Who is Sami Khayat? Age, Cause of Death, Bio, Career, Family

Lebanese actor, Sami khayat aka Samy Khayat died on Wednesday as per the source.

What Happened to Samy Khay?

Lebanese actor, director, and screenwriter Samy Khayat died on Wednesday, one of his relatives confirmed to L’Orient-Le Jour.

The tailor of life passed away on Wednesday evening at Rizq Hospital in Beirut, where he had been in intensive care for about a week due to complications of his bone cancer.

Samy Khayat Cause of Death

Sami Khayat died on 26 April 20. Samy was 79. He died from a bone cancer. He was suffering from bone for many years. According to his daughter Sabin Khayat, he is a tailor for France press.

Writers express themselves by writing and painters by painting. As for me, I express myself by laughing,” he often said

Who was Samy Khayat?

Sami Khayat was a Lebanese-French actor, director, and writer who specialized in comedic theatre. He is regarded as one of Lebanon’s comedic theater’s forefathers. With the play Molière Hugo and Sofocole, which he performed in 1960, he launched his creative career. His plays were categorized as chansonnier or satirical lyric theatre. From 1973 to 1986 and again in 2013, he sparred with Pierre Chamassian. He was honored on numerous occasions in Lebanon by The Gebran Tueni Foundation and received the French Medal of Arts and Literature with the rank of Officer in 2020 in recognition of his 60 years of theatrical work in the French and Franco-Lebanese languages, which he continued to do even during the Civil War.

Samy Khayat Awards and Recognition

With his wife Nayla who also accompanied him on stage for many years, in the 1970s he relaunched the activities of the Society for the Protection of Animals in Lebanon founded by his father Albert Khayat in 1927. In 2020, he received the Medal of the French Order of Arts and Letters, to the rank of officer, in recognition of his career on the boards, in French and Franco-Lebanese.

For this goldsmith of words and gags, laughter was also and above all a platform. “Writers express themselves by writing, painters by painting. As for me, I express myself by laughing,” he often said. But it was undoubtedly the freedom procured by the humorous register that gave wings to his fertile and jubilant imagination.

Samy Khayat Obituary

Lebanese actor, director, and screenwriter Samy Khayat died on Wednesday, one of his relatives confirmed to L’Orient-Le Jour.

The career of this prolific French-speaking actor, who claimed in 2017 at L’Orient-Le Jour “an audience of 7 to 97 years old, without offense to Hergé”, had begun in 1960.

Samy Khayat graduated in law, political science, modern literature, and linguistics from French universities in Lebanon (Saint-Joseph University and Beirut School of Letters). Creator and producer of 62 satirical shows in Franbanais since 1960, he is also the author of works in French: Cent Titres; The Springs of Comedy in French; Know me yourself; Jean Chidiac, the professional of the Impossible.

A fervent spokesperson for “francais”, a spoken mixture of French and Lebanese, he had written a book on the subject which was published in early 2023, The Franbanais on the Go.

He was also president of the Society for the Protection of Animals in Lebanon.

In 2020, he received the Medal of the French Order of Arts and Letters, at the rank of officer, in recognition of his career on the boards, in French and Franco-Lebanese.