Rouiched
Ahmed Ayad (April 28, 1921 - January 20, 1999), was an Algerian actor and comedian born in Algiers, to a father from Aït Djennad in the wilaya of Tizi Ouzou and a mother from Blida. He is the half-brother of singer Hadj Mrizek. During childhood, Rouiched did a thousand small jobs to survive. Self-taught, he obtained his first role in a play by Abdelhamid Ababsa entitled “Estardjâ Yâ Assi” (Come back to you O unconscious). His interpretation saves the piece from flopping. He then launched into the profession and became the leader of an artistic troupe. He rubbed shoulders with the big names of the time: Rachid Ksentini, Mustapha Badie, Nadjat Tounsi, Sid-Ali Fernandel, Mohamed Touri, Mustapha Kateb… His conception of art and theater earned him the grievances of Mahieddine Bachetarzi. After independence, he was part of the Algerian National Theater troupe, but won recognition on television and in cinema in the film "Hassen Terro" by Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina. Rouiched, who became a very great figure in Algerian comedy theater and cinema, continued his career on Algerian Television where he played in numerous sketches and television films until his death in 1999.
The Battle of Algiers
as The Drunk Man (uncredited)Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French...
Movie pageOpium and the Stick
as TayebIn 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French...
Movie pageHassan Terro
as Hassan TerroWhile he tries by all means to stay out of the bloody upheavals caused by the battle of Algiers,...
Movie pageL'Histoire Du Film "La Bataille D'Alger"
as Self (archive footage)More than fifty years after the release of the film “The Battle of Algiers” in theaters in June...
Movie pageSons of the Earth
as uncredited"Hijos de la tierra" presents a drama set a little before the 1920s, in which scattered news,...
Movie pageHassan Niya
as uncreditedThe story of Hassan, the handyman in the inn of his sister Aïcha, widowed and childless. A whole...
Movie pageReveries of the Solitary Actor
as Self (archive footage)Adar, an old actor who loves both theater and cinema. Its character portrays a play about a...
Movie pageThe Unexpected Party
as uncreditedThis musical comedy produced in 1953 for the General Government of Algeria, features the comic...
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