Khaled Taja

Khaled Taja
خالد تاجا
Born	(1939-11-06)November 6, 1939 Rukneddine, Damascus, Syria
Died	April 4, 2012(2012-04-04) (aged 72) Damascus, Syria
Nationality	Syrian
Years active	1966–2012
Known for	TV series, Movies
Notable work	Al-Taghreba al-Falastenya

Khaled Omar Taja (Arabic: خالد عمر تاجا; November 6, 1939 – April 4, 2012) was a Syrian actor born in Rukneddine district in the city of Damascus. The poet Mahmoud Darwish called him "Anthony Quinn of the Arabs". He's credited for appearing alongside Salah Zulfikar in Memory of a Night of Love (1973). Taja worked in over 62 different TV series.[1][2] He died at the age of 73 on April 4, 2012.[2]

Career and filmography

Cinema

• 1973 – Memory of a Night of Love

Theater

TV series

• 2000 – Al-Zeer Salem
• 2001 – Salah Al-deen Al-Ayyobi
• 2004 – Al-Taghriba Al-Filistinia
• - Saqr Quraish

Awards

• Khaled Taja won the Best Actor Award for a Second Role for his performance in the Palestinian TV series Al-Taghreba al-Falastenya, at the Cairo Festival for Radio and Television, 2005.[3]

See also

• Jay Abdo
• Maxim Khalil
• Ghassan Massoud
• Hatem Ali
• List of Syrian television series

References

1. Khaled Taja is not like anyone else(ar)
2. "Khaled Taja passes away". Al Bawaba.
3. "6 جوائز للكويت في مهرجان القاهرة للاذاعة والتلفزيون". جريدة القبس.

External links

• Khaled Taja at IMDb
• Khaled Taja at Rotten Tomatoes