Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1936-01-01
Deathday
1976-01-01
Place of Birth
Morocco
El Hedi ben Salem
Biography
El Hedi ben Salem was a Moroccan actor. He is best known as the lover and collaborator of provocative German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He died while in prison. Fassbinder dedicated his last film, Querelle (1982), to Salem. In 2012, a documentary on Salem's life entitled My Name Is Not Ali, premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival.
Known For
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
as Ali
Fox and His Friends
as Salem the Moroccan (uncredited)
The Merchant of Four Seasons
as Araber
World on a Wire
as Bodyguard
Martha
as Hotel Guest
Tenderness of the Wolves
as Französischer Soldat
Jail Bait
Like a Bird on a Wire
as Bodybuilder
My Name Is Not Ali
as Self (archive footage)
When Fear Eats the Soul
as Ali (archive footage)