Acting

Ghassan Matar

Born September 8, 1938 · Palestine

Died February 27, 2015 · aged 76

Ghassan Matar was a Palestinian actor. He was born in Jaffa and got interested in performing arts at a very early age. His debut as an actor was in the Egyptian television series “Da'irat Aldaw'” (The Circle of Light), and due to his unique looks and low-register voice, he was then often cast as a villain in numerous films, television series, and theatrical plays. He also served as president of th…

Known For

Prince of the Seas

Prince of the Seas · 2009

Prince of the Seas

A Naval Academy student falls hopelessly in love with a woman who only sees him as a friend until a risky voyage sets them on a different path.

Four friends find themselves in an unexpected dilemma after one of them falls for their principal's daughter. They find themselves on the run from a drug gang, a terrorist organization, and the police after they are accused of trying to assassinate the Minister of Interior.

My Wife Is a Gang Boss

My Wife Is a Gang Boss · 2008

My Wife Is a Gang Boss

The domineering wife is absent from the house, so the husband takes advantage of the opportunity to catch his breath, as he frequent cabarets and mixes with dancers, with the help of her nephew, who brought him to watch her husband.

Circle of Deceit

Circle of Deceit · 1981

Circle of Deceit

To escape his crumbling marriage, German journalist Laschen travels to Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay. Together with his photographer, he meets some influential people and discovers the everyday face of the war.

We are all freedom fighters

We are all freedom fighters · 1969

We are all freedom fighters

A group of Palestinian freedom fighters carries out operations in Israeli-occupied lands. When they recruit Fady, his sister Hayam decides to help him with his mission. As Fady is arrested and beaten, he gives up the freedom fighters' location to the Israeli commander.

Okal

MovieRomanceComedy

(Okal) is devastated when his ex fiancee is married to a rich man. After getting drunk,he finds himself in a coffin heading to Turkey. The mayor of Egyptians take him in and he falls in love with his daughter.

The Knight & The Princess

The Knight & The Princess · 2020

The Knight & The Princess

MovieAnimationAdventure

The story of the Arab knight Muhammad Bin Qasim Al-Thaqafi who rescued many women and children from pirates in the Indian Ocean. He entered a fierce war against King Dahr who was sharing the spoils with the pirates, with the help of his friend Ziad and his mentor Abu Al-Asud.

اللصوص

اللصوص · 1981

MovieDramaThriller

Filmography

Sort

Prince of the Seas

Prince of the Seas · 2009

Prince of the Seas

A Naval Academy student falls hopelessly in love with a woman who only sees him as a friend until a risky voyage sets them on a different path.

El-Halbawy

Four friends find themselves in an unexpected dilemma after one of them falls for their principal's daughter. They find themselves on the run from a drug gang, a terrorist organization, and the police after they are accused of trying to assassinate the Minister of Interior.

فتحي ناظر المدرسة

My Wife Is a Gang Boss

My Wife Is a Gang Boss · 2008

My Wife Is a Gang Boss

The domineering wife is absent from the house, so the husband takes advantage of the opportunity to catch his breath, as he frequent cabarets and mixes with dancers, with the help of her nephew, who brought him to watch her husband.

Circle of Deceit

Circle of Deceit · 1981

Circle of Deceit

To escape his crumbling marriage, German journalist Laschen travels to Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay. Together with his photographer, he meets some influential people and discovers the everyday face of the war.

We are all freedom fighters

We are all freedom fighters · 1969

We are all freedom fighters

A group of Palestinian freedom fighters carries out operations in Israeli-occupied lands. When they recruit Fady, his sister Hayam decides to help him with his mission. As Fady is arrested and beaten, he gives up the freedom fighters' location to the Israeli commander.

Writer

Okal

MovieRomanceComedy

(Okal) is devastated when his ex fiancee is married to a rich man. After getting drunk,he finds himself in a coffin heading to Turkey. The mayor of Egyptians take him in and he falls in love with his daughter.

The Knight & The Princess

The Knight & The Princess · 2020

The Knight & The Princess

MovieAnimationAdventure

The story of the Arab knight Muhammad Bin Qasim Al-Thaqafi who rescued many women and children from pirates in the Indian Ocean. He entered a fierce war against King Dahr who was sharing the spoils with the pirates, with the help of his friend Ziad and his mentor Abu Al-Asud.

اللصوص

اللصوص · 1981

MovieDramaThriller

رشوان

No Retreat, No Surrender

No Retreat, No Surrender · 2010

No Retreat, No Surrender

MovieComedyAction

In a top secret mission to bring down a dangerous drug lord, the police recruit Hazaloum to impersonate his right hand man Adham after he is killed.

غسان مطر

Ms. Mammy

Ms. Mammy · 2012

MovieComedyRomance

A successful advertising agency executive falls asleep on an airplane and wakes up in an alternate universe as a stay-at-home mom with three kids.

Young Lovers

Young Lovers · 2005

MovieComedyFamily

A new guy who falls in love with a girl he meets, loses his memory when she accidently hit him with her car; the doctor advices his father to repeat the same day over and over for his son so that he can get back his memory.

Mahran

Inner City Story

Inner City Story · 2006

Inner City Story

MovieComedyMusic

The owner of a dancing and singing folk troupe searches for her missing daughter who went missing years ago. When she dies, the troupe's members locate the girl in Sharm El-Sheikh. She's been looking for them just as they were looking for her.

Run Away Kids

Run Away Kids · 2006

(Hassan, Arafah, and Sultan), a group of friends working in the field of reviving weddings by riding motorcycles in the area of Siof in Alexandria, each young man lives a different story, but they meet in the same dream of traveling abroad, and their friend (Fadl Matareya) In their dream, after successfully traveling, they fall prey to a person called Pasha, who falsifies their papers, passports and military service certificates, and as their dream begins to verify, the surprise occurs.

Drahm

One Man Wanted

One Man Wanted · 1973

A stranger infiltrates a group of people who live in an isolated place and tries to drive a wedge between them to seize control of the land. Two

Me, My Daughter, and Love

Me, My Daughter, and Love · 1974

Me, My Daughter, and Love

MovieRomanceDrama

Quoting the novel (Lolita) by Vladimir Nabokov, the film revolves around (Ahmed), who owns a hotel in Alexandria and falls in love with (Siham) and her teenage daughter Sahar, with whom he retrieves memories from his childhood, and after leaving Alexandria, Ahmed travels to Cairo, and there the conflict between mother and daughter revolves around Ahmed's love.

Prosecution witness

Prosecution witness · 1987

Prosecution witness

Volcano of Rage

Volcano of Rage · 2002

Volcano of Rage

Smuggled from the West Bank abroad and during his presence in Egypt a love story is established between him and an Egyptian girl and her family

روستي

Lakhmet Ras

Lakhmet Ras · 2006

MovieComedyFamily

Saber dreams of joining his son Yusuf at the police academy, but the police college did not accept Yusuf for his extra charm. Saberifi is a big problem because he borrowed money from his family. Yusuf pretends to be in college and wears a police uniform and travels to his mother. In his bus, Containing a dead head, and the gang kidnapped Yusuf's fiancée to retrieve the bag.

شامخ أبوالفدا / تروماى

Dreams of the Reckless Boy

Dreams of the Reckless Boy · 2007

Dreams of the Reckless Boy

MovieDramaComedy

The role of story in the comic film about a young playboy and loves stardom and fame, meet by chance with the actress Nelly Karim and falls in love and happen paradoxes comedy and evolving events

The Devil is a Woman

The Devil is a Woman · 1972

The Devil is a Woman

MovieDramaRomance

Amin is an honest security guard in one of the factories, he falls in love with Yasmina the factory worker, and over time discovers that Yasmina is a member of a gang headed by Asim Damanhouri, who tries to kill Amin but he stabbs him in self-defense. Amin then flees with Yasmina to Ghassan's house.

Ghassan

The Bulbul's Nest

The Bulbul's Nest · 2013

The Bulbul's Nest

A comedy about a taxi driver who wants to achieve his goal of becoming a famous singer. He finds himself inside the world of nightclubs and befriends a belly dancer who helps him on his way to stardom where he faces fierce competition.

Mr And Mrs Oweis

Mr And Mrs Oweis · 2012

Mr And Mrs Oweis

MovieDramaComedy

The story of a reckless playboy who squanders his late father's wealth, the thing that urges the mother to marry him off. However, he rejects every possible bride, until he crosses paths with a simple village girl who soon brings about his transformation.

الحوفي

Let's Get Singing!

Let's Get Singing! · 2007

Let's Get Singing!

MovieComedyRomance

A musical comedy centers around the dreams and ambitions of a group of friends,who support each other in all the problems they face whether personal or professional.

Almost Corrupted

Almost Corrupted · 2008

Almost Corrupted

MovieComedyDrama

A young man who works as a singer in a local band led by his musician uncle,meets the girl of his dreams in a wedding and his uncle's wife helps him to marry her.

The Hibiscus-Man

The Hibiscus-Man · 2013

The Hibiscus-Man

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyComedy

This science-fiction show revolves around a mad scientist, known by his friends as the "Al Ragol Al E'naab." The mad scientist concocts an elixir that gives regular human beings supernatural abilities. Though he tries to use his potion to help people, the government hinds him out and goes after him. In the midst of his manhunt, Egypt undergoes a major disaster, prompting the Egyptian government to seek out his help rather than his arrest.

Whose empire

Whose empire · 2014

SeriesComedyFamily

An Egyptian family living abroad decides to return to Egypt when a bout of nostalgia strikes the parents. Their children reluctantly agree to the decision but they all face a series of comical situations beyond what they expected from the moment they land.

The Fourth Wife

The Fourth Wife · 2012

The Fourth Wife

SeriesDramaFamily

Fawaz Al-Sayyad, who began with his father in a small fashion factory until he owned several factories for the most famous fashion designers, but his biggest flaw is being a womanizer, as he enters into many relationships, all of which end with marriage from the first moment.

Al-Adham

Al-Adham · 2009

Adham's negative experience as he was deprived of his inheritance forces him to migrate illegally to Ukraine, where he begins to trade in drugs until he becomes a drug lord.

وحلقت الطيور نحو الشرق

وحلقت الطيور نحو الشرق · 2002

وحلقت الطيور نحو الشرق

SeriesWar & PoliticsDrama

أبو زيد - ضيف شرف

Abouda Is a Trademark

Abouda Is a Trademark · 2009

Abouda Is a Trademark

The series follows a young man named Abouda who is facing many financial difficulties in life and is unable to prepare his marital apartment, until he suddenly finds himself coming into a great fortune.

حكاية الدكتور مسعود

حكاية الدكتور مسعود · 1979

حكاية الدكتور مسعود

SeriesDramaComedy

ضابط المباحث

The Lighthouse

The Lighthouse · 2008

The series addresses the issue of the Egyptian youth who marry Israeli women, covering a period that starts in the winter of 1967 prior to the Six-Day War all through the nineties and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

أيام العذاب

أيام العذاب · 1979

أيام العذاب

رؤوف عبدالرحيم