El Hedi ben Salem is a Moroccan actor. He is best known as the lover and collaborator of provocative German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He hanged himself while in prison. Fassbinder dedicated his last film, Querelle (1982), to Salem. In 2012, a documentary on Salem's life entitled My Name Is Not Ali, premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival.

• Angst essen Seele auf (1974)

  
• Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe (1973)

  
• Wie ein Vogel auf dem Draht (1975)

  
• Jannat 'Ali (2011)