# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kamal-el-sheikh
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:29:52.106Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kamal-el-sheikh"
name: "Kamal El Sheikh"
slug: "kamal-el-sheikh"
description: "Kamal El Sheikh was an Egyptian film director. He directed 28 films between 1952 and 1987, with eight of them in the Top 100 Egyptian films list. He was known in the fifties and early sixties as \"Hitchcock of Egypt\" because of his influence from the cinema of the well-known British director."
tagline: "Film director (1919-2004)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/tMU6jSvqOGFvjVwtmBk7RNUIX4H.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: "1919-02-02"
deathDate: "2004-01-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.15
  momentum:             2.40004553734062
  historical:           9.898382666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  246
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252760/"
    handle:    "nm0252760"
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal_El_Sheikh"
    title: "Kamal El Sheikh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AE"
    title: "كمال الشيخ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AE"
    title: "كمال الشيخ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal_El_Sheikh"
    title: "Kamal El Sheikh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal_El_Sheikh"
    title: "Kamal El Sheikh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemal_el-Sheik"
    title: "Kemal el-Sheik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%AE"
    title: "کمال الشیخ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal_Al-Cheikh"
    title: "Kamal Al-Cheikh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal_El_Sheikh"
    title: "Kamal El Sheikh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal_El_Sheikh"
    title: "Kamal El Sheikh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal_El_Sheikh"
    title: "Kamal El Sheikh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3743671"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/127945"
    title: "Kamal El Sheikh"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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