Bekim Fehmiu
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1936-06-02 (74 years old)
Deathday
2010-06-15
Place of Birth
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Also known As
Беким Фехмиу
Беким Фехмию
Bekim Fehmiju
Bekim Fehmiu
Biography
Bekim Fehmiu (Albanian: [bɛˈkim fɛhˈmiu]; Cyrillic: Беким Фехмију; 1 June 1936 – 15 June 2010) was a Yugoslavian theater and film actor of Albanian ethnicity. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War. In 1960, Fehmiu became a member of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade, which he left in 1967, citing bad treatment, to become a free artist. Fehmiu's big break was the 1967 film I Even Met Happy Gypsies, a subtle portrayal of Roma life which won two awards in Cannes and was nominated for an Oscar. Known for his macho appearance and mild manner, Fehmiu was then wooed by Western filmmakers and signed a...
Acting
1968
as Ulisse
1977
as Fasil
1967
as Bora
1970
as Dax Xenos
1975
as Alexander Diakim
1970
as Captain Victor Kaleb
1979
as Major Dragan
2023
as Himself (archive footage)
1972
as Himself
1965
as Marko
1966
as Mirko
1977
as Žarko Munižaba
1965
1974
as Alberto Santoro
1973
as Roberto
1974
as Il dottor Giorgio Sironi
1987
as Joseph
1962
as Marić, poručnik Kraljevske vojske
1966
as Halil Beg
1982
as Ruler
1968
as Mihajlo
1964
as Kerim
1981
as Baja
1974
as Deps
1965
1987
1975
as Sandro Poggi
1977
as Marco
1971
as Doktor, obaveštajac OZNE
1974
as Adam Milovanović
1966
as Milija, trubač (segment "Put")
1967
as Ivo Bajšić
1978
as Esad Ljumi
1998
as Gormond
1975
as Pavle Pavlović
1982
as Nicolay
1985
as Ivan Pipan
1976
as Hans Reiter
1975
as Count Alexander Cagliostro / Giuseppe Balsamo
1983
as Kálmán Furtek
1972
as Georgi Dimitrov
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