Career
Due to his inexperience Shafeek struggled to find fulfilling acting roles after graduating from Guildhall School. His roles were largely confined to playing minor supporting parts such as immigrants, taxi drivers, tourists or customs officials. His first film role was as ‘Akbar’ in the film The Long Duel (1967), starring Yul Brynner.
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