George Ovadiah

George Ovadiah (Arabic: چورچ اوڤادي; Hebrew: ג'ורג' עובדיה; Persian: گرجی عبادیا; c. 1925 – 1996), also known as George Obadiah, was an Iraqi-born Israeli film director, scriptwriter and producer.

[1] George Ovadiah was born in c. 1925 in Baghdad, Iraq.

[1] In Iran he directed 25 films and occasionally was an actor.

[2] In 1967 he made "Harbor of Love", an Israeli-Iranian coproduction.

In 1996 the Israeli Film Academy paid tribute to his memory.

Ovadiah and Uri Zohar on the set of the movie "Call me Shmil", 1973