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Khalil Al Rifai, an Iraqi Arab actor dies
at 79 in Kurdistan
10.10.2006
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Erbil, Kurdistan
Region (Iraq), October 10 ,-- Khalil al-Rifai, an
Arab comedian and actor who entertained Iraqis for
more than five decades, has died from kidney
failure, he was 79.
Al-Rifai died yesterday, Monday 9, 2006 in Kurdistan
Region in the Kurdish city of Erbil, where he was
hospitalized for treatment, Iraq's Sharqiya
television reported.
Khalil Al Rifai, who deceased in a hospital in Erbil
after the President of Kurdistan Region 'Massoud
Barazani' ordered to transport him to Kurdistan upon
the plead of Alsumaria TV due to the deterioration
of his health in the capital’s hospital.
Al-Rifai was born in a Baghdad low income
neighborhood in 1927 and broke into the
entertainment business performing in stage
productions in Baghdad in the 1940s.
In 1956 he acted in a radio soap, while continuing
his stage acting, then eventually made the
transition to television. |
Khalil al-Rifai, an Iraqi Arab comedian and actor |
Al-Rifai rose to fame in Iraq with his role as the
bumbling vendor Abu Faris in "Under the Razor of the
Barber," a popular 1960s television series that is
still widely watched on Iraqi television.
Over his career, al-Rifai acted in some 85 plays and
more than 800 radio and television shows and soap
operas, as well as several movies.
AP | Alsumaria TV
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