Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#214885
of 909177 performers
Top 25%
Hamdy Al Merghany works on quiet performance rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Hamdy Al Merghany appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hamdy. The Secret Men Club is the clearest case: a film rated 6.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, comedy, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Mahmoud Karim, Amr Salah, Khaled Al-Halafawi and others, Hamdy Al Merghany helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
The Secret Men Club (2019) as زونط - ضيف شرف · Pharaoh's War (2019) as Hatatah Sayyed Wilah · Sugar Daddy (2023) as محيي
Career snapshot
Ranked #214885 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
2019–2024
Career length
5 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.4
The Secret Men Club
Average Nutevio score
5.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.4
The Secret Men Club
Most frequent director
Mahmoud Karim
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Mahmoud Karim
Most common genre
Comedy
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 21m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Secret Men Club, Pharaoh's War — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Secret Men Club, Pharaoh's War.
Most productive era
2020s
3 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Action | 6.41 film | 4.51 film |
| Thriller | 6.41 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.41 film | 4.83 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
Where our catalogue meets this career, as زونط - ضيف شرف. 6.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as الطبيب البيطري - ضيف شرف.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
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5 of 5 films
as الطبيب البيطري - ضيف شرف
Directed by Unknown
as الحاوي
Directed by Amr Salah
as Hatatah Sayyed Wilah
Directed by Raouf Abdul Aziz
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
زونط - ضيف شرف
The Secret Men Club (2019)
Performance score6.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. زونط - ضيف شرف gives Hamdy Al Merghany a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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الطبيب البيطري - ضيف شرف
The Gang of El Max (2024)
Performance score6.5
The Gang of El Max asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. الطبيب البيطري - ضيف شرف is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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محيي
Sugar Daddy (2023)
Performance score6.5
Sugar Daddy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. محيي is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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الحاوي
Zombie Ala Gamby (2022)
Performance score6.5
Zombie Ala Gamby asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. الحاوي is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as زونط - ضيف شرف
Start here. The Secret Men Club is the clearest statement of what Hamdy Al Merghany does — accessible, 99 minutes, and rated 6.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hamdy at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Pharaoh's War (2019)
A deliberate change of key after The Secret Men Club — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Zombie Ala Gamby (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Pharaoh's War — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Sugar Daddy (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Zombie Ala Gamby but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Gang of El Max (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of Sugar Daddy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Raouf Abdul Aziz
Director
1 film together
Notably Pharaoh's War
Khaled Al-Halafawi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Secret Men Club
Amr Salah
Director
1 film together
Notably Zombie Ala Gamby
Mahmoud Karim
Director
1 film together
Notably Sugar Daddy
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Khaled Al-Halafawi
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Secret Men ClubRaouf Abdul Aziz
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pharaoh's WarMahmoud Karim
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sugar DaddyAmr Salah
Director
1 film together · 4.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Zombie Ala GambySix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Pharaoh's War
as Hatatah Sayyed Wilah
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Secret Men Club
as زونط - ضيف شرف
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Secret Men Club
as زونط - ضيف شرف
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Pharaoh's War
as Hatatah Sayyed Wilah
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Secret Men Club
as زونط - ضيف شرف
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Hamdy Al Merghany has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
The Secret Men Club
as زونط - ضيف شرف
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Pharaoh's War
as Hatatah Sayyed Wilah
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Secret Men Club
as زونط - ضيف شرف
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Pharaoh's War
as Hatatah Sayyed Wilah
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pharaoh's War
as Hatatah Sayyed Wilah
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Pharaoh's War
as Hatatah Sayyed Wilah
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Secret Men Club
as زونط - ضيف شرف
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pharaoh's War
as Hatatah Sayyed Wilah
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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