he was born on March 16, 1950, and after forty years of working in government departments during which he rose to the position of the first undersecretary of the Ministry of Electricity, Mahmoud El Fishawy finally fulfilled his dream of becoming an actor by playing the role of Galal in the movie 1000 Mabrok staring Ahmed Helmy. He later also participated in an advertising campaign for one of the international soft water companies with Ahmed Makki, as well he was preparing to star in a new movie entitled The Bus, written and directed by Mohamed Diab, until he died on January 18, 2010, at the age of sixty after suffering from a heart attack.