Mohammed Karim

Born 8 December 1896 in Egypt

Died 27 May 1972 (aged 75)

Egyptian director, screenwriter, film editor, and makeup artist born on 8 December 1896. He started as an actor during WWI then travelled to Germany where her worked as an assistant director and got married to a German woman and had one daughter, Diana. He was appointed the first Dean of the High Cinema Institute in Giza in 1959.