George Sidhom

Sidhom died on 27 March 2020 inside a private hospital in Heliopolis, Egypt after a long struggle with his health.

Sidhom's last work was in a television advertisement for Pepsi in Ramadan of 2014, where he appeared alongside Samir Ghanem and Sherine where they dressed in similar clothes to what they wore in their actual play back in 1978.

In 1986 Egypt went through security riots of the 1986 Egyptian conscripts riot during which Alhosabir Theater, where George invested most of his money, was set on fire. This event left George with a heart attack, as a result of which he had to travel to London to get treatment. After that event, Sidhom came back to Cairo where he opened a restaurant in 1987 in Egypt where the dishes were named after his theatrical plays.

After El Deif Ahmed's death on 6 April 1970, Ghanem and Sidhom continued under the same name (Tholathy Adwa'a El Masrah) until 1982. The two most famous plays by Tholathy Adwa'a El Masrah, after 1970, are;

In 1967, George went into depression because of the Six-Day War in which Egypt was involved and he traveled to Alexandria where on his way he met Mohamed Hamdy Ashour, Governor of Alexandria at that time, who asked him to take a role in a theatrical play.

Since childhood Sidhom loved acting and while he was in secondary school he became the head of the school's acting team. He received his Bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University in 1961.

George Sidhom (Arabic: جورج سيدهم; 28 May 1938 – 27 March 2020), was a veteran Egyptian comedian.

George Sidhom was born in Sohag, Egypt on 28 May 1938 and married Linda Makram, who is a pharmacist with whom he remained until his death in 2020.