 He died at the age of 60 years in Cairo of typhus, while filming his last film, "Ghazal Al Banat".He established his own theatrical group in the late 1910s, in Cairo, and partnered with his lifelong friend, Badeih Khairy, in adapting several French theatre hits to the Egyptian stage, and later to the cinema.A great comedian both on stage and in films, he is considered "The Father of Comedy" in Egypt.