El Hedi ben Salem was born on March 4, 1936 in Redeyef, Gafsa, Tunisia. He was an actor, known for Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) and Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (1972). He died on March 14, 1976 in Nîmes, Gard, France.
El Hedi ben Salem
Movies
Fox
Working class and middle-upper class worlds come together in this interesting look at class conflict within the gay world from the German director Reiner Werner Fassbinder. Fassbinder plays Fox, he is working class, a former circus performer who wins the lottery of DM 500,000. His life starts to look up…
Fun Facts
Was the lover of Rainer Werner Fassbinder during the early 1970s and acted in several of his films.
He hanged himself in a French prison in 1977. The news of his death was kept hidden from Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who only heard about it a few months prior to his own death in 1982. Fassbinder dedicated Querelle (1982) to Salem.