under the pretense of reading the electricity meter, he uses every encounter to charm her. Though she initially resists, Amina gradually falls for his endearing persistence, sparking a warm and playful romance.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Operetta, Oh Time
Overview: This lighthearted Kuwaiti operetta takes audiences on a nostalgic journey back to old Kuwait, capturing the charm and simplicity of life in a bygone era. Through lively musical numbers and comedic sketches, the operetta showcases beloved children’s games, bustling traditional cafes, and the lively alleyways of Kuwait's neighborhoods. As characters relive their joyful memories, "What a Time!" celebrates the unique cultural heritage of Kuwait, offering a playful, heartfelt glimpse into the community spirit and everyday joys of the past.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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The Deterioration
Overview: The work follows a man struggling with alcohol addiction, exploring its destructive effects on his family, finances, home, and the future of his children. Set in a dramatic context, it highlights the far-reaching consequences of addiction on both personal and familial stability.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Game of Fate
Overview: In Game of Fate, we follow Haji Ibrahim, a humble man struggling to build a better life for his family amid the social and economic hardships of 1960s Kuwait. Despite his determination, he finds himself at the mercy of fate, facing unexpected challenges that threaten to derail his dreams. Supported by his resilient wife Amina and caught in complex relationships with those around him, Haji Ibrahim’s journey captures a compelling story of ambition, sacrifice, and the unpredictable twists of life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1960-07-01
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The Sword Of The Arabs
Overview: The play deals in a social comic framework, the period of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and what was experienced by Kuwaitis and Iraqis alike during the aggression period, through the social changes that occurred in both societies in that period.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1992-02-16
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Not To Hamman, Pharaoh
Overview: A Kuwaiti comedic romance drama following the story of an accountant that fell in love with the daughter of his employer.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1977-08-21
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The Victim Of The House Of The Pride
Overview: A Kuwaiti comedy play that revolves around Saif, a loyal and diligent worker whom experiences difficulties at home which lead to disastrous results.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Early Bird Gets the Worm
Overview: A married man suffers from the tyranny and tyranny of his wife's mother and its great influence on her, so he tries in various ways to urge his wife to form her independent personality, and get rid of her mother's influence, which may negatively affect their relationship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1969-01-07
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A World of Women and a Man
Overview: A kuwaiti play starring Abdulhussain Abdulredha and Nawal Abu Alfutooh.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1972-06-01
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At Odds
Overview: In this Kuwaiti comedy, Dr. Salem, a veterinarian, is desperate to convince his fiancée, Samia, that he's a physician for humans, not animals. To pull off the ruse, he enlists his assistant to disguise the clinic's true purpose, leading to a series of humorous mishaps and misunderstandings. As the charade unfolds, comic twists ensue, putting both his relationship and his secret at risk.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1968-04-06
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The Storm
Overview: The Kuwaiti short film العاصفة (The Storm) explores Kuwait's social and economic shifts before and after the discovery of oil. Through the perspectives of an older father and his modernized son, it delves into the challenges of tradition versus rapid modernization.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-08-26
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The Joy Of A Nation
Overview: A Kuwaiti social comedy play presented to the leaders of the Gulf states at the Gulf Summit in 1985, which was written by Abdul-Hussein Abdul-Ridha, a satirical play that discusses family issues, family bonding and religious extremism, the play talks about the loss of children and the home, neglect of parents, and who is responsible for that.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1984-02-25
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30 Days of Love
Overview: The play takes place in a romantic comedy about the spoiled girl (Dalal), who falls in love with the pharmacist (Fahd), and her father asks him to trick her into loving her for thirty days.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1973-04-19
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Bye Bye Arab
Overview: Kuwaiti social theatrics speaks about the life of the Arab citizen and his quest for Arab unity through the personality of (Arabs) who helps (genie Morgan) by going with him on a journey to reunite and unite the Arabs, but he is shocked by a bitter reality with which it is impossible to achieve this dream.
Genres: Drama Comedy Documentary
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1986-04-29
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Kuwait in 2000
Overview: "Kuwait in 2000" is a Kuwaiti comedy play that explores the future of Kuwait during, and after the decline of oil, produced on February 5, 1965
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1966-02-05
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Mehgan Arrives Tonight
Overview: The role of the events of the play about Bader, who works as a manager in his uncle's mayor's company, he sent to his uncle a letter that he was married in order not to marry his daughter Aisha, and when he Know that his uncle is coming from traveling, he was afraid that his matter would be revealed, and he decided to borrow the wife of his friend Fahad, so that the role of the wife would be played during the period of his uncle's presence .
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1969-12-10
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Husband Needed Immediately
Overview: Husband Needed Immediately to married a wealthy woman in order to get to her old Husband since she get divorced 3 times
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1971-12-15
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The Court of the District
Overview: The Court of The district is a comedy play of the daily problems in the Kuwaiti Families which is solved in the Court
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-03-12
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The Bachelor Of Al Salmiya
Overview: Hilal Haji Ramadan is a single person in Salmiya who is a reckless and wasteful person, which leads not to multiply debts on him and chasing his debtors, and he has a friend who is a doctor close to him, but on the contrary, he is a human being, a messenger and a shark lover. A day will come and meet Hilal his princess while she falls in the Salmiya market, and her princess is the beautiful rich girl. He falls in love with her, and the irony lies in that she herself is his fiancée, his close friend, and the events continue until the princess admires Hilal and his opposite personality of his friend and falls in love with Hilal.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1979-05-03
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Al-Manakh Knights
Overview: The first Gulf economic play centered on an issue that affected members of Kuwaiti society, which sparked widespread controversy between Kuwaiti society and the Gulf community in general, and the issue was the "Al Manakh Market" crisis in 1982, which ended in losses exceeding $ 22 billion. Where the story tells about the second oil boom of the Gulf states at the end of the seventies and the beginning of the eighties of the twentieth century AD where the price of oil increased continuously until the Gulf countries recorded large financial surpluses, so the money poured into the stock market significantly until it opened a stock trading office in a semi-parallel office and was named a market "Al Manakh" in which money flowed greatly from almost all segments of Kuwaiti society and even foreign residents and some individuals from the Gulf states and increased frantic speculation and increased buying and selling for the future until it reached astronomical numbers.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1983-02-23
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Samet Sons
Overview: A Kuwaiti play talks about the life of Kuwaitis in the years of poverty experienced by Kuwaitis before the economic boom in the seventies, and discusses work in a comic framework of economic and social problems, including poverty, education, and health, by dealing with the stories of work heroes.
Genres: Drama Family Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-11-26
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Also, Hello Dolly
Overview: Egyptian socialite Dalal is determined to win over Kuwaiti businessman Abdullah, who’s fallen for Dolly, a Lebanese seamstress. Dalal’s wild schemes to sabotage their romance lead to a hilarious clash of love and cultural quirks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1974-05-14
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Pre-Marital Flirting
Overview: Rashid, a modest meter reader, is smitten with Amina, a gentle and beautiful woman. Visiting her home daily under the pretense of reading the electricity meter, he uses every encounter to charm her. Though she initially resists, Amina gradually falls for his endearing persistence, sparking a warm and playful romance.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Qannas Khaitan
Overview: Qannas Khaitan is a Kuwaiti comedy play highlighting the challenges faced by expatriates and locals in Khaitan district. Residents unite to form a council to stand against exploitative landlords, sparking humorous clashes and character-driven moments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2002-12-17
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The bird landed, the bird flew away
Overview: A play that revolves around the lives of two parents from two different social classes, namely (Bou Fariala) with his son and daughter, who are from the wealthy class, and (Bou Hilan) with his son (Hilan), who are from the poor class, but they are neighbors and brothers.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1971-03-10
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Vacation
Overview: The events revolve around a man who lives an unstable and suspicious life, then it develops and becomes doubtful of everyone around him, causing him great damage to his life and his relationships.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1968-10-20
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Appointment with Death
Overview: A TV Movie about a rich businessman who is told that he will die after several hours of a stroke.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-10-20
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