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

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

Odissea

as Ulisse

1977

Black Sunday

as Fasil

1970

The Adventurers

as Dax Xenos

1975

Permission to Kill

as Alexander Diakim

1970

The Deserter

as Captain Victor Kaleb

1979

2023

Bekim Fehmiu

as Himself (archive footage)

1965

Klaxon

as Marko

1966

1977

Special Education

as Žarko Munižaba

1974

Il gioco della verità

as Alberto Santoro

1974

Silence the Witness

as Il dottor Giorgio Sironi

1962

Sasha

as Marić, poručnik Kraljevske vojske

1966

The Swarm

as Halil Beg

1964

1974

Deps

as Deps

1975

Libera, My Love

as Sandro Poggi

1977

1971

A Trap for the General

as Doktor, obaveštajac OZNE

1974

The Wind

as Adam Milovanović

1966

The Time of Love

as Milija, trubač (segment "Put")

1967

Protest

as Ivo Bajšić

1978

1998

Heart and Sword

as Gormond

1975

Pavle Pavlovic

as Pavle Pavlović

1982

The Voice

as Nicolay

1985

1976

Salon Kitty

as Hans Reiter

1975

Cagliostro

as Count Alexander Cagliostro / Giuseppe Balsamo

1983

Pavilón šeliem

as Kálmán Furtek

1972

The Reichstag Fire

as Georgi Dimitrov

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