Jassim Al Oboudi (1925 - 1989) جاسم العُبودي

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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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  • 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.

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  • He directed a number of plays at the Goodman Memorial Theater of the Art Institute of Chicago, such as The Marriage Proposal (1949), as well as The Bear (1949), both written by Antoine Chekhov.
  • He appeared as an actor in the films The Painting (1977) and Pendulum (1979), directed by his student Carlo Hartyon, as well as the series Al Dawasir (1975).
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  • Birth Country:
  • Iraq

  • Birth City:
  • Dhi Qar


  • Death Country:
  • US

  • Death City:
  • Michigan



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