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Omar Sharif

Omar Sharif[a] (Arabic: عمر الشريف Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈʕomɑɾ eʃʃɪˈɾiːf]; born Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub[1] [miˈʃel dɪˈmitɾi ʃælˈhuːb], 10 April 1932 – 10 July 2015) was an Egyptian actor, generally regarded as one of his country's greatest male film stars.[6][7][8] He began his career in his native country in the 1950s, but is best known for his appearances in American, British, French, and Italian productions. His career encompassed over 100 films spanning 50 years, and brought him many accolades including three Golden Globe Awards and a César Award for Best Actor.


Omar Sharif
عمر شريف
Sharif in 2009
Born
Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub[1]

(1932-04-10)10 April 1932
Died10 July 2015(2015-07-10) (aged 83)
Cairo, Egypt
Burial placeAl-Sayyida Nafisa Cemetery
NationalityEgyptian
Other namesOmar el-Sherief,[2][3] Omar Cherif[4]
EducationVictoria College, Alexandria
Alma materCairo University
OccupationActor
Years active1954–2015[5]
Spouse
(m. 1955; div. 1974)
Children1
RelativesOmar Sharif Jr. (grandson)
Awards
Honours Order of Merit

Sharif played opposite Peter O'Toole as Sherif Ali in the David Lean epic Lawrence of Arabia (1962), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and portrayed the title role in Lean's Doctor Zhivago (1965), earning him the Golden Globe for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. He continued to play romantic leads, in films like Funny Girl (1968) and The Tamarind Seed (1974), and historical figures like the eponymous characters in Genghis Khan (1965) and Che! (1969). His acting career continued well into old age, with a well-received turn as a Muslim Turkish immigrant in the French film Monsieur Ibrahim (2003). He made his final film appearance in 2015, the year of his death.

Sharif spoke five languages:[9][10] Arabic, English, French, Italian and Spanish.[11] He bridled at travel restrictions imposed by the government of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, leading to self-exile in Europe. He was a lifelong horse racing enthusiast, and at one time ranked among the world's top contract bridge players. He was the recipient of high civil honors from multiple countries, including the Egyptian Order of Merit and the French Legion of Honour. He was one of only 25 grantees of UNESCO's Sergei Eisenstein Medal, in recognition of his significant contributions to world film and cultural diversity.[12]

Early life

Sharif was born Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub (Arabic: ميشيل يوسف ديمتري شلهوب ) in Alexandria, Kingdom of Egypt (now Arab Republic of Egypt),[13][14] to a Melkite Greek Catholic family of Lebanese descent,[15] making him and his family members of the Antiochian Greek Christian minority (also known as Rūm).[16] He adopted the surname Sharif, meaning "noble" or "nobleman" in Arabic, after converting to Islam in the 1950s.[17][18][19]

His father, Yusef Chalhoub, a precious-woods merchant, moved to the port city of Alexandria with his mother in the early 20th century from Zahle.[20][21] Sharif was later born in Alexandria.[21] His family moved to Cairo when he was four.[22] His mother, Claire Saada, was a noted society hostess, in whose house Egypt's King Farouk was a regular visitor prior to his deposition in 1952.[23]

In his youth, Sharif studied at Victoria College, Alexandria, where he showed a talent for languages. He later graduated from Cairo University with a degree in mathematics and physics.[24] He worked for a while in his father's precious wood business before beginning his acting career in Egypt. In 1955, he adopted the stage name "Omar Sharif".[24][25] He married fellow Egyptian actress Faten Hamama.[26][27]

It has been widely reported that Sharif studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London,[23][24] but the academy told Al Jazeera that this was not true.[28]

Acting career

Egyptian movie star

In 1954, Sharif began his acting career in Egypt with a role in Struggle in the Valley (1954) ("Seraa' Fi el-Wadi"). He was also in Shaytan el-Sahra (1954) ("Devil of the Desert").

He quickly rose to stardom, appearing in Our Beautiful Days (1955), The Lebanese Mission (1956) (a French film), Struggle in the Pier (1956), Sleepless (1957) ("La Anam"), Land of Peace (1957), Goha (1958) (a Tunisian film that marked the debut of Claudia Cardinale), Struggle on the Nile (1958), Sayyidat al-Qasr (1958), A Beginning and an End (1960), A Rumor of Love (1960), the Anna Karenina adaptation The River of Love ("Nahr El-Hob") of Ezz El-Dine Zulficar (1960). He and his wife co-starred in several movies as romantic leads. Sharif achieved success through other movies like Struggle on the Nile (1959), A Rumor of Love (1960), and There is a man in our House (1961), which made him a huge competitor to Salah Zulfikar, Shoukry Sarhan and Rushdy Abaza, the Egyptian cinema giants at the time.[29]

Lawrence of Arabia

Sharif's first English-language role was that of (the fictitious) Sherif Ali in David Lean's historical epic Lawrence of Arabia in 1962. Sharif was given the role when Dilip Kumar turned it down, Horst Buchholz proved unavailable and Maurice Ronet could not use the contact lenses necessary to hide his eyes.[30]

Casting Sharif in what is now considered one of the "most demanding supporting roles in Hollywood history" was both complex and risky as he was virtually unknown at the time outside Egypt. However, as historian Steven Charles Caton notes, Lean insisted on using ethnic actors when possible to make the film authentic.[31]: 56  Sharif would later use his ambiguous ethnicity in other films: "I spoke French, Greek, Italian, Spanish and even Arabic", he said.[32] As Sharif noted, his accent enabled him to "play the role of a foreigner without anyone knowing exactly where I came from", which he stated proved highly successful throughout his career.[31]: 56 

To secure the role, Sharif had to sign a seven-film contract with Columbia at $50,000 a film.[33]

Lawrence was a box office and critical sensation. Sharif's performance earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, as well as a shared Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor.[34][35]

 
Sharif in 1963

Sharif went on to star in another Hollywood film, Anthony Mann's The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) where he played the support role of Sohaemus of Armenia.

Sharif was third-billed in Columbia's Behold a Pale Horse (1964), playing a priest in the Spanish Civil War alongside Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn. Director Fred Zinnemann said he chose Sharif partly on the suggestion of David Lean. "He said he was an absolutely marvellous actor, 'If you possibly can, take a look at him.'"[36] Film historian Richard Schickel wrote that Sharif gave a "truly wonderful performance", especially noteworthy because of his totally different roles in Lawrence of Arabia: "It is hard to believe that the priest and the sheik are played by the same man".[37] The film, like Fall of the Roman Empire, was a commercial disappointment.[38]

Sharif was one of many stars in MGM's The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), playing a Yugoslav wartime patriot; the movie was a hit.

Sharif had his first lead role in a Hollywood movie when he was cast in the title part of Genghis Khan (1965). Produced by Irving Allen and directed by Henry Levin for Columbia, the $4.5 million epic was a box office disappointment. He had a supporting role in a French Marco Polo biopic, Marco the Magnificent (1965), starring Buchholz and Quinn.

Doctor Zhivago

While making Genghis Khan, Sharif heard that Lean was making Doctor Zhivago (1965), an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's 1957 novel.[39] Sharif was a fan of the novel and lobbied for one of the supporting roles, but Lean decided instead to cast him in the lead as Yuri Zhivago, a poet and physician.[40]

Film historian Constantine Santas explained that Lean intended the film to be a poetic portrayal of the period, with large vistas of landscapes combined with a powerful score by Maurice Jarre. He noted that Sharif's role is "passive", his eyes reflecting "reality" which then become "the mirror of reality we ourselves see".[41]

In a commentary on the DVD (2001 edition), Sharif described Lean's style of directing as similar to a general commanding an army.[41]: xxviii  The film was a huge hit. For his performance, Sharif was named best actor in a motion picture drama.[42] Doctor Zhivago remains one of the top ten highest-grossing films of all time after adjusting for inflation.[43]

Sharif followed it with a cameo in The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966). He, O'Toole and Lawrence producer Sam Spiegel were reunited in The Night of the Generals (1967). His fourth movie for Columbia, Sharif played a German officer in World War II. The film was not a success, nor was the Italian-French fairytale More Than a Miracle (1967), despite featuring Sophia Loren as co-star.

Funny Girl

Sharif was also praised for his portrayal of Nicky Arnstein in Funny Girl (1968) for Columbia pictures. He portrayed the husband of Fanny Brice, played by Barbra Streisand in her first film role. His decision to work alongside Streisand angered Egypt's government because she was a vocal supporter of the State of Israel,[44] and the country condemned the film. It was also "immediately banned" in numerous Arab nations.[45]: 48  Streisand herself jokingly responded, "You think Cairo was upset? You should've seen the letter I got from my Aunt Rose!"[46] Sharif and Streisand became romantically involved during the filming.[45]: 18 

He admitted later that he did not find Streisand attractive at first, but her appeal soon overwhelmed him: "About a week from the moment I met her", he recalled, "I was madly in love with her. I thought she was the most gorgeous girl I'd ever seen in my life...I found her physically beautiful, and I started lusting after this woman."[45]: 48 [47]

Other films

Sharif co-starred with Catherine Deneuve in Mayerling (1968), and the following year was reunited with Gregory Peck in the western, Mackenna's Gold (1969), an unsuccessful attempt to repeat the success of The Guns of Navarone (1961). At 20th Century Fox he played Che Guevara in Che! which flopped at the box office.

The Appointment (1969) teamed Sharif with Anouk Aimée and director Sidney Lumet but was not a hit. James Clavell's The Last Valley (1971) was a huge flop, despite co-starring Michael Caine.[48]

The Horsemen (1971), directed by John Frankenheimer and the last movie under his Columbia contract, also performed poorly at the box office.[49]

Sharif later said, "What killed my career was appearing in a succession of films you wouldn't turn down. They were by good directors, but they were bad films." He specifically referenced Behold a Pale Horse, The Appointment and The Horsemen.[33]

The Burglars (1971), a French crime film with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Dyan Cannon was a huge hit in France but little seen in the English speaking world.[50]

1970s

Sharif played Captain Nemo for European TV in an adaptation of Mysterious Island (1973).

Sharif appeared in a romantic thriller alongside Julie Andrews for Blake Edwards, The Tamarind Seed (1974); it did well at the box office and the critics gave good reviews.

He supported Richard Harris and David Hemmings in a thriller, Juggernaut (1974).

Sharif reprised the role of Nick Arnstein in the sequel to Funny Girl, Funny Lady in 1975.[51] He starred in a West German thriller Crime and Passion (1976) and had a cameo in Edwards' The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976).

Sharif had a small role in Ashanti (1979), starring Caine and a bigger one in Bloodline (1979).

"I lost money on gambling, buying horses, things like that", he later said. "So I made those movies which I knew were rubbish... I'd call my agent and tell him to accept any part, just to bail myself out."[33]

1980s

Sharif had a lead part in a spy spoof, S*H*E (1980) and was second-billed (after James Coburn) in The Baltimore Bullet (1980). He had supporting parts in a Chevy Chase comedy Oh! Heavenly Dog (1981) and a Ryan O'Neal thriller Green Ice (1981) (which was made in the 1970s), and a small role in the comedy Top Secret! (1984).

He appeared on stage in a production of The Sleeping Prince in 1983, saying he "appeared in the bad films of great directors".[52]

Sharif worked steadily in television, appearing in Pleasure Palace (1981), Peter the Great (1986), and Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986) (as Nicholas II of Russia). He had supporting parts in Grand Larceny (1987) and The Possessed (1988). He also appeared in the movie Rambo III (1988) as Masoud. His first notable credit in a while was Mountains of the Moon (1990) but Sharif's part was only small.

He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1989, when he was surprised by Michael Aspel outside his Paris apartment.[citation needed]

1990s

Sharif was reunited with O'Toole a third time in The Rainbow Thief (1990). He went to Egypt for War in the Land of Egypt (1991) and France for Mayrig (1991) with Claudia Cardinale, an autobiographical tale for Henri Verneuil. The latter was popular enough for a sequel, 588 rue paradis (1992).

Sharif could also be seen in Memories of Midnight (1991), Beyond Justice (1992), Catherine the Great (as Alexei Razumovsky), Gulliver's Travels (1996), Heaven Before I Die (1997), and Mysteries of Egypt (1998).

In 1996, Sharif starred in the documentary Lebanon...Imprisoned Splendour. The documentary was written and directed by Lebanese-Australian director Daizy Gedeon, who approached Sharif for the project because she wanted someone 'remarkable' to help her tell the true story of Lebanon: a country which, at the time, was still shrouded in the fog of its Civil War.[53] In the film, Sharif shares personal stories of his upbringing in a Lebanese family, and recites the poetry of famous Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran.

He had his first decent role in a big Hollywood film in a long time with The 13th Warrior (1999). The outcome of the film's production disappointed Sharif so much that he temporarily retired from film acting, not taking a role in another major film until 2003's Monsieur Ibrahim:

I said to myself, 'Let us stop this nonsense, these meal tickets that we do because it pays well.' I thought, 'Unless I find a stupendous film that I love and that makes me want to leave home to do, I will stop.' Bad pictures are very humiliating, I was really sick. It is terrifying to have to do the dialogue from bad scripts, to face a director who does not know what he is doing, in a film so bad that it is not even worth exploring."[54]

Monsieur Ibrahim and later films

 
Sharif at the Venice Film Festival in 2009.

Sharif did have a small role in The Parole Officer (2001). In 2003 he said, "I went 25 years without making a good film."[33]

In 2003, Sharif received acclaim for his leading role in Monsieur Ibrahim, a French-language film adaptation of the novel Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran, as a Muslim Turkish merchant who becomes a father figure for a Jewish boy.[55][56] For this performance, Sharif received the César Award for Best Actor.[57]

Sharif said of the film:

 
Omar Sharif receiving the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (2003)

It has nice big chunks of dialogue, which is what I like to do, rather than riding horses or camels. I'd turned down everything and stopped working for four years. I said, 'I'm going to stop doing that rubbish and keep some dignity.' But when I read the script for 'Monsieur Ibrahim,' I phoned the producers immediately. I said, 'Hang on, I'm coming, wait for me.' My problem is finding parts. When you're young and successful, they write or adapt parts for you. But when you're an old chap, let's be frank, you don't sell tickets anymore. If they need an old Englishman, American or Italian, there are plenty of actors around. So what's open for me? Old Arabs. And that's what I play in this film.[33]

Sharif's later film roles included performances in Hidalgo (2004), Imperium: Saint Peter (2005) playing the title role for Italian television, One Night with the King (2005) (again with O'Toole), and 10,000 BC (2008) as the narrator.

Sharif was seen in The Ten Commandments (2006). Also in 2006, Sharif played the artist Hans Canon in "The Crown Prince", a film about Rudolf, the 19th century crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

In Egypt he starred in Hassan and Marcus (2008) with Adel Emam' and was in The Traveller (2009). He had support roles in The Last Templar (2009) and Rock the Casbah (2013).[58]

Sharif's final role was as lead actor in the short science education film 1001 Inventions and the World of Ibn Al-Haytham, which was directed by Ahmed Salim and was released as part of the United Nations' International Year of Light campaign, operated by UNESCO.[59][60]

Contract bridge career

 
Sharif playing contract bridge in the Netherlands, 1967.
 
Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif playing bridge on the set of MacKenna's Gold, 1969.

Sharif said bridge was his personal passion and at one time was ranked among the world's top 50 contract bridge players. At the 1964 World Bridge Olympiad he represented the United Arab Republic bridge squad and in 1968 he was playing captain of the Egyptian team in the Olympiad.[61]

In 1967 he formed the Omar Sharif Bridge Circus to showcase bridge to the world and invited professional players including members of the Italian Blue team, which won 16 World championship titles, to tour and promote the game via exhibition matches including one watched by the Shah of Iran.[62] Touring through Europe, the Circus attracted thousands of spectators who watched the matches via Bridge-O-Rama, a new technology (and predecessor to the modern-day VuGraph) that displayed bidding and cardplay on television monitors. Players included Benito Garozzo, (considered by many as the greatest bridge player of all time) plus his Italian compatriots Pietro Forquet and Giorgio Belladonna and Frenchman Claude Delmouly.

In 1970, Sharif and the circus went to London's famous Piccadilly Hotel for an 80-rubber match against British experts Jeremy Flint and Jonathan Cansino. The stakes were £1 per point, huge stakes even by today's standards. The event was to present bridge as a rich, exciting spectacle and to break through into television to bring the game within the reach of millions. The Circus ultimately won the match by 5,470 points, but Sharif still incurred a net loss after paying all related expenses.

The Circus, under the management of Mike Ledeen, toured Canada and the U.S. in 1970–71. Sharif's team joined with the Dallas Aces for a seven-city tour of Chicago, Winnipeg, Los Angeles, Minneapolis–St. Paul, Dallas, Detroit and Philadelphia. In each city, a team of local experts participated in the exhibition.

In 1975, sponsored by the Lancia division of Fiat, Sharif and members of the Italian Blue Team faced off in four challenge matches against American teams. Sharif's team won in Chicago, but was defeated in New York, Los Angeles and Miami.

The Omar Sharif World Individual Championship held in 1990 offered the largest total purse ($200,000) in the history of bridge.[63][64]

In 1997, he was a member of the Committee of Honour for the Bermuda Bowl on the first time it was held in an Arab country, Tunisia. He competed in a transnational team (with French, German and Lebanese players) and finished 11th. In 1999 he played in a French senior team at the European Championships in Malta, finishing second. In 2000 at Maastricht, he joined Egypt's senior team, finishing in ninth place.[65]

With Charles Goren and later Tannah Hirsch, Sharif contributed to a syndicated newspaper bridge column for the Chicago Tribune.[66]

He was also both author and co-author of several books on bridge and licensed his name to a bridge video game, Omar Sharif Bridge, initially released in an MS-DOS version and Amiga version in 1992 and is still sold in Windows and mobile platform versions.[67] He was also the hand analyst commentator for the Epson worldwide bridge contests.

Sharif was a regular in casinos in France.[68]

By 2000 Sharif had stopped playing bridge entirely. Having once proudly declared the game his passion, he now considered it an addiction: "I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling." Sharif, however, continued to license his name to bridge software games, and co-authored a book with bridge writer David Bird, "Omar Sharif Talks Bridge". Written in 2004, it includes some of his most famous deals and bridge stories.[69]

Personal life

Family and personal relationships

 
A scene from the movie Land of Peace (1957).

Sharif lived in Egypt from his birth until he moved to Europe in 1965.[70] He recounted that in 1932, his father "wasn't a wealthy man", but "earned quite a bit of money".[71] Before the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, King Farouk frequented Sharif's family home, and became a friend and card-game partner of Sharif's mother. His mother was an elegant and charming hostess who was all too delighted with the association because it gave her the privilege of "consorting only with the elite" of Egyptian society. Sharif also recounted that his father's timber business was very successful during that time in ways that Sharif describes as dishonest or immoral.[72] By contrast, after 1952, Sharif stated that wealth changed hands in Egypt under Nasser's nationalisation policies[73] and his father's business "took a beating".

In 1954, Sharif starred in the film Struggle in the Valley with Faten Hamama, who shared a kiss with him although she had previously refused to kiss on screen.[74] The two fell in love; Sharif converted to Islam, changed his name, and married her.[75] They had one son, Tarek Sharif, born in 1957 in Egypt, who appeared in Doctor Zhivago as Yuri at the age of eight. The couple separated in 1966 and their marriage ended in divorce in 1974.[76] Sharif never remarried; he stated that after his divorce he never fell in love with another woman again.[76] Before their divorce, Sharif dated actresses Pat Sheehan and Dodie Marshall.[77]

The Nasser government imposed travel restrictions in the form of "exit visas", so Sharif's travel to take part in international films was sometimes impeded, something he found to be intolerable.[76] These restrictions influenced Sharif's decision to remain in Europe between his film shoots, a decision that cost him his marriage, though the couple remained friends. It was a major crossroad in Sharif's life and changed him from an established family man to a committed bachelor living in European hotels. When commenting about his fame and life in Hollywood, Sharif said, "It gave me glory, but it gave me loneliness also. And a lot of missing my own land, my own people and my own country".[76] When Sharif's affair with Streisand was made public in the Egyptian press, his Egyptian citizenship was almost withdrawn by the Egyptian government because of Streisand being Jewish[78] and a vocal supporter of Israel, which was then in a state of war with Egypt.[79]

Sharif became friends with Peter O'Toole during the making of Lawrence of Arabia. They appeared in several other films together and remained close friends. He was also good friends with Egyptologist Zahi Hawass. Actor and friend Tom Courtenay revealed in an interview for the 19 July 2008 edition of BBC Radio's Test Match Special that Sharif supported Hull City Association Football Club and in the 1970s he would telephone their automated scoreline from his home in Paris for score updates. Sharif was given an honorary degree by the University of Hull in 2010 and he used the occasion to meet Hull City football player Ken Wagstaff.[80] Sharif also had an interest in horse racing spanning more than 50 years. He was often seen at French racecourses, with Deauville-La Touques Racecourse being his favourite. Sharif's horses won a number of important races and he had his best successes with Don Bosco,[81] who won the Prix Gontaut-Biron, Prix Perth and Prix du Muguet.[82] He also wrote for a French horse racing magazine.[83]

In later life, Sharif lived mostly in Cairo with his family and his last partner Andréa Ferréol.[84] [76] In addition to his son Tarek Sharif, he had two grandsons, Omar Sharif Jr (born 1983 in Montreal) and Karim.[76] Omar Sharif Jr is also an actor. [85]

Sharif was also one of the ambassadors of Egypt's bid for the 2010 FIFA World Cup which lost out to South Africa.[86]

His position on the 2011 Egyptian revolution

 
Sharif in April 2015, three months prior to his death

Sharif was very supportive of the 2011 Youth revolution in his home country and asked for the resignation of Hosni Mubarak, stating: "Given that the entire Egyptian people don't want him and he's been in power for 30 years, that's enough."[87]

Health problems and death

Sharif had a triple heart bypass operation in 1992 and suffered a mild heart attack in 1994. Until his bypass, Sharif smoked 25 cigarettes a day. He quit smoking after the operation.

In May 2015, it was reported that Sharif was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.[88] His son Tarek Sharif (who portrayed his father's character as a child in Doctor Zhivago) said that his father was becoming confused when remembering some of the biggest films of his career; he would mix up the names of his best-known films, Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia, often forgetting where they were filmed.

On 10 July 2015, less than six months after his former wife's death at the same age, Sharif died after suffering a heart attack at a hospital in Cairo.[89]

On 12 July 2015, Sharif's funeral was held at the Grand Mosque of Mushir Tantawi in eastern Cairo. The funeral was attended by a group of Sharif's relatives, friends and Egyptian actors, his coffin draped in the Egyptian flag and a black shroud. His coffin was later taken to the El-Sayeda Nafisa cemetery in southern Cairo, where he was buried.[90]

Awards

At the 35th Academy Awards, Sharif was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia but lost to Ed Begley. He won two Golden Globe awards in the same year for his role. In 1966, he won a third Golden Globe award for the titular role in the film Doctor Zhivago. In November 2005, Sharif was awarded the inaugural[91] Sergei Eisenstein Medal by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in recognition of his significant contributions to world film and cultural diversity. The medal, which is awarded very infrequently, is named after Russian director Sergei Eisenstein. Only 25 have been struck, as determined by the agreement between UNESCO, Russia's Mosfilm and the Vivat Foundation.[92]

Honours

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
1954 Shaytan al-Sahra[93] Essam Also known as Devil of the Sahara
Sira` Fi al-Wadi Ahmed Also known as The Blazing Sun, Struggle in the Valley and Fight in the Valley
1955 Ayyamna al-Holwa Ahmed Also known as Our Best Days
1956 La Châtelaine du Liban Mokrir Also known as The Lebanese Mission; credited as Omar Cherif
Sira` Fi al-Mina Ragab Also known as A Fight Within the Port
1957 La Anam Aziz Also known as Sleepless and No Tomorrow
Ard al-Salam Ahmed Also known as Land of Peace
1958 Goha Goha Credited as Omar Cherif
Shatie el asrar Mamdoh Also known as Beach of Secrets
Ghaltet habibi Salah Also known as My Lover's Fault
1959 Siraa fil Nil[94] Muhassab Also known as Struggle on the Nile
Sayyidat al-Qasr Adel Also known as Lady of the Palace
Min ajal emraa Shokri Also known as For a Woman
Maweed maa maghoul Madgi Also known as An Appointment with the Unknown
Fadiha fil Zamalek Ahmed Also known as Scandel in Zamalek
1960 Nahna el talamiza Adel Also known as We Are the Students
Lawet el hub Hasan Also known as Love Sickness
1961 Gharam el assiad Essam Murad Also known as Masters Love
Bidaya wa Nihaya Hassanien Also known as A Beginning and an End
Esha'a hob Hussein Also known as A Rumor of Love
Nahr al-Hob Khalid Also known as The River of Love
Hobi al-Wahid Captain Adel Also known as My Only Love
Fi Baytouna Ragoul[94] Ibrahim Also known as في بيتنا رجل and A Man in our House
1962 Lawrence of Arabia Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor
Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1964 The Fall of the Roman Empire Sohamus
Behold a Pale Horse Francisco
The Yellow Rolls-Royce Davich
1965 Genghis Khan Genghis Khan
Marco the Magnificent Sheik Alla Hou, 'The Desert Wind'
Doctor Zhivago Dr. Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
El mamalik Ahmed
1967 The Night of the Generals Major Grau
More Than a Miracle Prince Rodrigo Fernandez
1968 Funny Girl Nicky Arnstein
Mayerling Archduke Rudolf
1969 Mackenna's Gold John Colorado
The Appointment Frenderico Fendi
Che! Che Guevara
Trois hommes sur un cheval Un turfiste Uncredited
1971 The Last Valley Vogel
The Horsemen Uraz
The Burglars Abel Zacharia Simultaneously shot in French as Le Casse with the same cast
1972 Le Droit d'aimer Pierre
1973 The Mysterious Island Captain Nemo
1974 The Tamarind Seed Feodor Sverdlov
Juggernaut Captain Alex Brunel
1975 Funny Lady Nicky Arnstein
1976 Ace Up My Sleeve Andre Ferren Also known as Crime and Passion
The Pink Panther Strikes Again Egyptian Assassin Cameo; uncredited
1979 Ashanti: Land of No Mercy Prince Hassan
Bloodline Ivo Palazzi
1980 S*H*E[95] Baron Cesare Magnasco Also known as S*H*E: Security Hazards Expert
The Baltimore Bullet The Deacon
Oh! Heavenly Dog Malcolm Bart
1981 Green Ice Meno Argenti
Inchon Indian officer Cameo; uncredited
1983 Ayoub
1984 Top Secret! Agent Cedric
1987 Grand Larceny Rashid Saud
1988 Rambo III Masoud
The Possessed Stepan Also known as Les Possédés
Les Pyramides bleues [fr][96] Alex Also known as The Novice
Keys to Freedom Jonathan
1989 Al-aragoz [citation needed] Mohamed Gad El Kareem Also known as The Puppeteer
1990 Mountains of the Moon Sultan Uncredited
Viaggio d'amore Rico
The Rainbow Thief Dima
1991 War in the Land of Egypt Also known as El Mowaten Masri and An Egyptian Citizen
Mayrig Hagop
1992 588 rue paradis Hagop Also known as Mother
Beyond Justice Emir Beni-Zair
Tengoku no Taizai Tsai Mang Hua
1993 Dehk we le'b we gad we hob[94] Also known as Laughter, Games, Seriousness and Love
1996 Lebanon...Imprisoned Splendour Himself Documentary
1997 Heaven Before I Die Kahlil Gibran
1998 Mysteries of Egypt Grandfather Documentary
1999 The 13th Warrior Melchisideck
2001 Censor
The Parole Officer Victor
2003 Monsieur Ibrahim Monsieur Ibrahim César Award for Best Actor
2004 Hidalgo Sheikh Riyadh
2006 Fuoco su di me Principe Nicola
One Night with the King Prince Memucan
2008 10,000 BC Narrator Voice
Hassan & Marcus Hassan / Morcus Also known as Hassan wa Morcus
2009 The Traveller Older Hassan Commonly known as Al Mosafer
J'ai oublié de te dire[97] Jaume Also known as I Forgot to Tell You
2013 A Castle in Italy Himself
Rock the Casbah Moulay Hassan
2015 1001 Inventions and the World of Ibn Al-Haytham Grandfather Film lead role[5] (final film role)
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1966 The Poppy Is Also a Flower Dr. Rad TV movie
1973 The Mysterious Island Captain Nemo TV miniseries; also known as L'Ile Mysterieuse
1980 Pleasure Palace Louis Lefevre TV movie
1984 The Far Pavilions Koda Dad TV miniseries, based on The Far Pavilions
1985 Vicious Circle Joseph Garcin TV play
Edge of the Wind[98] McCorquodale TV play by Don Webb, with John Mills and Lucy Gutteridge
1986 Peter the Great Prince Feodor Romodanovsky TV miniseries
Harem Sultan Hassan TV miniseries
Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna Czar Nicholas II TV miniseries
1991 Memories of Midnight Constantin Demiris TV movie
1992 Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris Marquis Hippolite TV movie
1995 Catherine the Great Razumovsky TV movie
1996 Gulliver's Travels The Sorcerer TV miniseries
1999 Cleopatra's Palace: In Search of a Legend Narrator Documentary
2001 Shaka Zulu: The Citadel The King TV movie
2002 Building the Great Pyramid Narrator Documentary
2005 Imperium: Saint Peter Saint Peter TV movie
2006 The Ten Commandments Jethro TV miniseries
2007 Hanan W Haneen Raouf Egyptian TV series, also known as Tenderness and Nostalgia
2008 The Last Templar Konstantine TV series

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Historically spelt Omar el-Sherief and[2][3] Omar Cherif.[4]

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Bibliography

  • The Eternal Male, with Marie-Thérèse Guinchard, transl. Martin Sokolinsky (Doubleday, 1977); orig. French, Éternel masculin (Paris: Stock, 1976)
  • Goren's Bridge Complete, Charles Goren with Omar Sharif (Doubleday, 1980) – one of several later editions of Goren
  • Omar Sharif's Life in Bridge, with Anne Segalen and Patrick Sussel, transl. and adapted by Terence Reese (Faber, 1983); orig. French, Ma vie au bridge (Paris: Fayard, 1982)
  • Omar Sharif Talks Bridge (2004)
  • Bridge Deluxe II Play with Omar Sharif (instruction manual, 1966)[1]

External links

  1. ^ "The glory and the loneliness of Omar Sharif, Egypt's top bridge player", bidoun.org

omar, sharif, other, people, named, disambiguation, arabic, عمر, الشريف, egyptian, arabic, pronunciation, ˈʕomɑɾ, eʃʃɪˈɾiːf, born, michel, yusef, dimitri, chalhoub, miˈʃel, dɪˈmitɾi, ʃælˈhuːb, april, 1932, july, 2015, egyptian, actor, generally, regarded, coun. For other people named Omar Sharif see Omar Sharif disambiguation Omar Sharif a Arabic عمر الشريف Egyptian Arabic pronunciation ˈʕomɑɾ eʃʃɪˈɾiːf born Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub 1 miˈʃel dɪˈmitɾi ʃaelˈhuːb 10 April 1932 10 July 2015 was an Egyptian actor generally regarded as one of his country s greatest male film stars 6 7 8 He began his career in his native country in the 1950s but is best known for his appearances in American British French and Italian productions His career encompassed over 100 films spanning 50 years and brought him many accolades including three Golden Globe Awards and a Cesar Award for Best Actor OMEOmar Sharifعمر شريفSharif in 2009BornMichel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub 1 1932 04 10 10 April 1932Alexandria Kingdom of EgyptDied10 July 2015 2015 07 10 aged 83 Cairo EgyptBurial placeAl Sayyida Nafisa CemeteryNationalityEgyptianOther namesOmar el Sherief 2 3 Omar Cherif 4 EducationVictoria College AlexandriaAlma materCairo UniversityOccupationActorYears active1954 2015 5 SpouseFaten Hamama m 1955 div 1974 wbr Children1RelativesOmar Sharif Jr grandson AwardsCesar Award 2004 Golden Globe Award 1962 1963 1965 HonoursOrder of MeritSharif played opposite Peter O Toole as Sherif Ali in the David Lean epic Lawrence of Arabia 1962 which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and portrayed the title role in Lean s Doctor Zhivago 1965 earning him the Golden Globe for Best Actor Motion Picture Drama He continued to play romantic leads in films like Funny Girl 1968 and The Tamarind Seed 1974 and historical figures like the eponymous characters in Genghis Khan 1965 and Che 1969 His acting career continued well into old age with a well received turn as a Muslim Turkish immigrant in the French film Monsieur Ibrahim 2003 He made his final film appearance in 2015 the year of his death Sharif spoke five languages 9 10 Arabic English French Italian and Spanish 11 He bridled at travel restrictions imposed by the government of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser leading to self exile in Europe He was a lifelong horse racing enthusiast and at one time ranked among the world s top contract bridge players He was the recipient of high civil honors from multiple countries including the Egyptian Order of Merit and the French Legion of Honour He was one of only 25 grantees of UNESCO s Sergei Eisenstein Medal in recognition of his significant contributions to world film and cultural diversity 12 Contents 1 Early life 2 Acting career 2 1 Egyptian movie star 2 2 Lawrence of Arabia 2 3 Doctor Zhivago 2 4 Funny Girl 2 5 Other films 2 6 1970s 2 7 1980s 2 8 1990s 2 9 Monsieur Ibrahim and later films 3 Contract bridge career 4 Personal life 4 1 Family and personal relationships 4 2 His position on the 2011 Egyptian revolution 4 3 Health problems and death 5 Awards 6 Honours 7 Filmography 8 See also 9 Notes 10 References 10 1 Bibliography 11 External linksEarly life EditSharif was born Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub Arabic ميشيل يوسف ديمتري شلهوب in Alexandria Kingdom of Egypt now Arab Republic of Egypt 13 14 to a Melkite Greek Catholic family of Lebanese descent 15 making him and his family members of the Antiochian Greek Christian minority also known as Rum 16 He adopted the surname Sharif meaning noble or nobleman in Arabic after converting to Islam in the 1950s 17 18 19 His father Yusef Chalhoub a precious woods merchant moved to the port city of Alexandria with his mother in the early 20th century from Zahle 20 21 Sharif was later born in Alexandria 21 His family moved to Cairo when he was four 22 His mother Claire Saada was a noted society hostess in whose house Egypt s King Farouk was a regular visitor prior to his deposition in 1952 23 In his youth Sharif studied at Victoria College Alexandria where he showed a talent for languages He later graduated from Cairo University with a degree in mathematics and physics 24 He worked for a while in his father s precious wood business before beginning his acting career in Egypt In 1955 he adopted the stage name Omar Sharif 24 25 He married fellow Egyptian actress Faten Hamama 26 27 It has been widely reported that Sharif studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London 23 24 but the academy told Al Jazeera that this was not true 28 Acting career EditEgyptian movie star Edit In 1954 Sharif began his acting career in Egypt with a role in Struggle in the Valley 1954 Seraa Fi el Wadi He was also in Shaytan el Sahra 1954 Devil of the Desert He quickly rose to stardom appearing in Our Beautiful Days 1955 The Lebanese Mission 1956 a French film Struggle in the Pier 1956 Sleepless 1957 La Anam Land of Peace 1957 Goha 1958 a Tunisian film that marked the debut of Claudia Cardinale Struggle on the Nile 1958 Sayyidat al Qasr 1958 A Beginning and an End 1960 A Rumor of Love 1960 the Anna Karenina adaptation The River of Love Nahr El Hob of Ezz El Dine Zulficar 1960 He and his wife co starred in several movies as romantic leads Sharif achieved success through other movies like Struggle on the Nile 1959 A Rumor of Love 1960 and There is a man in our House 1961 which made him a huge competitor to Salah Zulfikar Shoukry Sarhan and Rushdy Abaza the Egyptian cinema giants at the time 29 Lawrence of Arabia Edit Sharif s first English language role was that of the fictitious Sherif Ali in David Lean s historical epic Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 Sharif was given the role when Dilip Kumar turned it down Horst Buchholz proved unavailable and Maurice Ronet could not use the contact lenses necessary to hide his eyes 30 Casting Sharif in what is now considered one of the most demanding supporting roles in Hollywood history was both complex and risky as he was virtually unknown at the time outside Egypt However as historian Steven Charles Caton notes Lean insisted on using ethnic actors when possible to make the film authentic 31 56 Sharif would later use his ambiguous ethnicity in other films I spoke French Greek Italian Spanish and even Arabic he said 32 As Sharif noted his accent enabled him to play the role of a foreigner without anyone knowing exactly where I came from which he stated proved highly successful throughout his career 31 56 To secure the role Sharif had to sign a seven film contract with Columbia at 50 000 a film 33 Lawrence was a box office and critical sensation Sharif s performance earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor Motion Picture as well as a shared Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year Actor 34 35 Sharif in 1963 Sharif went on to star in another Hollywood film Anthony Mann s The Fall of the Roman Empire 1964 where he played the support role of Sohaemus of Armenia Sharif was third billed in Columbia s Behold a Pale Horse 1964 playing a priest in the Spanish Civil War alongside Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn Director Fred Zinnemann said he chose Sharif partly on the suggestion of David Lean He said he was an absolutely marvellous actor If you possibly can take a look at him 36 Film historian Richard Schickel wrote that Sharif gave a truly wonderful performance especially noteworthy because of his totally different roles in Lawrence of Arabia It is hard to believe that the priest and the sheik are played by the same man 37 The film like Fall of the Roman Empire was a commercial disappointment 38 Sharif was one of many stars in MGM s The Yellow Rolls Royce 1964 playing a Yugoslav wartime patriot the movie was a hit Sharif had his first lead role in a Hollywood movie when he was cast in the title part of Genghis Khan 1965 Produced by Irving Allen and directed by Henry Levin for Columbia the 4 5 million epic was a box office disappointment He had a supporting role in a French Marco Polo biopic Marco the Magnificent 1965 starring Buchholz and Quinn Doctor Zhivago Edit With Geraldine Chaplin in Doctor Zhivago 1965 While making Genghis Khan Sharif heard that Lean was making Doctor Zhivago 1965 an adaptation of Boris Pasternak s 1957 novel 39 Sharif was a fan of the novel and lobbied for one of the supporting roles but Lean decided instead to cast him in the lead as Yuri Zhivago a poet and physician 40 Film historian Constantine Santas explained that Lean intended the film to be a poetic portrayal of the period with large vistas of landscapes combined with a powerful score by Maurice Jarre He noted that Sharif s role is passive his eyes reflecting reality which then become the mirror of reality we ourselves see 41 In a commentary on the DVD 2001 edition Sharif described Lean s style of directing as similar to a general commanding an army 41 xxviii The film was a huge hit For his performance Sharif was named best actor in a motion picture drama 42 Doctor Zhivago remains one of the top ten highest grossing films of all time after adjusting for inflation 43 Sharif followed it with a cameo in The Poppy Is Also a Flower 1966 He O Toole and Lawrence producer Sam Spiegel were reunited in The Night of the Generals 1967 His fourth movie for Columbia Sharif played a German officer in World War II The film was not a success nor was the Italian French fairytale More Than a Miracle 1967 despite featuring Sophia Loren as co star Funny Girl Edit Sharif was also praised for his portrayal of Nicky Arnstein in Funny Girl 1968 for Columbia pictures He portrayed the husband of Fanny Brice played by Barbra Streisand in her first film role His decision to work alongside Streisand angered Egypt s government because she was a vocal supporter of the State of Israel 44 and the country condemned the film It was also immediately banned in numerous Arab nations 45 48 Streisand herself jokingly responded You think Cairo was upset You should ve seen the letter I got from my Aunt Rose 46 Sharif and Streisand became romantically involved during the filming 45 18 He admitted later that he did not find Streisand attractive at first but her appeal soon overwhelmed him About a week from the moment I met her he recalled I was madly in love with her I thought she was the most gorgeous girl I d ever seen in my life I found her physically beautiful and I started lusting after this woman 45 48 47 Other films Edit Sharif co starred with Catherine Deneuve in Mayerling 1968 and the following year was reunited with Gregory Peck in the western Mackenna s Gold 1969 an unsuccessful attempt to repeat the success of The Guns of Navarone 1961 At 20th Century Fox he played Che Guevara in Che which flopped at the box office The Appointment 1969 teamed Sharif with Anouk Aimee and director Sidney Lumet but was not a hit James Clavell s The Last Valley 1971 was a huge flop despite co starring Michael Caine 48 The Horsemen 1971 directed by John Frankenheimer and the last movie under his Columbia contract also performed poorly at the box office 49 Sharif later said What killed my career was appearing in a succession of films you wouldn t turn down They were by good directors but they were bad films He specifically referenced Behold a Pale Horse The Appointment and The Horsemen 33 The Burglars 1971 a French crime film with Jean Paul Belmondo and Dyan Cannon was a huge hit in France but little seen in the English speaking world 50 1970s Edit Sharif played Captain Nemo for European TV in an adaptation of Mysterious Island 1973 Sharif appeared in a romantic thriller alongside Julie Andrews for Blake Edwards The Tamarind Seed 1974 it did well at the box office and the critics gave good reviews He supported Richard Harris and David Hemmings in a thriller Juggernaut 1974 Sharif reprised the role of Nick Arnstein in the sequel to Funny Girl Funny Lady in 1975 51 He starred in a West German thriller Crime and Passion 1976 and had a cameo in Edwards The Pink Panther Strikes Again 1976 Sharif had a small role in Ashanti 1979 starring Caine and a bigger one in Bloodline 1979 I lost money on gambling buying horses things like that he later said So I made those movies which I knew were rubbish I d call my agent and tell him to accept any part just to bail myself out 33 1980s Edit Sharif had a lead part in a spy spoof S H E 1980 and was second billed after James Coburn in The Baltimore Bullet 1980 He had supporting parts in a Chevy Chase comedy Oh Heavenly Dog 1981 and a Ryan O Neal thriller Green Ice 1981 which was made in the 1970s and a small role in the comedy Top Secret 1984 He appeared on stage in a production of The Sleeping Prince in 1983 saying he appeared in the bad films of great directors 52 Sharif worked steadily in television appearing in Pleasure Palace 1981 Peter the Great 1986 and Anastasia The Mystery of Anna 1986 as Nicholas II of Russia He had supporting parts in Grand Larceny 1987 and The Possessed 1988 He also appeared in the movie Rambo III 1988 as Masoud His first notable credit in a while was Mountains of the Moon 1990 but Sharif s part was only small He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1989 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel outside his Paris apartment citation needed 1990s Edit Sharif was reunited with O Toole a third time in The Rainbow Thief 1990 He went to Egypt for War in the Land of Egypt 1991 and France for Mayrig 1991 with Claudia Cardinale an autobiographical tale for Henri Verneuil The latter was popular enough for a sequel 588 rue paradis 1992 Sharif could also be seen in Memories of Midnight 1991 Beyond Justice 1992 Catherine the Great as Alexei Razumovsky Gulliver s Travels 1996 Heaven Before I Die 1997 and Mysteries of Egypt 1998 In 1996 Sharif starred in the documentary Lebanon Imprisoned Splendour The documentary was written and directed by Lebanese Australian director Daizy Gedeon who approached Sharif for the project because she wanted someone remarkable to help her tell the true story of Lebanon a country which at the time was still shrouded in the fog of its Civil War 53 In the film Sharif shares personal stories of his upbringing in a Lebanese family and recites the poetry of famous Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran He had his first decent role in a big Hollywood film in a long time with The 13th Warrior 1999 The outcome of the film s production disappointed Sharif so much that he temporarily retired from film acting not taking a role in another major film until 2003 s Monsieur Ibrahim I said to myself Let us stop this nonsense these meal tickets that we do because it pays well I thought Unless I find a stupendous film that I love and that makes me want to leave home to do I will stop Bad pictures are very humiliating I was really sick It is terrifying to have to do the dialogue from bad scripts to face a director who does not know what he is doing in a film so bad that it is not even worth exploring 54 Monsieur Ibrahim and later films Edit Sharif at the Venice Film Festival in 2009 Sharif did have a small role in The Parole Officer 2001 In 2003 he said I went 25 years without making a good film 33 In 2003 Sharif received acclaim for his leading role in Monsieur Ibrahim a French language film adaptation of the novel Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran as a Muslim Turkish merchant who becomes a father figure for a Jewish boy 55 56 For this performance Sharif received the Cesar Award for Best Actor 57 Sharif said of the film Omar Sharif receiving the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival 2003 It has nice big chunks of dialogue which is what I like to do rather than riding horses or camels I d turned down everything and stopped working for four years I said I m going to stop doing that rubbish and keep some dignity But when I read the script for Monsieur Ibrahim I phoned the producers immediately I said Hang on I m coming wait for me My problem is finding parts When you re young and successful they write or adapt parts for you But when you re an old chap let s be frank you don t sell tickets anymore If they need an old Englishman American or Italian there are plenty of actors around So what s open for me Old Arabs And that s what I play in this film 33 Sharif s later film roles included performances in Hidalgo 2004 Imperium Saint Peter 2005 playing the title role for Italian television One Night with the King 2005 again with O Toole and 10 000 BC 2008 as the narrator Sharif was seen in The Ten Commandments 2006 Also in 2006 Sharif played the artist Hans Canon in The Crown Prince a film about Rudolf the 19th century crown prince of the Austro Hungarian Empire In Egypt he starred in Hassan and Marcus 2008 with Adel Emam and was in The Traveller 2009 He had support roles in The Last Templar 2009 and Rock the Casbah 2013 58 Sharif s final role was as lead actor in the short science education film 1001 Inventions and the World of Ibn Al Haytham which was directed by Ahmed Salim and was released as part of the United Nations International Year of Light campaign operated by UNESCO 59 60 Contract bridge career Edit Sharif playing contract bridge in the Netherlands 1967 Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif playing bridge on the set of MacKenna s Gold 1969 Sharif said bridge was his personal passion and at one time was ranked among the world s top 50 contract bridge players At the 1964 World Bridge Olympiad he represented the United Arab Republic bridge squad and in 1968 he was playing captain of the Egyptian team in the Olympiad 61 In 1967 he formed the Omar Sharif Bridge Circus to showcase bridge to the world and invited professional players including members of the Italian Blue team which won 16 World championship titles to tour and promote the game via exhibition matches including one watched by the Shah of Iran 62 Touring through Europe the Circus attracted thousands of spectators who watched the matches via Bridge O Rama a new technology and predecessor to the modern day VuGraph that displayed bidding and cardplay on television monitors Players included Benito Garozzo considered by many as the greatest bridge player of all time plus his Italian compatriots Pietro Forquet and Giorgio Belladonna and Frenchman Claude Delmouly In 1970 Sharif and the circus went to London s famous Piccadilly Hotel for an 80 rubber match against British experts Jeremy Flint and Jonathan Cansino The stakes were 1 per point huge stakes even by today s standards The event was to present bridge as a rich exciting spectacle and to break through into television to bring the game within the reach of millions The Circus ultimately won the match by 5 470 points but Sharif still incurred a net loss after paying all related expenses The Circus under the management of Mike Ledeen toured Canada and the U S in 1970 71 Sharif s team joined with the Dallas Aces for a seven city tour of Chicago Winnipeg Los Angeles Minneapolis St Paul Dallas Detroit and Philadelphia In each city a team of local experts participated in the exhibition In 1975 sponsored by the Lancia division of Fiat Sharif and members of the Italian Blue Team faced off in four challenge matches against American teams Sharif s team won in Chicago but was defeated in New York Los Angeles and Miami The Omar Sharif World Individual Championship held in 1990 offered the largest total purse 200 000 in the history of bridge 63 64 In 1997 he was a member of the Committee of Honour for the Bermuda Bowl on the first time it was held in an Arab country Tunisia He competed in a transnational team with French German and Lebanese players and finished 11th In 1999 he played in a French senior team at the European Championships in Malta finishing second In 2000 at Maastricht he joined Egypt s senior team finishing in ninth place 65 With Charles Goren and later Tannah Hirsch Sharif contributed to a syndicated newspaper bridge column for the Chicago Tribune 66 He was also both author and co author of several books on bridge and licensed his name to a bridge video game Omar Sharif Bridge initially released in an MS DOS version and Amiga version in 1992 and is still sold in Windows and mobile platform versions 67 He was also the hand analyst commentator for the Epson worldwide bridge contests Sharif was a regular in casinos in France 68 By 2000 Sharif had stopped playing bridge entirely Having once proudly declared the game his passion he now considered it an addiction I didn t want to be a slave to any passion anymore I gave up card playing altogether even bridge and gambling Sharif however continued to license his name to bridge software games and co authored a book with bridge writer David Bird Omar Sharif Talks Bridge Written in 2004 it includes some of his most famous deals and bridge stories 69 Personal life EditFamily and personal relationships Edit A scene from the movie Land of Peace 1957 Sharif lived in Egypt from his birth until he moved to Europe in 1965 70 He recounted that in 1932 his father wasn t a wealthy man but earned quite a bit of money 71 Before the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 King Farouk frequented Sharif s family home and became a friend and card game partner of Sharif s mother His mother was an elegant and charming hostess who was all too delighted with the association because it gave her the privilege of consorting only with the elite of Egyptian society Sharif also recounted that his father s timber business was very successful during that time in ways that Sharif describes as dishonest or immoral 72 By contrast after 1952 Sharif stated that wealth changed hands in Egypt under Nasser s nationalisation policies 73 and his father s business took a beating In 1954 Sharif starred in the film Struggle in the Valley with Faten Hamama who shared a kiss with him although she had previously refused to kiss on screen 74 The two fell in love Sharif converted to Islam changed his name and married her 75 They had one son Tarek Sharif born in 1957 in Egypt who appeared in Doctor Zhivago as Yuri at the age of eight The couple separated in 1966 and their marriage ended in divorce in 1974 76 Sharif never remarried he stated that after his divorce he never fell in love with another woman again 76 Before their divorce Sharif dated actresses Pat Sheehan and Dodie Marshall 77 The Nasser government imposed travel restrictions in the form of exit visas so Sharif s travel to take part in international films was sometimes impeded something he found to be intolerable 76 These restrictions influenced Sharif s decision to remain in Europe between his film shoots a decision that cost him his marriage though the couple remained friends It was a major crossroad in Sharif s life and changed him from an established family man to a committed bachelor living in European hotels When commenting about his fame and life in Hollywood Sharif said It gave me glory but it gave me loneliness also And a lot of missing my own land my own people and my own country 76 When Sharif s affair with Streisand was made public in the Egyptian press his Egyptian citizenship was almost withdrawn by the Egyptian government because of Streisand being Jewish 78 and a vocal supporter of Israel which was then in a state of war with Egypt 79 Sharif became friends with Peter O Toole during the making of Lawrence of Arabia They appeared in several other films together and remained close friends He was also good friends with Egyptologist Zahi Hawass Actor and friend Tom Courtenay revealed in an interview for the 19 July 2008 edition of BBC Radio s Test Match Special that Sharif supported Hull City Association Football Club and in the 1970s he would telephone their automated scoreline from his home in Paris for score updates Sharif was given an honorary degree by the University of Hull in 2010 and he used the occasion to meet Hull City football player Ken Wagstaff 80 Sharif also had an interest in horse racing spanning more than 50 years He was often seen at French racecourses with Deauville La Touques Racecourse being his favourite Sharif s horses won a number of important races and he had his best successes with Don Bosco 81 who won the Prix Gontaut Biron Prix Perth and Prix du Muguet 82 He also wrote for a French horse racing magazine 83 In later life Sharif lived mostly in Cairo with his family and his last partner Andrea Ferreol 84 76 In addition to his son Tarek Sharif he had two grandsons Omar Sharif Jr born 1983 in Montreal and Karim 76 Omar Sharif Jr is also an actor 85 Sharif was also one of the ambassadors of Egypt s bid for the 2010 FIFA World Cup which lost out to South Africa 86 His position on the 2011 Egyptian revolution Edit Sharif in April 2015 three months prior to his death Sharif was very supportive of the 2011 Youth revolution in his home country and asked for the resignation of Hosni Mubarak stating Given that the entire Egyptian people don t want him and he s been in power for 30 years that s enough 87 Health problems and death Edit Sharif had a triple heart bypass operation in 1992 and suffered a mild heart attack in 1994 Until his bypass Sharif smoked 25 cigarettes a day He quit smoking after the operation In May 2015 it was reported that Sharif was suffering from Alzheimer s disease 88 His son Tarek Sharif who portrayed his father s character as a child in Doctor Zhivago said that his father was becoming confused when remembering some of the biggest films of his career he would mix up the names of his best known films Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia often forgetting where they were filmed On 10 July 2015 less than six months after his former wife s death at the same age Sharif died after suffering a heart attack at a hospital in Cairo 89 On 12 July 2015 Sharif s funeral was held at the Grand Mosque of Mushir Tantawi in eastern Cairo The funeral was attended by a group of Sharif s relatives friends and Egyptian actors his coffin draped in the Egyptian flag and a black shroud His coffin was later taken to the El Sayeda Nafisa cemetery in southern Cairo where he was buried 90 Awards EditAt the 35th Academy Awards Sharif was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia but lost to Ed Begley He won two Golden Globe awards in the same year for his role In 1966 he won a third Golden Globe award for the titular role in the film Doctor Zhivago In November 2005 Sharif was awarded the inaugural 91 Sergei Eisenstein Medal by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO in recognition of his significant contributions to world film and cultural diversity The medal which is awarded very infrequently is named after Russian director Sergei Eisenstein Only 25 have been struck as determined by the agreement between UNESCO Russia s Mosfilm and the Vivat Foundation 92 Honours Edit Egypt Grand Cross of the Order of Merit Egypt France Knight of the Legion of Honour Morocco Commander of the Order of Ouissam AlaouiteFilmography EditFilm Year Title Role Notes1954 Shaytan al Sahra 93 Essam Also known as Devil of the SaharaSira Fi al Wadi Ahmed Also known as The Blazing Sun Struggle in the Valley and Fight in the Valley1955 Ayyamna al Holwa Ahmed Also known as Our Best Days1956 La Chatelaine du Liban Mokrir Also known as The Lebanese Mission credited as Omar CherifSira Fi al Mina Ragab Also known as A Fight Within the Port1957 La Anam Aziz Also known as Sleepless and No TomorrowArd al Salam Ahmed Also known as Land of Peace1958 Goha Goha Credited as Omar CherifShatie el asrar Mamdoh Also known as Beach of SecretsGhaltet habibi Salah Also known as My Lover s Fault1959 Siraa fil Nil 94 Muhassab Also known as Struggle on the NileSayyidat al Qasr Adel Also known as Lady of the PalaceMin ajal emraa Shokri Also known as For a WomanMaweed maa maghoul Madgi Also known as An Appointment with the UnknownFadiha fil Zamalek Ahmed Also known as Scandel in Zamalek1960 Nahna el talamiza Adel Also known as We Are the StudentsLawet el hub Hasan Also known as Love Sickness1961 Gharam el assiad Essam Murad Also known as Masters LoveBidaya wa Nihaya Hassanien Also known as A Beginning and an EndEsha a hob Hussein Also known as A Rumor of LoveNahr al Hob Khalid Also known as The River of LoveHobi al Wahid Captain Adel Also known as My Only LoveFi Baytouna Ragoul 94 Ibrahim Also known as في بيتنا رجل and A Man in our House1962 Lawrence of Arabia Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor Motion PictureGolden Globe Award for New Star of the Year ActorNominated Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1964 The Fall of the Roman Empire SohamusBehold a Pale Horse FranciscoThe Yellow Rolls Royce Davich1965 Genghis Khan Genghis KhanMarco the Magnificent Sheik Alla Hou The Desert Wind Doctor Zhivago Dr Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture DramaEl mamalik Ahmed1967 The Night of the Generals Major GrauMore Than a Miracle Prince Rodrigo Fernandez1968 Funny Girl Nicky ArnsteinMayerling Archduke Rudolf1969 Mackenna s Gold John ColoradoThe Appointment Frenderico FendiChe Che GuevaraTrois hommes sur un cheval Un turfiste Uncredited1971 The Last Valley VogelThe Horsemen UrazThe Burglars Abel Zacharia Simultaneously shot in French as Le Casse with the same cast1972 Le Droit d aimer Pierre1973 The Mysterious Island Captain Nemo1974 The Tamarind Seed Feodor SverdlovJuggernaut Captain Alex Brunel1975 Funny Lady Nicky Arnstein1976 Ace Up My Sleeve Andre Ferren Also known as Crime and PassionThe Pink Panther Strikes Again Egyptian Assassin Cameo uncredited1979 Ashanti Land of No Mercy Prince HassanBloodline Ivo Palazzi1980 S H E 95 Baron Cesare Magnasco Also known as S H E Security Hazards ExpertThe Baltimore Bullet The DeaconOh Heavenly Dog Malcolm Bart1981 Green Ice Meno ArgentiInchon Indian officer Cameo uncredited1983 Ayoub1984 Top Secret Agent Cedric1987 Grand Larceny Rashid Saud1988 Rambo III MasoudThe Possessed Stepan Also known as Les PossedesLes Pyramides bleues fr 96 Alex Also known as The NoviceKeys to Freedom Jonathan1989 Al aragoz citation needed Mohamed Gad El Kareem Also known as The Puppeteer1990 Mountains of the Moon Sultan UncreditedViaggio d amore RicoThe Rainbow Thief Dima1991 War in the Land of Egypt Also known as El Mowaten Masri and An Egyptian CitizenMayrig Hagop1992 588 rue paradis Hagop Also known as MotherBeyond Justice Emir Beni ZairTengoku no Taizai Tsai Mang Hua1993 Dehk we le b we gad we hob 94 Also known as Laughter Games Seriousness and Love1996 Lebanon Imprisoned Splendour Himself Documentary1997 Heaven Before I Die Kahlil Gibran1998 Mysteries of Egypt Grandfather Documentary1999 The 13th Warrior Melchisideck2001 CensorThe Parole Officer Victor2003 Monsieur Ibrahim Monsieur Ibrahim Cesar Award for Best Actor2004 Hidalgo Sheikh Riyadh2006 Fuoco su di me Principe NicolaOne Night with the King Prince Memucan2008 10 000 BC Narrator VoiceHassan amp Marcus Hassan Morcus Also known as Hassan wa Morcus2009 The Traveller Older Hassan Commonly known as Al MosaferJ ai oublie de te dire 97 Jaume Also known as I Forgot to Tell You2013 A Castle in Italy HimselfRock the Casbah Moulay Hassan2015 1001 Inventions and the World of Ibn Al Haytham Grandfather Film lead role 5 final film role Television Year Title Role Notes1966 The Poppy Is Also a Flower Dr Rad TV movie1973 The Mysterious Island Captain Nemo TV miniseries also known as L Ile Mysterieuse1980 Pleasure Palace Louis Lefevre TV movie1984 The Far Pavilions Koda Dad TV miniseries based on The Far Pavilions1985 Vicious Circle Joseph Garcin TV playEdge of the Wind 98 McCorquodale TV play by Don Webb with John Mills and Lucy Gutteridge1986 Peter the Great Prince Feodor Romodanovsky TV miniseriesHarem Sultan Hassan TV miniseriesAnastasia The Mystery of Anna Czar Nicholas II TV miniseries1991 Memories of Midnight Constantin Demiris TV movie1992 Mrs Arris Goes to Paris Marquis Hippolite TV movie1995 Catherine the Great Razumovsky TV movie1996 Gulliver s Travels The Sorcerer TV miniseries1999 Cleopatra s Palace In Search of a Legend Narrator Documentary2001 Shaka Zulu The Citadel The King TV movie2002 Building the Great Pyramid Narrator Documentary2005 Imperium Saint Peter Saint Peter TV movie2006 The Ten Commandments Jethro TV miniseries2007 Hanan W Haneen Raouf Egyptian TV series also known as Tenderness and Nostalgia2008 The Last Templar Konstantine TV seriesSee also EditCinema of the United States Cinema of Egypt David Lean Terence Young Ezz El Dine Zulficar Salah Abu SeifNotes Edit Historically spelt Omar el Sheriefand 2 3 Omar Cherif 4 References Edit a b Notice d autorite personne Bibliotheque nationale de France site retrieved August 17 2015 dead link a b Berkvist Robert 10 July 2015 Omar Sharif 83 a Star in Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago Dies The New York Times Retrieved 10 July 2015 a b Title unknown The Arab Review 27 30 56 1962 a b Sadoul Georges 1972 Morris Peter ed Dictionary of Films Berkeley and Los Angeles University of California Press p 129 ISBN 9780520021525 Retrieved 10 July 2015 via Internet Archive omar cherif wikipedia a b Omar Sharif Star of Lawrence of Arabia Dies of Heart Attack at 83 NBC com Retrieved 10 July 2015 Legendary Egyptian actor Omar Sharif dies at 83 www aljazeera com Retrieved 28 October 2021 Remembering Omar Sharif s Egyptian movie career before Hollywood came along The World from PRX Retrieved 28 October 2021 Berkvist Robert 10 July 2015 Omar Sharif 83 a Star in Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago Dies The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 28 October 2021 Omar Sharif Suave Star of Doctor Zhivago Dies at 83 hollywoodreporter com The Hollywood Reporter 10 July 2015 Archived from the original on 2 October 2021 Retrieved 2 October 2021 Omar Sharif knave of hearts The Guardian 22 March 2004 Archived from the original on 2 October 2021 Retrieved 2 October 2021 Omar Sharif facts what you need to know about the actor honoured by Google standard co uk Evening Standard 10 April 2018 Archived from the original on 2 October 2021 Retrieved 2 October 2021 UNESCO Media Services Retrieved 18 January 2014 Curtis Edward E 2010 Encyclopedia of Muslim American History Facts on File p 198 ISBN 978 0816075751 Omar Sharif It is a great film but I m not very good in it The Independent Gates Henry Louis 2012 Dictionary of African biography Volumes 1 Oxford University Press pp 355 357 ISBN 9780195382075 Rastegar Kamra 10 July 2015 Omar Sharif Alluringly cosmopolitan unapologetically Arab Al Jazeera America Retrieved 1 December 2016 Omar Sharif changed his name and converted to Islam inorder to be able to marry his beloved Faten Hamama 9 December 2020 Khakpour Porochista 2013 In the House of Desire Honey Marble and Dream In Anita Amirrezvani Persis Karim eds Tremors New Fiction by Iranian American Writers University of Arkansas Press p 116 ISBN 9781557289957 Adel Iskander Hakem Rustom eds 2010 Edward Said A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation Berkeley and Los Angeles University of California Press ISBN 9780520245464 Retrieved 10 July 2015 via Google Books Peek into Omar Sharif s life Egypt Today 10 July 2017 a b Marlowe Lara 8 May 2014 Omar Sharif from desert prince to alone in Paris The Irish Times Retrieved 12 July 2015 Matthew Bannister 12 July 2015 Omar Sharif Stanley Steve Moore Jules Wright Yevgeny Primakov Ernest Tomlinson Last words BBC a b Obituary Omar Sharif BBC News 10 July 2015 Retrieved 10 July 2015 a b c Omar Sharif from desert prince to alone in Paris The Irish Times 8 May 2014 Retrieved 10 July 2015 El Mundo Magazine Entrevista Omar Sharif by Eugenia Yague 2002 retrieved 12 July 2015 Sharif Omar 1977 The Eternal Male My Own Story Doubleday New York 1st Ed p 71 Omar Sharif Retrieved 10 July 2015 Omar Sharif Why Google honours him today www aljazeera com Retrieved 22 April 2018 Faten Hamama actress obituary The Daily Telegraph 18 January 2015 Archived from the original on 11 January 2022 Retrieved 10 July 2015 Omar Sharif star of Lawrence of Arabia has Alzheimer s agent The Guardian 25 May 2015 Retrieved 10 July 2015 a b Caton Steven Charles Lawrence of Arabia A Film s Anthropology University of California Press 1999 Stuart Heritage 15 November 2012 Omar Sharif on Lawrence of Arabia I was the only actor David Lean liked the Guardian Retrieved 13 July 2015 a b c d e Gritten D 2 November 2003 Legends of Hollywood A long time in the desert Omar Sharif has made many trashy idiotic films but he hopes monsieur ibrahim will restore his luster Los Angeles Times ProQuest 421848895 The 35th Academy Awards AMPAS Retrieved 10 July 2015 Omar Sharif HFPA Archived from the original on 11 July 2015 Retrieved 10 July 2015 Zinnemann Fred Fred Zinnemann Interviews Univ Press of Mississippi 2005 p 6 Schickel Richard Life magazine August 21 1964 p 12 Omar Sharif plays priest in behold a pale horse Los Angeles Times 28 August 1964 ProQuest 154982268 Broadway Review Doctor Zhivago Variety 21 April 2015 Retrieved 10 July 2015 Blair I 21 March 1989 Sublime Sharif Lawrence made him a star but it s not his favorite role Chicago Tribune ProQuest 282740473 a b Santas Constantine The Epic Films of David Lean Scarecrow Press 2012 p 59 Doctor 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Stage Los Angeles Times p i2 The Omar Sharif Factor Daizy Gedeon 16 April 2018 Retrieved 7 April 2022 Movie amp TV News IMDb com WENN 20 November 2003 Monsieur Ibrahim Movie Review 2003 Roger Ebert 5 March 2004 Retrieved 10 July 2015 Omar Sharif It is a great film but I m not very good in it The Independent 18 November 2012 Retrieved 10 July 2015 Omar Sharif Les Cesar Academie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema Archived from the original on 11 July 2015 Retrieved 10 July 2015 Lee Benjamin 10 July 2015 Omar Sharif dies at the age of 83 The Guardian ISSN 0261 3077 Retrieved 14 November 2017 Omar Sharif Suave Star of Doctor Zhivago Dies at 83 Hollywood Reporter 10 July 2015 Retrieved 23 July 2015 Ibn Al Haytham to be a focus of the International Year of Light through partnering with 1001 Inventions UNESCO Retrieved 23 July 2015 Omar Sharif 1932 2015 worldbridge org Omar Sharif international heartthrob of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago dies at 83 Adam Bernstein 10 July 2015 Washington 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Andrea Ferreol fiere d avoir ose France Info archive org web 20110427164858 http www vancouversun com entertainment movie guide When 2BKirk 2BOmar 2BHollywood 2Bstory 4370595 story html Home Vancouver Sun Archived from the original on 27 April 2011 Retrieved 25 May 2017 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a Check archive url value help CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link World Cup 2010 South Africa wins bidding contest 15 May 2004 Egypt protests Actor Omar Shariff worries about his country but wants President Mubarak to resign NY Daily News January 2011 Omar Sharif star of Lawrence of Arabia has Alzheimer s agent the Guardian Associated Press 25 May 2015 Retrieved 13 July 2015 Film star Omar Sharif dies aged 83 BBC News 10 July 2015 Retrieved 10 July 2015 Loveluck Louisa 12 July 2015 Hollywood icon Omar Sharif draped in the Egyptian flag and laid to rest in Cairo The Telegraph Archived from the original on 11 January 2022 UNESCO Media Services 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French Eternel masculin Paris Stock 1976 Goren s Bridge Complete Charles Goren with Omar Sharif Doubleday 1980 one of several later editions of Goren Omar Sharif s Life in Bridge with Anne Segalen and Patrick Sussel transl and adapted by Terence Reese Faber 1983 orig French Ma vie au bridge Paris Fayard 1982 Omar Sharif Talks Bridge 2004 Bridge Deluxe II Play with Omar Sharif instruction manual 1966 1 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Omar Sharif Omar Sharif at IMDb Omar Sharif at elcinema com Arabic International record for Omar Sharif World Bridge Federation Omar Sharif at Library of Congress with 16 library catalogue records Omar Sharif Aveleyman Omar Sharif at Find a Grave The glory and the loneliness of Omar Sharif Egypt s top bridge player bidoun org Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Omar Sharif amp oldid 1148398143, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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