Amidou

Known for ActingBorn 1935-08-02Died 2013-09-19Rabat, Morocco

From Wikipedia Hamidou Benmessaoud (Arabic: حميدو بنمسعود‎; 2 August 1935 – 19 September 2013), best known as Amidou, was a Moroccan-French film, television and stage actor. Born in Rabat, at 17 Amidou moved to Paris to attend the CNSAD. In 1968 he made his debut on stage, in Jean Genet's Les paravents. Amidou is probably best known for his association with director Claude Lelouch, with whom he has shot eleven films, including the Lelouch's film debut Le propre de l'homme (1960). He made his debut in a Maroccan film in 1969, starring in Soleil de printemps directed by Latif Lahlou. His career includes roles in Spaghetti Westerns like Buddy Goes West and several American productions, including William Friedkin's Sorcerer, John Frankenheimer's Ronin and John Huston's Escape to Victory. In 1969 Amidou was awarded best actor at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival for his role in Life Love Death by Claude Lelouch, later he won best actor awards at the Cairo Film Festival (for Pursuit by Leila Triquie) and at the Tangier Film Festival (for Rachid Boutounes' Here and There). In 2005, he received at the hands of Martin Scorsese a Lifetime Career Award at the International Film Festival of Marrakech. He was also the first Moroccan actor to have won an acting award at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. Amidou died on 19 September 2013 in Paris, France. He was 78.Read more

Movies & web series

Lalla Hobby

La parole est au témoin

The Passenger

Les p’tites têtes

Les Avocats du Diable

Bitter Champagne

Soleil de Printemps

Les grands moments

Sorcerer

The Beautiful Story

Ronin

Spy Game

The Crook

Escape to Victory

Thé a la menthe

Brothers in Arms

Soleil

Aïcha

Aïcha : Vacances infernales

Aïcha : La grande débrouille

Comme les 5 doigts de la main

Rules of Engagement

There Were Days... and Moons

Heartbeat

Brigade Anti Gangs

Man in the Trunk

Live for Life

Buddy Goes West

Hideous Kinky

Joséphine, Guardian Angel

The Big Pardon 2

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...

Countdown to Vengeance

Ali Baba and the 40 thieves

To Be a Crook

Aïcha : Job à tout prix

3000 Million Without an Elevator

Smic, Smac, Smoc

Life Love Death

The Night Wears Suspenders

Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves

Rosebud

Sorrel Flower

Touch and Go

Farewell Fred

The Punishment

Heaven's Doors

The Girl Across the Way