Egyptian television and cinema actor Mohamed Kamel died on Tuesday morning at the Maadi military hospital where he was being treated.

Ashraf Zaki, the head of the Actors Syndicate, announced the death on his Facebook page.

The funeral prayer will take place on Thursday after evening prayers at Sayyida Nafisa Mosque.

Kamel was born in 1944 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the Higher Theatre Institute.

He starred in over 90 works from the 1970s up until 2014, the majority of which were television series including Maaly El-Wazira (Her Excellency The Minister) with Elham Shahin, Abbas El-Abyad alongside Yehia El-Fakharany and El-Leil w Akhro (The Night and it's End).

Kamel’s filmography in cinema includes appearing in Sawaa El-Otobees (The Bus Driver, 1982) starring Nour El-Sherif, and Hob Fel Zenzana (Love in the Prison Cell, 1983) starring Adel Imam, and Gaana El-Bayan El-Taly (We Received the Following Statement, 2001) starring Mohamed Heneidy.

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