Duraid Lahham
Also Known As: دريد لحام, Дурайд Лахам, غوار الطوشة, دريد محمد حسن لحام, Ghawar El Toshe, Duraid Laham, Durreid Lahham
Biography: Duraid Muhammad Hassan al-Lahhaam is a Syrian actor-director born in al-Kumayreyya, Damascus in 1934. His talent appeared in 1958 on the university stage at the faculty of Science where he majored in chemistry and later taught it. His artistic career began in the sixties, when the director Sabah Qabbani offered him to participate in Damascene Night (سهرة دمشق). At the same time, he formed an artistic duet with the artist Nihad Qalei until the mid-seventies, he also cooperated with the poet and playwright Muhammad Al-Maghut in several successful works. He created the Syrian character called “Ghawwar al-Tawsheh” who became a household name in Syria and the Arab world. Among his plays, as actor-director, are Cheers, My Homeland (كاسك يا وطن), Ghorba (الغربة) and October Village (ضيعة تشرين). Among his television works are Hammam Al-Hana (حمام الهنا), My Family and I (عائلتي وانا) and The Return of Ghawwaar (عودة غوار). The Borders (الحدود) and The Report (التقرير) are among the films he directed.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Damascus, Syria
Birthday: February 09, 1934
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Sands of Gold
Overview: Tarek loves his cousin Zubaida and travels to Spain to work in bullfighting under a pseudonym. Zubaida comes to Spain in search of her lover, but despite his pleas for her to return to Morocco, she continues to follow him.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Adorable Thief
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1970-03-13
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The Three Swindlers
Overview: The millionaire Sobhi lives in his luxurious palace, and he feels happy because his friend Ghoar is the one who serves him. Life seemed to give Sobhi a lot, and now Ghoar has turned into a servant. A gang seeks to seize Sobhi's money, and they manage to steal it. Sobhi works as a waiter in a restaurant. Ghoar inherits a sum of money and becomes rich.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Mesk and Anbar
Overview: Musk and his friend are two young men who love two of their cousins. Musk disguises himself as a woman to convince the uncle of the girl he loves and the girl's father that the aunt has returned from abroad. The uncle falls in love with the woman and covets her wealth. He agrees for the two girls to marry Musk and Amber. Amber's uncle comes to compete with the uncle, and the American aunt herself comes from the United States.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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The Pearl Necklace
Overview: Salim is a simple farmer who loves Bedour and wants to marry her. He comes across a letter that he thinks is written to his lover, but it turns out that it's written by Bedour whom Ghawar loves and he returns from overseas with a pearl necklace for her.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-04-12
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Hotel of Dreams
Overview: Two friends work as guards at a luxurious villa, whose owner only comes at long intervals. They turn it into a hotel but the owner suddenly comes with his fiancée, and he discovers the situation,causing funny situations to happen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1968-04-13
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I Am Antar
Overview: A psychiatrist hypnotizes his female patients and robs them while they are under. The company where he committed one of his crimes enlists the help of a private detective to find out who is the perpetrator of the robberies.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Two Friends
Overview: A strict father refuses to let his beautiful daughter marry the young pilot she loves, believing that the life of a pilot is filled with danger. The pilot sees a dead end, but that does not prevent him from using his cunning to persuade his beloved's father of their marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1970-03-21
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My Hippy Wife
Overview: A humble man encounters a group of hippies and develops feelings for one of them. As they get married, they cannot find a place to stay, and he resorts to a friend of his who abhors all hippies. Can their stay at his house alter his prespective?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1973-04-29
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The Mexican Hoax
Overview: Tayseer, a conservative man, has grown with a particular hang-up caused by his sister's marriage without his consent. When a man proposes to his daughter Kawthar, Tayseer vehemently opposes their relationship, even if the two are deeply in love. Is it too late to rid him of his hang-up?
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Vagabonds
Overview: Two sworn friends, who commit fraud against women and compete in hunting victims of wealthy women, decide to cooperate after one of them threatens the other to expose his plays, and they stay in a luxury hotel, in order to cast nets on a beautiful millionaire girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1968-06-21
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The Two Drifters (Al Sharidan)
Overview: When a man gets out of prison, he starts looking for work, but he discovers that he is alone with no family, so he decides to return to prison again. He starts to commit many crimes to return to prison, but fails to attract the attention of the police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-06-21
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Al-Muziafoun
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-06-21
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Shaqayiq Al Nueman
Overview: Anemone is a Syrian play of purposeful and distinctive plays in the Arab world, and it is one of the socio-political plays, written by Muhammad Al-Maghout. The starring role was played by the artist Duraid Lahham and the Syrian Tishreen theatrical family, including Salma Al-Masri and a number of creative Syrian artists and artists
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1987-06-10
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Rain Maker
Overview: “The Rain Maker” is a Syrian play starring artist Duraid Lahham and the Syrian theater group Tishreen Family. It is the last play with Duraid Lahham in the lead role. The story of the play challenges citizens to realize their dreams and find solutions to their problems themselves, without waiting for others to solve them. Caesar (Duraid Lahham) was able to bring rain from the earth after everyone was waiting for it to fall from the sky, and this is how the events unfold.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1992-06-10
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The Fox
Overview: The story of two men work in the gold trade and how a gang trying to steal the gold sends a beautiful girl to enter their lives and pretend to love one of them. Her plan seems to be working, until she actually falls in love with one of them.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1971-01-11
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Cheers, My Homeland
Overview: A social-political comedy play, considered one of the most legendary critical and purposeful Arab comedies.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1979-07-24
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Damascus... Aleppo
Overview: An introverted former broadcaster chooses to detach himself from the overwhelming situation his country is going through, but the news of his daughter getting besieged in Aleppo break through his shield. A portrayal of the fragile and voluntary detachment as a coping mechanism with war and trauma.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2019-03-21
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Love in Istanbul
Overview: Queen Nazli's daughter disappears at a young age, and the queen dies without seeing her. The heirs take advantage of the disappearance of the daughter to divide the wealth among them, but when the daughter suddenly appears, they try to stop her from having the wealth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1966-01-27
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Kafrun
Overview: In a mountain village called Kfaroun, Wadud works as a janitor in the school, where he has loving relationships with the young students. But his mother Sukhur demands that he avenge his father's killer and objects him marrying his fiancée. While Noor, the spoiled city girl is the new school teacher.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Fish Without Spines
Overview: Walid travels abroad in search of work opportunity and self actualization, after promising to return to his sweetheart Laila who is waiting for him back home.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Bir Damat Aranıyor
Overview: Intersection of the roads of twins allotted years ago.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1968-01-11
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One + one
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Imra'a Taskon Wahdaha
Overview: Two friends are trying to find a suitable place to stay. They find a suitable residence for a woman to live alone. The owner of the house rents a room in the apartment to the two friends without the woman knowing during her absence, which generates funny ironies among everyone.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1971-04-22
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The Report
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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لقاء في تدمر
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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The Millionaire
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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El Ragol El Monaseeb
Overview: A Lebanese company sends a representative to the Cairo branch to discover the secret of the branch's losses. This representative disguises himself as a newly transferred messenger. He notices that a love story is developing between the daughter of the failed manager and the public relations employee, and he tries to reveal to the girl what is happening.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1970-01-15
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Two Days
Overview: A compelling and profound story that explores the resilience of the human spirit in times of crises and wars.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2024-06-02
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The Borders
Overview: A traveler between two countries metaphorically named "Easternstan" and "Westernstan" loses his passport and identity papers. Stuck between the two countries he can neither cross the frontiers nor get back to where he came from. He's forced to camp in the neutral area between the two countries, facing a lot of funny situations while there. The movie satirizes the ideology of Arab unity and cooperation at the state level.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1984-01-02
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Wake Up
Overview: Due to the great success of the original TV series from 1972, this movie was created with almost identical actors and a slightly different plot. Two friends find themselves in an unexpected conflict when one of them, an employee working in a small hotel, falls for the hotel owner, but she is in love with his friend, a painter who has been staying in the same hotel for a long time, which creates jealousy and conflict between the two friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Womens' Tailor
Overview: Saber Effendi works as a tailor for men, but his major problem is that he suffers from a great depression because of his lack of fashion and refuses to develop his ideas about fashion until his wife, Huda, who works in a Syrian magazine interested in fashion, suggests that he change his activity to become a tailor for women rather than men. Implementation plan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Ghawar James Bond
Overview: The events revolve around a three-person gang led by Abu Al-Ghawar (Duraid Lahham), who plans to steal Simon Bay, and the gang members succeed in deceiving him and stealing his locker. Whereas the husband of his sister (Nihad al-Qala'i) is a person who has many problems and disputes with the people of the region due to the mockery of the people of the region of Abu al-Ghawar Who uses this money to do amazing inventions that have no use.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Young Parents
Overview: A father of four who works for the Police and his wife dreams that he finishes his university education so he can get promoted, joins the university but drops out after his wife dies. He then works as a cab driver and his children rent a room to (Amal) to increase their income.
Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2006-02-15
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When Wives Are Absent
Overview: Ghawar has two jobs: he is a beach guard during the day and a sculptor at night. Ghawar lives with his friend Hosni and the two suffer that their wives travel constantly. A gang plans to steal a statue from the museum where Ghawar works and they send two pretty women to seduce him and Hosni.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Ghawar, The Secret Agent Antar
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Ghawar's Empire
Overview: (Ghawar) is a simple man who loves to do good, help everyone and deal with life simply, accidentally recognizes a person who feels a hidden sadness, so he approaches him and discovers that he and his lover are going through one of the severe crises that threaten them with separation, (Ghawar) decides to reconcile them and help them solve the emergency problems they are exposed to, will he succeed
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Ghawar The Football Player
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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The Happy Bird
Overview: The Happy Bird is a Syrian play directed to children and the family, starring Duraid Lahham and the Tishreen family
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Gherbah
Overview: The events of the play deal with the reality of the Arab world in the seventies, where the events of the play revolve around a village called Ghorba ruled by Bey who enslaves citizens and robs them of their wealth and leaves them to suffer backwardness, to escalate events
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Tishreen Village
Overview: A Syrian political comedy play that takes place before and after the October 1973 war in Syria and reflects the victory on the Syrian person
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1974-02-27
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