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Moustapha Akkad
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “producer”. Today it says “syrian-american muslim film producer and director”.
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Moustapha Akkad (born in 1935, in Syria ) is a producer, director and actor. He is best known for his participation in Halloween (movie) (8 films) as an executive producer and the movies The Message and Lion of the Desert as a director. He is the only producer that has participated in all movies of the Halloween series.1
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producer
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syrian-american muslim film producer and director
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