Omar Sharif
Age: 83 | From: Alexandria, Egypt
Person Details
Birthday: 1932-04-10 06:10:20
Death: 2015-07-10 06:10:20
Aliases: Омар Шариф , Michel Dimitri Chalhoub , عمر الشريف
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Alexandria, Egypt
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 91
TV Involvements: 20
Most Famous Work
Biography
Omar Sharif, the Franco-Arabic actor best known for playing Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and the title role in Doctor Zhivago (1965), was born Michel Demitri Shalhoub on April 10, 1932 in Alexandria, Egypt to Joseph Shalhoub, a lumber merchant, and his wife, Claire. Of Lebanese and Syrian extraction, the young Michel was raised a Roman Catholic. He was educated at Victoria College in Alexandria and took a degree in mathematics and physics from Cairo University with a major. Afterward graduating from university, he entered the family lumber business. Before making his English-language film debut with "Lawrence of Arabia", for which he earned him a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination and international fame, Sharif became a star in Egyptian cinema. His first movie was the Egyptian film Siraa Fil-Wadi (1954) ("The Blazing Sun") in 1953, opposite the renowned Egyptian actress Faten Hamama whom he married in 1955. He converted to Islam to marry Hamama and took the name Omar al-Sharif. The couple had one child (Tarek Sharif, who was born in 1957 and portrayed the young Zhivago in the eponymous picture) and divorced in 1974. Sharif never remarried. Beginning in the 1960s, Sharif earned a reputation as one of the world's best known contract bridge players. In the 1970s and '80s, he co-wrote a syndicated newspaper bridge column for the Chicago Tribune. Sharif also wrote several books on bridge and has licensed his name to a bridge computer game, "Omar Sharif Bridge", which has been marketed since 1992. Sharif told the press in 2006 that he no longer played bridge, explaining, "I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work. I had too many passions, bridge, horses, gambling. I want to live a different kind of life, be with my family more because I didn't give them enough time." As an actor, Sharif had made a comeback in 2003 playing the title role of an elderly Muslim shopkeeper in the French film Monsieur Ibrahim (2003). For his performance, he won the Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival and the Best Actor César, France's equivalent of the Oscar, from the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma.
Most Famous Work
Le grand échiquier
(1972) Self
Lawrence of Arabia
(1962) Sherif Ali
30 millions d'amis
(1976) Self
Doctor Zhivago
(1965) Dr. Yuri Zhivago
Numéro un
(1975) Self - Host
Hidalgo
(2004) Sheikh Riyadh
The 13th Warrior
(1999) Melchisidek
The Fall of the Roman Empire
(1964) SohamusActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Self - Actor (archive footage) | |
| 2020 | Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2015 | Grandfather | |
| 2013 | Omar Sharif | |
| Moulay Hassan | ||
| Self | ||
| 2011 | Intervenant | |
| 2010 | Jaume | |
| 2009 | Self | |
| Hassan | ||
| Self | ||
| Konstantine | ||
| 2008 | N/A | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2007 | Self - Presenter | |
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| 2006 | Prince Memucan | |
| Hans Canon | ||
| Hans Canon | ||
| Jethro | ||
| Principe Nicola | ||
| 2005 | Pietro | |
| San Pietro | ||
| The King | ||
| 2004 | Himself | |
| Sheikh Riyadh | ||
| Self | ||
| 2003 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Monsieur Ibrahim | ||
| 2002 | Nakht (voice) | |
| 2001 | Victor | |
| 2000 | N/A | |
| Self | ||
| 1999 | Melchisidek | |
| Narrator | ||
| 1998 | Self | |
| Grandfather | ||
| 1997 | Khalil Gibran | |
| 1996 | Narrator | |
| Razumovsky | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Sorcerer | ||
| 1995 | Self | |
| 1994 | Safar Khan | |
| Dima | ||
| 1993 | N/A | |
| 1992 | Marquis Hippolite | |
| Emir Beni-Zair | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| Hagop | ||
| 1991 | Hagop | |
| Constantin Demiris | ||
| Emir Beni-Zair | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1990 | Rico | |
| Arab Chief in Cairo (uncredited) | ||
| 1989 | محمد جاد الكريم | |
| 1988 | Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky | |
| Alex | ||
| Jonathan | ||
| 1987 | Rashid Saud | |
| 1986 | Czar Nicholas II | |
| Sultan Hassan | ||
| Sultan Hassan | ||
| Prince Feodor Romodanovsky | ||
| 1985 | N/A | |
| Garcin | ||
| Self | ||
| 1984 | Agent Cedric | |
| Koda Dad | ||
| 1983 | Alex Joski | |
| ayoub | ||
| 1982 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| 1981 | Indian Brigadier | |
| Meno Argenti | ||
| 1980 | Louie Lefevre | |
| Bart | ||
| The Deacon | ||
| Baron Cesare Magnasco | ||
| 1979 | Ivo Palazzi | |
| Prince Hassan | ||
| 1976 | Egyptian Assassin (uncredited) | |
| Andre Ferren | ||
| Self | ||
| 1975 | Self - Host | |
| Self | ||
| Nick Arnstein | ||
| 1974 | Captain Alex Brunel | |
| Feodor Sverdlov | ||
| 1973 | Captain Nemo | |
| Self | ||
| Captain Nemo | ||
| 1972 | Pierre | |
| Self | ||
| 1971 | Self | |
| Abel Zacharia | ||
| Uraz | ||
| Self | ||
| Vogel | ||
| Self | ||
| 1969 | Che Guevara | |
| Federico Fendi | ||
| Colorado | ||
| 1968 | Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria | |
| Nick Arnstein | ||
| 1967 | Prince Rodrigo Fernandez | |
| Major Grau | ||
| 1966 | Dr. Rad | |
| 1965 | Self | |
| Himself | ||
| Dr. Yuri Zhivago | ||
| Ahmed | ||
| Sheik Alla Hou | ||
| Genghis Khan / Temujin | ||
| Davich (archiveFootage) | ||
| 1964 | Davich | |
| Francisco | ||
| Self | ||
| Sohamus | ||
| 1962 | Sherif Ali | |
| 1961 | Ibrahim Mohammed | |
| N/A | ||
| 1960 | Hussien | |
| Khalid | ||
| Hassanein | ||
| Adel | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1959 | Muhassab | |
| Goha | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Magdi | ||
| Shokri | ||
| 1958 | Adel | |
| Salah | ||
| Mamduh Ezzat | ||
| 1957 | Aziz | |
| Ahmed | ||
| 1956 | Mokrir | |
| Self | ||
| Ragab | ||
| 1955 | Ahmad | |
| 1954 | Essam | |
| Ahmed | ||
| 1953 | Self | |
| 1948 | Self | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
