Egyptian comedy actor Mazhar Abol Naga has died at the age of 75, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported on Monday.

Abol Naga passed away at a hospital in Giza's Mohandiseen district after a recent series of health problems.

The Dakhleya-born actor starred in dozens of popular films, plays and TV dramas over a career stretching back to the early 1970s.

He is best known for a number of plays he appeared in alongside comic actor Mohamed Negm in the 1980s.

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