Abderrahmane El Kebir

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1930-02-01 (87 years old)

Deathday

2017-07-21

Place of Birth

Maghnia, Algeria

Abderrahmane El Kebir

Biography

Abderrahmane El Kebir (in arabic : عبد الرحمن الكبير), born February 1, 1930 in Maghnia, Algeria and died July 21, 2017 in Paris, is an Algerian actor. After a few extras, he was hired by Ali Ghalem to play the lead role in his film/documentary Mektoub, which tells the story of a young Maghrebian arriving in France in the 1970s, lost in a world he does not know. He was then assigned to the roles that French cinema attributed to Maghrebians in the 1970s and 80s: dark henchman, terrorist, grocer... Often credited El Kebir, El Kebir, Adder El Kebir, Abderrahmane El Kebir, he will accumulate throughout his career, between 1969 and 2017, more th...

Acting

1992

2017

Ismael's Ghosts

as Le vieil homme préfecture

1986

Nuit d'ivresse

as Le buveur de Boukha

1989

1970

Mektoub

as Ahmed

2001

1977

Plus ça va, moins ça va

as L'ouvrier arabe

2000

Return to Algiers

as Fadel's brother

1975

No Problem!

as Anita's upstairs neighbor

1972

Money Money Money

as Militant (uncredited)

1973

1995

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