Theatre and film actor Hassan Mustafa died early on Tuesday at 81 after a week in intensive care at the Anglo American Hospital in Zamalek. His funeral set out from the Mostafa Mahmoud Mosque in Mohandessine. Best remembered as the headmaster in his epic stage comedy Madraset Al-Moshaghbein (School of Rascals, 1973), starring Soheir Al-Babli, Adel Imam, Ahmed Zaki, Said Saleh and Younis Shalabi, Mustafa worked with Saleh, Zaki and Shalabi as well as Karima Mukhtar in the phenomenally successful El-Eyal Kebret (The Children Have Grown Up, 1979). Mustafa was born on 26 June 1933, graduating from the Theatrical Arts Institute in 1957. He joined a number of theatre troupes including the Ismail Yassin Company, appearing on the silver screen for the first time alongside Fouad Al-Mohandess in Akhtar Ragol Fil Alam (Mr X, 1967). He collaborated with Al-Mohandess in such films as Motarda Gharamia (Love Chase, 1968) and such plays as Hawaa Al-Sa'aa 12 (Midnight Eve, 1968) and Sayedati Al-Jamila (My Fair Lady, 1969). Mustafa had since participated in many successful television series like the famous Bakiza wi Zaghloul (Bakiza and Zaghloul, 1986), Raafat Al-Hagan (1987) and, most recently, with Yehia Al-Fakharani in Yetraba fi Ezzo (May he be Raised in Prosperity). Mustafa's latest work in cinema was his role in Hassan wi Morcos (Hassan and Morqus) with the iconic Adel Imam and Omar Sharif. Mustafa was married to the actress Mimi Gamal and is survived by two children.
