Despite his great talent and the fact that his career took-off to a promising start with an involvement with Youssef Chahine, Amr was nonetheless assigned minor roles in his first few years in cinema. Thereafter, Amr proved his talents as a comedy actor when he performed in Khaled Youssef’s films “Heyna Maysarah” and “Dukkan Shehata”. Amr finally found a leading role in Youssef Chahine’s “Kalimny Shoukran”.