Jassim Al Oboudi (1925 - 1989) جاسم العُبودي
Biography
An Iraqi director and actor, born in the city of Al-Shatrah. He graduated with distinction from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad in 1947. He received a scholarship to the United States in 1948, after which he joined the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and obtained a...Read more Master of Fine Arts degree in 1953. He held many academic and administrative positions, including a teacher of directing, acting, voice, recitation, and theatrical literature at the Institute of Fine Arts, and a lecturer in theatrical literature at the College of Education. He founded the Free Theater Troupe in 1954 and was its artistic director until 1973. His credits include All My Sons (1978), The Road (1969) and Earth (1971). He died on 10 November 1989.
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- Nationality:
- Iraq
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- Date of Birth:
- 24 September 1925
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- Birth Country:
- Iraq
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- Died on:
- 10 November 1989
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- Death Country:
- US
Watch Online
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- No doubt
- 2015 - Program
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- Safi Salina
- 2022 - Series
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- Almorsy Abo Elabaas
- 2015 - Movie
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- Watan
- 2022 - Series
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- Safah El Giza
- 2023 - Series
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- Al Horra
- 2016 - Series
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Director (6)
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- Kuluhum Awladi
- 1978 - Play
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- haflat samar min 'ajl 5 huziran
- 1972 - Play
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- Earth
- 1971 - Play
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- The Road
- 1969 - Play
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- The Just
- 1969 - Play
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- The truth is dead
- 1955 - Play
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Actor (4)
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- al-qilada
- 1980 - Movie
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- Pendulum
- 1979 - Movie
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- Al Lawha
- 1977 - Movie
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- Al Dawasir
- 1975 - Series
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More details
An Iraqi director and actor, born in the city of Al-Shatrah. He graduated with distinction from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad in 1947. He received a scholarship to the...Read more United States in 1948, after which he joined the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1953. He held many academic and administrative positions, including a teacher of directing, acting, voice, recitation, and theatrical literature at the Institute of Fine Arts, and a lecturer in theatrical literature at the College of Education. He founded the Free Theater Troupe in 1954 and was its artistic director until 1973. His credits include All My Sons (1978), The Road (1969) and Earth (1971). He died on 10 November 1989.
Trivia:
- After his return from the United States, he directed plays such as, The Truth Is Dead (1955), written by Emmanuel Roblès, Institute of Fine Arts. At Baghdad College, he directed theatrical works in Arabic and English that were presented at the King Faisal Hall Theater, such as The Bishop's Candlesticks (1956), written by Norman McKinnel, The Shared Room (1956), written by John Maddison Morton, and Spreading the News (1956), written by Lady Gregory. He also directed plays for the Free Theater Troupe, such as The Price of Freedom (1959), written by Emmanuel Roblès, as well as Dead Without Graves (1960), written by Jean-Paul Sartre, on the stage of the People's Hall.
- He wrote a number of plays early in his career, including: The Three Musketeers, A Lost Life, and Mother Earth. He also directed more than a hundred productions, and the following is some of his recorded works based on the plays he directed before leaving Iraq in 1948: Tariq bin Ziyad (1943), Dar Al-Mualimin Al-Alia, as well as The Year of the Elephant (1944), written by Dr. Abdul Jabbar Al Muttalabi, Dar Al-Mualimin Al-Alia.
- Nationality:
- Iraq
- Date of Birth:
- 24 September 1925
- Birth Country:
- Iraq
- Birth City:
- Dhi Qar
- Died on:
- 10 November 1989
- Death Country:
- US
- Death City:
- Michigan
