Samir Yousef Ghanem (Arabic: سمير يوسف غانم; 15 January 1937 – 20 May 2021)[1][2][3] was an Egyptian comedian, singer, and entertainer.

[4] After graduating from high school, he joined the Police Academy following the example of his father, who was a police officer, but he was dismissed from it after failing two consecutive years, so he transferred papers to the College of Agriculture at Alexandria University and joined the acting teams there.

[9] Their debut was Doctor Save Me, a short performance that introduced them to the entertainment world.

[14] Ghanem participated in more than 300 acting roles including films, TV series and theater plays, the last of which was in the series Badal Al Hadduta Talata with his daughter Donia Samir Ghanem.

The two most famous are: While George Sidhom retired due to a brain stroke,[15] Samir Ghanem continued producing plays.