# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ahmed-badrakhan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:23:31.516Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ahmed-badrakhan"
name: "Ahmed Badrakhan"
slug: "ahmed-badrakhan"
description: "Ahmed Badrakhan was an Egyptian film director and screenwriter of Iraqi Kurdish origin. He directed 41 films between 1936 and 1968. He is famous for his 1952 romantic drama A Night of Love starring Mahmoud El Meliguy and Mariam Fakhr Eddine. He directed Intisar al-chabab (1941) which for the first time starred the virtuoso oud player and singer Farid al-Atrash along with singer Asmahan. He was married to Asmahan, and would be a central figure in Studio Misr, Egypts most popular cinema studio at the time."
tagline: "Egyptian film director and screenwriter (1909–1969)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/pMbXCZKVcVRGP5khvwERtzeQpQG.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Egypt"
  isoCode: "EG"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1909-09-18"
deathDate: "1969-08-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.714726666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  237
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0046219/"
    handle:    "nm0046219"
sources:
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Badrakhan"
    title: "Ahmed Badrakhan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "أحمد بدرخان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "احمد بدرخان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Badrakhan"
    title: "Ahmed Badrakhan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%DB%95%D8%AD%D9%85%DB%95%D8%AF_%D8%A8%DB%95%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ئەحمەد بەدرخان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Badrakhan"
    title: "Ahmed Badrakhan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "احمد بدرخان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Badrakhan"
    title: "Ahmed Badrakhan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Badrakhan"
    title: "Ahmed Badrakhan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Badrakhan"
    title: "Ahmed Badrakhan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Badrakhan"
    title: "Ahmed Badrakhan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q582886"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1319933"
    title: "Ahmad Badrakhan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump