Damascus-SANA
The Ministry of Information and the Artists Syndicate mourned the artist, Muhammad Al-Shammat, who passed away yesterday evening at the age of eighty-five, during his treatment journey in the United States, from a severe health crisis that befell him years ago.
The late artist, born in Damascus in 1936, worked at an early age in private theater groups and art clubs that were active on the Syrian scenes in the fifties and sixties of the last century and achieved a remarkable presence with the stars of the Syrian theatrical comedy such as Abdul Latif Fathi and Mahmoud Jabr, then joined the National Theater when it was established in the sixties of the last century He participated in many works.
The most prominent breakthrough in Al-Shammat’s artistic career was his participation in the series “Sah Al-Nom” starring Duraid Lahham and the late Nihad Kalai, where the Arab audience introduced him to the character of Uncle Abu Rayah, who turned into a character that resembled a cartoon that he repeated in his other works on television, theater and cinema.
Al-Shammat, who began suffering with health crises in 1998 after suffering a stroke and was cured after a long treatment, returned strongly to drama, especially Shamiya, and participated in most parts of Bab Al-Hara directed by Bassam Al-Mulla as the character of Al-Khudari Abu Marzouk, which intersects in many characteristics with the character of Abu Rayah.
Among the works of the late on the stage (Come We Laugh) with Abdel Latif Fathi and (Kabrit with two guns) with Mahmoud Jabr and in the drama (Haret Al-Qasr), (Sah Al-Nom) in its parts, (Wadi Al-Misk), (The Groom of God) and (The World is Funny and Weeping) and (Yassin Tours), (Al-Khawali), (Layali Al-Salihiya), (The Leader’s Chair) and (Bab Al-Hara), and in the cinema are the films (Sah Al-Nom), (The Wedding of Challenge), (When the Wives Are Absent) and (Ghawar James Bond).
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