Tawfiq Al-Deqen
Acting • Born 1924-05-03 – Died 1988-11-26
Biography
Tawfiq Ameen Muhammad Ahmad al-Sheikh Al Deqen was born in the village of Horeen in Berket al-Sab’ Monoufeyya (delta of Egypt). He graduated from the High Institute of Dramatic Arts in 1950. His career started when he was still studying when he played the role of a peasant and then participated in “Dhohoor al-Islaam" (The appearance of Islam) in 1951. Seven years after his graduation, Tawfik joined the Free Theatre Troupe. He also worked with Esma’eel Yasseen in his troupe then joined the National Theatre where he remained member of its troupe until the end of his life. In the National Theatre, he presented “’ Aaelat al-Doghry" (The Dodgers), “Bedaaya wa nehaaya" (Dead among the living), “Sekkat al-salaama" (The safe way), “Al-Mahroussa" i.e. The Blessed”, “’ Afareet Masr al-gedeeda i.e. The demons of Heliopolis”, “Al-farafeer” where he excelled. , “Mash-had men al-guesr" (View from the bridge), “Hesbet Berma" (Berma calculation)”, “Al-naass elly taht" (Downstairs people), “ Kahayal al-dhell" (Shadow plays), “Solaymaan al-Halaby” and “Beer al-sellem" (Stairwell). He was very popular in playing the evil scoundrel role in a very special manner that was assisted by his features thus making him one of the best Arab actors in such roles. As Tawfik grew older his roles changed. He played the role of the helpless father in “’Ala baab al-Wazeer” and the peasant’s role in “Kharaga wa lam ya’od" (Out and never back). His on-screen phrases became idioms in Egypt and all over the Arab world; “Ahla men al-sharaf mafeesh,” “Hambaka” and “Alo ya Omam”.
Filmography
238 credits
Serial Killer of Women
Movie • 1970
توفيق الدقن (نفسه)
Premeditated
Movie • 1979
dr. najeeb
Shall I Kill My Husband?
Movie • 1958
Adieu Bonaparte
Movie • 1985
The Nile and the Life
Movie • 1968
Khalid ibn el Walid
Movie • 1958
متمم بن نويرة
Lovers' Call
Movie • 1960
Farewell, Love
Movie • 1956
امبراطورية المعلم
Movie • 1974
الساحر
A Woman from Cairo
Movie • 1973
مدير الشركة
A man and two women
Movie • 1966
Save Whatever is Possible
Movie • 1985
La Shay'a Yuhem
Movie • 1975
The City's Lost Souls
Movie • 1974
فرغلى
Molok Al Shar
Movie • 1972
Wedad, The Belly Dancer
Movie • 1983
Men who are not afraid of death
Movie • 1973
خميس
Flame
Movie • 1964
Aalem Wi Almma
Movie • 1983
Yawm El Hesab
Movie • 1962
زتاتي صاحب الكباريه
واحدة بعد واحدة ونص
Movie • 1978
The Most Honorable Sinner
Movie • 1973
Seraa El Gababera
Movie • 1962
Sonbull
Ebn Al-Shaitan
Movie • 1969
The Crazy
Girls' Secrets
Movie • 1969
Elham's father
A Schoolgirl's Romance
Movie • 1969
Tawfik
Jail Cell
Movie • 1984
Major General Al-Ghandour
The Lottery Ticket Thief
Movie • 1970
End of the devils
Movie • 1970
عصام
Bedour
Movie • 1974
In summer, we must love
Movie • 1974
Issawi
كوبري الناموس
Movie
Looking for Troubles
Movie • 1975
رئيس التحرير
El Ghufran
Movie • 1971
The Land
Movie • 1970
Sheikh Sha'ban
Mister Fish
Movie • 1967
Abdelgwad
Driven from Paradise
Movie • 1965
The deceivers
Movie • 1973
abdeen - عابدين
The School of Mischief
Movie • 1973
عبدالوهاب ابولطفي
The Shore of Memories
Movie • 1955
The Final Message
Movie • 1964
عبد الحفيظ
Mama's Secretary
Movie • 1969
haridy
Goodbye, Night
Movie • 1966
Abdo Mahfouz
All for Hanafy
Movie • 1964
Days Of Love
Movie • 1968
Saad the Orphan
Movie • 1985
Wonderful Trip
Movie • 1974
Land of Dreams
Movie • 1956
Safwat
Kollohom Awlady
Movie • 1962
Ustta Sayed
I Love you Hassan
Movie • 1958
عبده دانص
سجن العذارى
Movie • 1959
حنفي
Hayati hi althaman
Movie • 1961
My Son
Movie • 1972
توفيق
The Fools Alley
Movie • 1955
عبده عماره
The Rebels
Movie • 1968
رجب أفندي - صحفي مريض
Viva Zalata
Movie • 1976
Leader of the Trickers
An Egyptian Story
Movie • 1982
Thousands Kisses
Movie • 1977
Fattouh's father
Widow Wanted
Movie • 1965
Hanafi
The Bulldozer
Movie • 1986
The Dawn of Islam
Movie • 1951
Khabbab bin Al-Art
Ismail Yassine in Prison
Movie • 1960
I'm accusing
Movie • 1960
Port Said
Movie • 1957
محمود شيكو
Ismail Yassine in Damascus
Movie • 1958
Shawki Abdel Salam
May He Rest in Peace
Movie • 1982
Dala ilbanat
Movie • 1969
A house without love
Movie • 1976
A call to life
Movie • 1972
Land of Peace
Movie • 1957
Khalid
Alshayatin fi 'ajaza
Movie • 1973
المعلم أبوالرشد
Missing Person
Movie • 1984
Awadeen
A Man in My Life
Movie • 1961
Diary of a Country Prosecutor
Movie • 1969
The Next-Door Girl
Movie • 1964
Humbeke
7 Days in Heaven
Movie • 1969
The Half Meter Incident
Movie • 1983
عنتر
Bent Gheir Kol Al-Banat
Movie • 1978
أمين
A Teenager from the Countryside
Movie • 1976
Ehtaressy Min El Regal ya Mama
Movie • 1975
عتريس
Night and Jail Bars
Movie • 1973
Khan El-Khalili
Movie • 1966
Saladin
Movie • 1963
Prince of Akka
A Journey of Suffering
Movie • 1972
Sharaf
My Wife's Suitor
Movie • 1959
نبيل
Al Aseel
Movie • 1973
حب وخيانة
Movie • 1968
Abeed Al Gasad
Movie • 1962
من أفراد عصابة على عبدالفتاح
My Wife the General Manager
Movie • 1966
عبدالقوي
Cairo 30
Movie • 1966
والد إحسان/ شحاته تركى
The Thug
Movie • 1957
عبدالشكور
The Sinners
Movie • 1976
فهمي القليوبي - مدير الجمعية
Forbidden
Movie • 1972
Sands of Gold
Movie • 1971
A Man in Our House
Movie • 1961
محمود الدباغ
At the Minister's Door
Movie • 1982
Abdul Samad Effendi
Albarnas
Movie • 1984
I Have the Wallet
Movie • 1978
Zizo
Women Can’t Lie
Movie • 1954
Searching for a Scandal
Movie • 1973
Saber/Sami's Friend
Housing crisis
Movie • 1972
Abdel Mohaymin
The Bravest Man in the World
Movie • 1968
Youssef and Zeinab
Movie • 1986
(as Tewfik El Dekn)
Son of Hamido
Movie • 1957
الباز أفندي
Half a Rabbit
Movie • 1983
Roshdi
The Demons Husbands
Movie • 1977
المعلم الحرامي
The Barred Road
Movie • 1958
Awad - عوض الصيدلي
The Devil of the Desert
Movie • 1954
Hanzala
Sunstroke
Movie • 1978
Gamil
The Piper
Movie • 1985
Life is a Carnival
Movie • 1975
abu domah
Prince of Cunningness
Movie • 1964
جعفر
Wa la yazal al tahqiq mostameran
Movie • 1979
Nafea
They're Driving Me Crazy
Movie • 1960
ضابط المباحث
The Den of the Wicked
Movie • 1972
Alley of The Pestle
Movie • 1963
Zaita
Fun Band
Movie • 1970
سليم
Forbidden at the Wedding Night
Movie • 1975
Sorcerer
The Secret of the Magic Hat
Movie • 1959
A File in Vice
Movie • 1986
wassfi
I, He and She
Movie • 1964
El Nemsawi
Eldarb Elahmar
Movie • 1980
The Savage
Movie • 1979
Baheya's father
Al-khobz Al-mor
Movie • 1982
عوّاد
Ms. Manal Diary
Movie • 1971
Morsi Al-Anfushi
The People Inside
Movie • 1969
I'm The Doctor
Movie • 1968
Three Women
Movie • 1969
المشعوذ (القصة 2)
His Majesty
Movie • 1963
Almaz And Abdo El Hamouly
Movie • 1962
Fortune is a Promise
Movie • 1955
مخرج
Albint Alhulwat Alkadaba
Movie • 1977
ضيف الفيلم
Something of Love
Movie • 1973
درويش
El Maganeen Fi Naeem
Movie • 1963
Kamal
Seraa All Mohtafeeen
Movie • 1969
دبّور
Al-Aqwiyaa
Movie • 1980
Ismail Bey
Devilish Daughters
Movie • 1984
The Beauty and The Scoundrel
Movie • 1974
حنفي
Ebn El-Hetta
Movie • 1968
End of the Road
Movie • 1960
Al Moshaghiboun
Movie • 1965
رشاد مساعد يوسف
Zero hour
Movie • 1972
عوّاد
A Woman and a Man
Movie • 1971
إسماعيل
Katia tarik
Movie • 1959
توفيق
Soultan
Movie • 1958
ابو سنة المكوجي
A World of Children
Movie • 1976
Kholkhal habibi
Movie • 1960
عطوة صبي اللوكاندة وضابط بوليس
The Three Wise Men
Movie • 1965
علي عبدالسميع مالك محل لعب اطفال
Abou Rabiea
Movie • 1973
فتح الله - مدير الأرشيف
Serr el ghaeb
Movie • 1962
Al Shaytan wal Kharif
Movie • 1972
لبيب
Rendezvous with Soso
Movie • 1977
Lack of Evidence
Movie • 1987
khalil
Raghabat Mamnou'aa
Movie • 1972
The Life and Sufferings of Christ
Movie • 1938
Caiaphas
The Charmer
Movie • 1958
El-Kawakby
Wesh El Saad
Movie • 1987
Lesson Is Over, Idiot
Movie • 1975
Ana Wi Habibi
Movie • 1953
Assistant Store Manager
Love at the Circus
Movie • 1960
H-3
Movie • 1961
نبيل افندي المحتال
The Terror
Movie • 1969
Ghaltet Habibi
Movie • 1958
Hassan Beh El Ghalban
Movie • 1982
Al-Naqbawi
College Girls
Movie • 1971
Nada
El Sab'a Afandi
Movie • 1951
Shadia Al-Jabal
Movie • 1964
Hemdan
sons for sale
Movie • 1973
طُلبة
Anisat wasaydat
Movie • 1974
ناجى فريد
El Banat Wel Mercedes
Movie • 1973
Dark Waters
Movie • 1956
Ezzat
The Quiet Nest
Movie • 1976
El naas makamat
Movie • 1954
Officer
Behold How Bold Is Sokkar
Movie • 1977
The Three Madmen
Movie • 1970
Division officer Ezbat al-Ward
برئ في المشنقة
Movie • 1971
A Hero Till the End
Movie • 1963
The kidnappers
Movie • 1972
حسين عزام
Two-faced
Movie • 1973
موسى
One in a Million
Movie • 1970
رجل في المصيدة
Movie • 1971
And Life Is Back
Movie • 1976
إبراهيم الضبّ
Lion of the Night
Movie • 1971
الأخرس علي عرابي
Youth in a Storm
Movie • 1971
عطية - مدير عام المصلحة
Shouq
Movie • 1976
A woman in love
Movie • 1974
Shaban
Struggle with death
Movie • 1970
جودة
Esabat El Shaytaan
Movie • 1971
All Is Well
Movie • 1984
Devil Girl
Movie • 1964
زوج ام شيرين القاسي
Shanbu Fi Al-Musayda
Movie • 1968
Ali Capone
Mind and money
Movie • 1965
اسيزاريو اوكتافيوس
The Devil Preaches
Movie • 1981
Tabaa El-Deek
prison without bars
Movie • 1983
والد ليلى
The Professor and the Belly Dancer
Movie • 1983
بعزق شيكو بيكو
El dow' El khafet
Movie • 1961
Money and Women
Movie • 1960
برعى
Adham Al-Sharqawi
Movie • 1964
Maghawri
The Safe Road
Movie • 1964
الريجيسير
Shantat Hamza
Movie • 1967
صراع مع الملائكة
Movie • 1962
رحلة داخل امرأة
Movie • 1978
أمين - زوج انشراح
Girls and love
Movie • 1974
The fox and the chameleon
Movie • 1970
prisoner
Al-Aneed
Movie • 1973
Abbas Masoud
I Have the Wallet
Movie • 1978
زيزو - ضيف شرف
لحظات خوف
Movie • 1972
عبده كمبل
Couples and summer
Movie • 1961
Nabil Mustafa
Nemar el-Talamzah
Movie • 1964
Tawfiq
Midnight story
Movie • 1964
Gharib - the maid
Nashal raghm anfuh
Movie • 1969
Abu Fasada
Orphans' money
Movie • 1952
دلوني يا ناس
Movie • 1954
الأستاذ رشدى - الصحفى
Al-Shaima
Movie • 1972
الفرافير
Movie • 1964
السيد
The Way Of The Devil
Movie • 1963
Thousand Kisses and kiss
Movie • 1977
أبو فتوح
السبنسة
Movie • 1962
The Monster
Movie • 1964
صخرة الحب
Movie • 1959
Circle of doubt
Movie • 1980
لمعي مراد
خدني معاك
Movie • 1966
Driven from Paradise
Movie • 1965
صوت حارس جهنم
مع سبق الإصرار
Movie • 1979
No return
Movie • 1961
دعونا نحب
Movie • 1975
دعني والدموع
Movie • 1964
Bela Rahma
Movie • 1971
أبو دومة زعيم عصابة
هل أقتل زوجى
Movie • 1958
سليم / سيد عبدالحميد
The Black Cat
TV • 1964
Al- A'awar/Awad/ Mursi
The End of the World is not Tomorrow
TV • 1983
الحقيقة.. ذلك المجهول
TV • 1977
ألف ليلة وليلة
TV • 1984
مفتاح سر التاريخ
جمال الدين الأفغاني
TV • 1984
محمد رسول الله
TV • 1980
النمرود
Dreams Of El Tayer Boy
TV • 1978
رحلة هادئة
TV • 1978
All Sizzle, No Steak
TV • 1978