Ian Dallas
Actor, Escritor
30 de octubre de 1930 — 1 de agosto de 2021 (90 años)
After a brief career in acting, Ian Dallas, a native-born Scotsman, later reverted to Islam and joined the Shadhili-Darqawi Order of Sufis in Morocco. Upon the death of his Shaykh, Shaykh Muhammad Ibn al-Habib, Dallas became the Shaykh of the Order under the name Shaykh Abdulqadir as-Sufi, the name he was given by his Shaykh. He is still active today (2004) as the leader of the worldwide Murabitun movement of Sufis. He wrote a fictionalized account of his journey into Sufism in a novel, "The Book of Strangers." It is also said that, while living in London in the 1960s, he was friends with Eric Clapton, and gave Clapton a copy of the ancient Persian Sufi parable "Layla and Majnun," which later became the basis for Clapton's song "Layla" about his own ill-fated romance.
Filmography
| 1963 | 8½ · as Maurice, Maya's AssistantEn Plex |
| 1960 | BBC Sunday-Night Play · as Reverend Spooner |
| 1957 | Television World Theatre · as Adaptation |
| 1950 | Sunday Night Theatre · as Television Adaptation |