Nicolas Abou Samah (1939 - April 8, 2016) is a director, actor and producer of Lebanese entertainment. He is the first to introduce dubbing into the Arab world and his works are deemed to be immortal.
Born in the Ashrafieh and with an elementary education in flower Charity School, he won the first place in the certificate «Alsartevika» in Lebanon, completed later in the Jesuit even a high school diploma, and he loved the film so much, and always accompanied his father to the cinema to watch Egyptian and foreign films in the Cinema « Crystal », in this period he was writing and oversees the school magazine, as well as the writing in the cinema magazine in French for all the artists and their work, and at the same time work in the Lebanese broadcasting director radio, and was coming out called« cinema program in the week », which was prepared and submitted by the late Fred Jabr. He worked as an assistant director in the Near East with the director and the entire Qostandi Abu Allod. His Lebanese Vilumbly company produced a set of the most important operas dubbed such as Sinbad and Treasure Island and Accessories and turn the Smurfs and others said it is a leading dubbing in the Arab world and is also the first to Bdbalijh Mexican soap operas late eighties he owned with his wife, Mary Tubby channel "Antin Plus" in Lebanon, which was closed after the media law in Lebanon, the mid-nineties and today is owned Arab women's channel.
TV output stage
After finishing in the study of law at the Jesuit University, Film and TV output studied at the Higher Institute of Cinema in Paris, France, where he spent six years there, he worked at the same time, and gained experience in this area, the work of a way out on French television, then returned to Lebanon and began work in the output in Lebanon and the Levant TV. The first work directed by is a program Yvette Sarsaq, and then took out «Guare Ataiwha» and Hassan Alaa Eddin, and the series of Ismail Yassin named «wondrous strange» and other operas, has directed more than 2,000 hours of serials and programs, and the last work was in 1973, a Romeo Lahoud, and the series at the time It has become the color.
Dubbing foreign series
Turning Nicola Abu allowed to Vilumbly company that has been run by his wife, Mary Obese, and the first company introduced the dubbing to Lebanon, was the first work is Sinbad, and Mexican soap operas "You or No One", and the series "Regardless of the Price", «Maria Lina», "The Last Hostage" and other foreign serials. As the Company Bdbalijh filmed the Series in Abu Dhabi, which was at the beginning of their work. He appointed a member of the Lebanese government in Lebanon Television Council, and resigned in 2013.
Death
He died in April 8, 2016 at the age of 77 years.

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