Biography
From Wikipedia Hamidou Benmessaoud (Arabic: حميدو بنمسعود; 2 August 1935 – 19 September 2013), best known as Amidou, was a Moroccan-French film, television and stage actor. Born in Rabat, at 17 Amidou moved to Paris to attend the CNSAD. In 1968 he made his debut on stage, in Jean Genet's Les paravents. Amidou is probably best known for his association with director Claude Lelouch, with whom he has shot eleven films, including the Lelouch's film debut Le propre de l'homme (1960). He made his ...
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Aïcha : Vacances infernales
2012
as M. Bouamaza

Aïcha : La grande débrouille
2011
as M. Bouamaza
Rid of her rival Gloria, Aïcha will do everything to make her boss proud, with Ginette's help. Patrick presents her with a love ultimatum: their mothe...

Aïcha : Job à tout prix
2011
as Mr. Bouamaza

Comme les 5 doigts de la main
2010
as Lakdar
Five brothers similar yet different, raised by a mother widowed too early. One of them had left the family when he returns, pursued by a gang of smugg...

Aïcha
2009
as M. Bouamaza

Ali Baba and the 40 thieves
2007
as Le Caliphe
The story of Ali Baba, who takes on forty thieves to save the Caliph of Baghdad and prevent a war between the Orient and the Occident.

Argana
2007
as Hamou
After the death of her husband Amghar, killed by the settlers, Tamghart resists the maneuvers of the traitor Hammou who quietly negotiates, despite th...

Heaven's Doors
2006
As co-directed by brothers Swad and Imad Noury (and produced by their mother, Pilar Cazorla), The Moroccan picture Heaven's Doors (2005) employs an ep...

Here and There
2004
“Rahal” immigrated to Europe forty years ago. Scandalized by the behavior of his eldest son who participated in a heist, he decides to return to Moroc...

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
2002
as l'inspecteur de police
A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.
Une histoire d'amour
2002
Aziz meets Wafaa, a young prostitute and tries to get out of his condition. His task won't be easy.

Spy Game
2001
as Sheik's Doctor
On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in B...

Rules of Engagement
2000
as Dr. Ahmar
A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in Yemen.

Hideous Kinky
1999
as Sufi Sheikh
In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and prec...

Ronin
1998
as Man at Exchange
A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembl...

Soleil
1997
as Mokzar
During a happy evening, the famous professor Levy, one of the masters of cardiac surgery, collapses, struck by a heart attack. His whole life comes ba...

Lalla Hobby
1996
As Haj Moussa is caught by border guards while trying to reach Gibraltar in a small boat, he is sent to prison, and his family tries to help him retur...
Unveiled
1994
as Det. Brahms
An American woman uses herself as bait to help a CIA agent trap an alleged serial killer in Morroco.

The Big Pardon 2
1992
as Si Ali
The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker who is about to launch a huge operation. But he ...

The Beautiful Story
1992
as Le berger
A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief an...

Hot Chocolate
1992
as Beauregard
B.J. Cassidy, a rich businesswoman, has to invest several billion dollars for fiscal reasons. She undertakes to buy back a small French factory, speci...

There Were Days... and Moons
1990
as Le motard au radar
How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its ch...

Brothers in Arms
1989
as Le Kabyle
Simon, a Jewish police inspector, arrests Karim, a Muslim, in the bust of a drug smuggling cargo ship, only to realize that Karim is an undercover age...

Bitter Champagne
1986
as Slim
In North Africa, a father and his illegitimate son are in love with the same woman.

The Night Wears Suspenders
1985
Jézabel, a worldly young woman, takes hold of Ariel, a shy and inexperienced young man, and leads him by hook or by crook through the wild side of Par...

Farewell Fred
1985
as Poupée
Fred is a gambler and deep in debt. He owes crime boss Victor a lot of money and the time to pay has come. He decides to take a massive risk to refund...

Les p’tites têtes
1982
as Prince Douzami
Henri, Daniel and Xavier have just opened a travel agency in Paris. Henri runs the agency while Daniel and Xavier go on trip to take care of the group...

Escape to Victory
1981
as André
A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners...

Les Avocats du Diable
1981
as Leader of the FLN
In 1958 in Paris, during the Algerian War, a young trainee lawyer, Maître Chabrier, was assigned to defend an Algerian garbage collector against parat...

Buddy Goes West
1981
as Girolamo / Eagle Eye
Trinity series star Bud Spencer returns to the Wild West in director Michele Lupo's comic tale of an outlaw drifter, Buddy, who is mistaken for a doct...

Sorcerer
1977
as Kassem / "Martinez"
Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting...

Rosebud
1975
as Kirkbane
In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film c...

Man in the Trunk
1973
as Abdul
Bloch, an Israeli secret agent, seeks refuge in the French embassy in Libya to escape being killed. Augier, his French opposite number, has to get him...

The Punishment
1973
as Raymond
Britt, deluxe call-girl, is punished by the brothel owner because she was not accomodating enough to a customer. From now on, she must obey to all cus...

3000 Million Without an Elevator
1972
as José
Seven small rogues dream of stealing the beautiful jewels which are in Paris for an exhibition.

Touch and Go
1971
as Ali
North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, tran...

Smic, Smac, Smoc
1971
as Robert 'Smoc'
Charles, Jean and Amidou are workmen at the La Ciotat shipyards and live in the same construction facility. One day, Amidou leaves them to marry Cathe...

The Crook
1970
as Bill
A thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession.

Countdown to Vengeance
1970
as Macias
10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a break-in. During the fight with the police, Franco...

Life Love Death
1969
as François Toledo
François Toledo, married businessman and father, falls head-over-heels in love with Janine, a work colleague. However, he is soon found out: after thr...

Soleil de Printemps
1969
The story of a young man of peasant origin, a minor official in Casablanca, which can not adapt to life in the big city.

Heartbeat
1968
as Etienne
The mistress of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover.

The Girl Across the Way
1968
as Womanizer
A young student visits the home of a friend who has all the good looks, women and luck. Every day, through binoculars from his friend's window, he see...

Sorrel Flower
1967
as Francis, le porte-flingue d'Albert Roza
Catherine is left unmarried and pregnant when her mobster sweetheart is killed in this gangster comedy. With the help of another unmarried mother-to-b...

Live for Life
1967
as photographe
Famous TV newscaster Robert Colomb is married to Catherine, but is continually unfaithful to her. Then he meets, and becomes fascinated with Candice.

Les grands moments
1966
as Roger Amy
Four prisoners are gathered in the same cell. Each tells the others how he got there.

Brigade Anti Gangs
1966
as 'Nez Cassé'
The struggle between a ruthless leader of a bank robbers and the cops who are determined to put him in jail for long.

To Be a Crook
1965
as Amidou
Four young people, tired of working life, decide that they can earn money from crime than they can from work. The film follows their training at the f...

La parole est au témoin
1963
as (voice)
Mustapha, a cab driver in Paris, charges a customer in a hurry, without realizing that he is in a hurry to escape his pursuers after robbing a jewelry...
Thé a la menthe
1962
A man sits at a cafe in Paris and watches the world go by.

The Right of Man
1961
At a friend's house, Claude meets Janine. The two young people spend the day wandering around Paris, from the café to the Foire du Trône, together or ...