Bassam Zuamut

Bassam Zuamut was born in 1951 in Jerusalem

Bassam Zuamut was born in Jerusalem on March 27, 1951. He studied acting at Beth Rothschild in Haifa and finished his studies in 1976.

After his studies he joined the Khan Theatre in Jerusalem, where he acted in plays such as Antigone and Measure for Measure, and in the one-man show Abu Nimer Stories, based on a book by Dahn Ben-Amotz. He also acted at the Al-Qasba Theatre in plays such as Romeo and Juliet and The Marriage of Figaro. At Beit Lessin Theater he appeared in A Trumpet in the Wadi.

From 1985 to 1989 he played Hakim the chef on the TV series HaMis'ada HaGdola, which made him known to a wide audience. In the 1990s he wrote an Arabic sitcom script that became the series Mishpacha De Luxe, in which he played the lead. He left Israeli television for several years in protest over its limited emergency broadcasts in Arabic during the first Gulf War.

In film he appeared in My Mother the General, Cup Final, Circus Palestina and In the Ninth Month. He lived in Shuafat in Jerusalem and died there of kidney disease on October 16, 2004. He was survived by his wife, Lydia, and a daughter.