Acting
El Hedi ben Salem
MoroccoBorn 1936
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.
9
Films
2
TV Shows
Known For
11 Credits
World on a Wire
as Bodyguard
1973
My Name Is Not Ali
as Self (archive footage)
2011
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
as Ali
1974
Martha
as Hotel Guest
1974
Fox and His Friends
as Salem the Moroccan (uncredited)
1975
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
as Dunkelhäutiger Arbeiter
1972
Tenderness of the Wolves
as Französischer Soldat
1973
The Merchant of Four Seasons
as Araber
1972
Jail Bait
1973
When Fear Eats the Soul
as Ali (archive footage)
2007
Like a Bird on a Wire
as Bodybuilder
1975