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Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2021
Rock the Casbah

as Moulay Hassan

2013
The Last Templar

as Konstantine

2009
10,000 BC

as

2008
One Night with the King

as Prince Memucan

2006
The Ten Commandments

as Jethro

2006
St. Peter

as San Pietro

2005
Hidalgo

as Sheikh Riyadh

2004
Monsieur Ibrahim

as Monsieur Ibrahim

2003
Pyramid

as Nakht (voice)

2002
The Parole Officer

as Victor

2001
The 13th Warrior

as Melchisidek

1999
Mysteries of Egypt

as Grandfather

1998
Gulliver's Travels

as Sorcerer

1996
Beyond Justice

as Emir Beni-Zair

1992
Memories of Midnight

as Constantin Demiris

1991
The Rainbow Thief

as Dima

1994
Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna

as Czar Nicholas II

1986
Peter the Great

as Prince Feodor Romodanovsky

1986
Harem

as Sultan Hassan

1986
Top Secret!

as Agent Cedric

1984
The Far Pavilions

as Koda Dad

1984
Green Ice

as Meno Argenti

1982
Omar Sharif Omar Sharif

Birthday

1932-04-10

Place of Birth

Alexandria, Egypt

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.
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