Khalid Salleh

Khalid Salleh

Acting
1948-02-29
Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia

Biography

Khalid Salleh (29 Februari 1948 – 23 Julai 2018) is a Malaysian actor, writer, poet, theatre activist and a medicine seller. His success was being nominated and won the Best Actor Award at the 51st Asia Pacific Film Festival(FFAP) in 1998 at Taipei, Taiwan for his role in Jogho. This marks him the second Malaysian actor to won the award after the late P Ramlee won it in his role Anak-ku Sazali at the 4th FFAP edition on 1956 held in Tokyo, Japan.

Known For & Full Filmography6 Titles

#1The Arsonist

Movie - 2001, 2h 15m as Kakang

7.0 / 10
Drama

The Arsonist involves the struggles of an undocumented immigrant family and a boy's coming-of-age. The son Kesuma must forge his own identity against the intimidating presence of his father Kakang, a man proud of his Javanese heritage and well aware of the social inequalities that allow his exploitation. Kakang counteracts by torching the property of those who slight him, leaving Kesuma simultaneously proud, fearful and ashamed. A clash of wills is all but inevitable. The film climaxes in a poignant conflagration, literal and metaphorical.

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#2Mountain of Gold

Movie - 2016, 2h 15m as Orang Kaya Tinggi

6.7 / 10
Drama

The story of Almayer, a Dutch trader struggling to survive in Malaysia at the turn of the 19th Century. His dream of finding a mythical gold mountain is challenged by his scheming wife, the colonial authorities, the political machinations of the local chief and Arab traders, and his daughter's love for a freedom-fighting Malay prince.

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#3Jogho

Movie - 1999, 2h 15m as Mamat

10.0 / 10
Drama

Mamat is a native of Kelantan, Malaysia, but he had left Malaysia many years earlier to join his brother Lazim in South Thailand in order to continue making his living as a trainer of fighting bulls (a Jogho). The practice had been outlawed in Malaysia but continued in Thailand. Mamat lives with his wife and three daughters, three divorcees and one who has not yet married, but he has sent his only son to boarding school in Kelantan. Mamat and Lazim are the leaders in a small village that depends mostly on the money won from gambling in bullfights for its sustenance. The story begins when Lazim is killed by Isa at the bullfighting arena.

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#4Buai Laju-Laju

Movie - 2004, 2h 15m as Ibrahim

5.0 / 10
RomanceDramaCrime

Zaiton seduces a drifter named Amran into murdering her elderly husband, Ibrahim, to get his money and land.

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#5Penghujung Malam

Movie - 1992, 2h 15m as Razak

10.0 / 10
Drama

"Penghujung Malam" explores the lives of a husband and wife conflict of Razak and Sopiah. Although already married and had a daughter named Norita, Sopiah seemed to forget his responsibilities. Sopiah giddy with other guys cause Razak Sopiah bored and left and went to Indonesia.

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#6Motif

Movie - 2019, 2h 15m as Yasmin Father

8.8 / 10
ThrillerCrimeDrama

Motif focuses on a police investigation and its most obvious innovation is the female perspective that the director imposes. Protagonist Dewi (Sharifah Amani) is a police officer who is sent from the capital of Kuala Lumpur to a provincial area, Tanah Merah (lit. “Red Earth”), to investigate the disappearance of the young daughter of the local community’s richest family. From the beginning, her arrival is greeted with distrust by her male colleagues, who are doubly annoyed by the fact of having an outsider who is also a woman intrude in the community.

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