Mahmoud Ismail (1914–1983; Arabic: محمود إسماعيل) was an Egyptian actor of stage and film, a screenplay writer, and a film director.
[1] Ismail began his artistic career as a theater actor in the Egyptian National Theatre Troupe.
[1] He was a Sufi, and had lived in the Al-Hussein neighborhood of Cairo.
[2] As an actor in film he frequently worked with film directors Ahmed Badrakhan, Niazi Mostafa, Hassan Hilmy [ar], and Hasan El-Saifi.
He often played characters that had a criminal past or villains (such as thieves, thugs, and drug dealers).