A surgical operation claimed the life of "Captain" Fouad Sharaf El-Din

The Lebanese star, nicknamed “Captain,” Fouad Sharaf El-Din, converted to Islam at the age of 83, a few weeks after a brain surgery, ending 55 years in cinema to become the most famous police officer on Lebanese screens.

Fouad Sharaf El-Din died after head surgery Actor, director, writer and producer Fouad Sharaf El-Din died yesterday, Monday, after an attempt to save him several weeks ago through brain surgery. He died in his home, which was filled for days with people congratulating him for his safety after the surgery, but his condition suddenly relapsed and he died.

The family announced that "he will be buried tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday, in Rawdat al-Shahidayn, in Beirut."

The Lebanese artist, born in 1941, died in a Beirut hospital, “where he was being treated following the operation he underwent on his head,” according to what the Syndicate of Theater and Cinema Actors in Lebanon said in a statement.

The union described the late man as “the star who loved Lebanon until his last breath,” noting that he had been treated a while ago for some kidney pain, recovered and participated in two television and film productions, but “his health deteriorated after that, and it turned out that he was suffering from a benign tumor in his head.” ...) He underwent an excision operation.”

After he recovered, his condition suddenly deteriorated after he lost a lot of blood, so he was hospitalized again. “He was scheduled to undergo a number of tests and x-rays tomorrow, but he passed away.”

The head of the Actors Syndicate, Nama Badawi, stated on his Facebook page that “the great star Fouad Sharaf El-Din has enriched Lebanese cinema with many films, as well as the small screen with many series.”

He noted that "he always played the role of a security officer, so he was called the Captain, preserving the law and prestige of the state."

The works of "Captain" Fouad Sharaf El-Din Sharaf El-Din achieved wide fame for his roles in action films in the 1970s and 1980s. His first success was with his brother, director Youssef Sharaf El-Din, who has lived for many years in Cairo, in the movie “The Last Passage,” after Fouad’s various experiences in other works, including: Professor Ayoub - Farid Shawqi, Walid Tawfiq - and Hasnaa wa Amalika - with Muhammad Al-Mawla and Hikmat Wehbe. She repeated the rosary with many films: Women in Danger, Death Leap, Difficult Number Girls, The Professional and the Ghosts, The Forbidden Island, all the way to: War as Symbols, by Peter Mimi in Cairo with Amir Karara.