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Joseph Karimbeik

  • Actor
  • Director
  • Writer
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Joseph Karimbeik, also known as Hossein Karimbeik, is a film director, theatre director, actor and writer. He graduated from the London Drama Centre, received a master of filmmaking from the West London University and Met Film in Ealing Studios London and an MA in theatre directing from the University of Arts in London.

When he was invited to the international theatre festival in Volterra Italy, he directed Hamlet and Macbeth and met Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo who encouraged him to start his own theatre company where Dario Fo became a Patron. He also started and ran a charity for children in poverty and since 1986 he worked across the Atlantic.

Karimbeik is best known for his own writing and directing of "Uncle," "Someone else's child," "Whore," "My husband's wife" as well as directing Hedda Gabler by Ibsen, Miss Julie by Strindberg as well as playing many parts in films and television. Raschid in Mona Lisa, Colonel Hassan Ali in Half Moon Street, Hossein in Brothers and Lugash secret policeman in Curse of the Pink Panther, as well as television series like the Cold Warrior.

Recently he wrote and directed London Gangstah, and he is in the process of making a feature of this.
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London Gangstah (2016)
London Gangstah
Short
  • Director
  • 2016
Going Home
Video
  • Director
  • 2019
Absence
Video
  • Director
  • 2019
Love Is a Loser's Game (2016)
Love Is a Loser's Game
Short
  • Director
  • 2016

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Actor

  • Martine McCutcheon in The English Harem (2005)
    The English Harem
    • Abdullah (as Hossein Karombeik)
    • TV Movie
    • 2005
  • Brothers (2004)
    Brothers
    • Hossein, Afghanistan
    • 2004
  • Terence Stamp in The Alamut Ambush (1986)
    The Alamut Ambush
    • Mujid
    • TV Movie
    • 1986
  • Jeremy Child, James Faulkner, David Robb, and Tom Wilkinson in First Among Equals (1986)
    First Among Equals
    • Kadir
    • TV Mini Series
    • 1986
  • Sigourney Weaver and Michael Caine in Half Moon Street (1986)
    Half Moon Street
    • Colonel Hassan Ali
    • 1986
  • Bob Hoskins and Cathy Tyson in Mona Lisa (1986)
    Mona Lisa
    • Raschid (as Hossein Karimbeik)
    • 1986
  • Patsy Rowlands in The Collectors (1986)
    The Collectors
    • Sammy Mahkted (as Hossein Karimbeik)
    • TV Series
    • 1986
  • Andrew Robertson and Michael Wynne in Cold Warrior (1984)
    Cold Warrior
    • Dinek (as Hossein Karimbeik)
    • TV Series
    • 1984
  • Chessgame (1983)
    Chessgame
    • Mujid
    • TV Series
    • 1983
  • Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
    Curse of the Pink Panther
    • Lugash secret policeman
    • 1983

Director

  • Love Is a Loser's Game
    • Director
    • Completed
    • Short
    • 2016
  • Going Home
    • Director
    • Completed
    • Video
    • 2019
  • Absence
    • Director
    • Completed
    • Video
    • 2019
  • London Gangstah (2016)
    London Gangstah
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2016

Writer

  • Going Home
    • writer
    • Completed
    • Video
    • 2019
  • Absence
    • writer
    • Completed
    • Video
    • 2019
  • London Gangstah (2016)
    London Gangstah
    • Writer
    • Short
    • 2016

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    • Hossein Karimbeik
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