Khaled Taja

A Syrian actor of Kurdish origins born in Damascus At the age of eight he discovered that he was fond of drawing and fell in love with the imagination of the shadow At the age of ten he began to frequently visit the seven theaters of Damascus such as AlNasr AlRasheed and Andalus He starred in two theatrical works written and directed by one of his high school teachers In 1956 he moved to the Free Theater troupe He played a number of roles on stage after which he moved on to writing and directing for theater Among his works in this field is The Servants of the Rich which he also costarred in He also wrote the play The Crazy which did not see the light due to the bad financial circumstance he suffered after his fathers death In 1965 the Yugoslavian director Boško Futonovic chose him to star in the movie Truck Driver