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Egyptian-Born Actor Omar Sharif Dies 22 July 17, 2015 Culture Egyptian-born actor Omar Sharif dies Cairo theatres and Lean re-edited the ing movie queen and screen beauty, sprawling tale, it was re-released in 1955. Some of Egypt’s most iconic mar Sharif, the Egyptian- and became a box-office hit. Still, film posters are of Hamama and born actor with dark, Sharif never thought it was as good Sharif. Sharif converted to Islam to soulful eyes who soared as it could have been. marry her and they had a son, Tarek. to international stardom “It’s sentimental. Too much of They divorced in 1974 and Sharif in movie epics Lawrence that music,” he once said, referring never remarried. Hamama died in Oof Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, has to Maurice Jarre’s luscious Oscar- January. died at age 83. winning score. “He was a phenomena; a one of Sharif died July 10th of a heart Although Sharif never achieved a kind. Everyone had a dream to be attack in a Cairo hospital, his long- that level of success again, he remained like Omar Sharif. No one will be like time agent, London-based Steve a sought-after actor for many years, him,” Yousra, Egypt’s most well- Kenis, and the head of Egypt’s The- partly because of his proficiency at known actress for much of the past atrical Arts Guild, Ashraf Zaki, told playing different nationalities. 30 years and a close friend of Sha- the Associated Press. The actor had He was Argentine-born revolu- rif, told the AP after his death was been suffering from Alzheimer’s tionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in announced. disease. Che!, Italian Marco Polo in Marco the “I don’t think we are going to Sharif was Egypt’s biggest box- Magnificent and Mongol leader Geng- ever have someone like him,” office star when director David Lean his Khan in Genghis Khan. He was a she said, describing him as “classy” cast him in 1962’s Lawrence of Ara- German officer in The Night of the and comparing him to a diamond bia. But he was not the director’s Generals, an Austrian prince in May- that is “clean-cut”. first choice to play Sherif Ali, the erling and a Mexican outlaw in Mack- Sharif’s son Tarek revealed tribal leader with whom the enig- enna’s Gold. in May that his father had Alz- matic T.E. Lawrence teams up with He was also the Jewish gambler heimer’s disease. Zaki said to help lead the Arab revolt against Nick Arnstein opposite Barbra Stre- Sharif had stopped eating and the Ottoman Empire. isand’s Fanny Brice in Funny Girl. drinking in the last three days Lean had hired another actor but The 1968 film was banned in his before his death. dropped him because his eyes weren’t native Egypt because he was cast Sharif was romantically the right colour. The film’s producer, as a Jew. linked with a number of Hol- Sam Spiegel, went to Cairo to search In his middle years Sharif appeared lywood co-stars over the years. for a replacement and found Sharif. in such films as The Pink Panther In 2004, he acknowledged After passing a screen test that proved Strikes Again, Oh Heavenly Dog!, The that he also had another son, he was fluent in English, he got the Baltimore Bullet and others he dis- who was born after a one-night job. missed as “rubbish”. stand with an interviewer. His entrance in the movie is stun- In 2003 he accepted a role in the Away from the movies, ning: He is seen in the distance, a French film Monsieur Ibrahim, por- Sharif was a world-class bridge speck in swirling desert sand. As he traying a Muslim shopkeeper in Paris player who for many years draws closer, he emerges first as a who adopts a Jewish boy. The role wrote a newspaper column on black figure on a galloping camel, won him the Cesar, the French the game. He quit bridge in slowly transforming into a hand- equivalent of the Oscar, and he fol- later years, however, when he some, dark-eyed figure with a gap- lowed with Hidalgo, a lively western gave up gambling. tooth smile. starring Viggo Mortensen. In that Sharif spent much of his later The film brought him a support- one he was a desert sheik who duels years in Cairo and at the Royal ing-actor Academy Award nomina- 11 assailants with a sword. His career Moncean Hotel in Paris. tion and international stardom. was back on track. “When you live alone and Three years later, Sharif demon- Born Michael Chalhoub on April you’re not young, it’s good to strated his versatility, playing the 10, 1932 in Egypt’s Mediterranean live in a hotel,” he told a reporter leading role of a doctor-poet who coastal city of Alexandria, Sharif was in 2005. “If you feel lonely, you endures decades of Russian history, the son of Christian Syrian-Lebanese can go down to the bar. I know including World War I and the Bol- parents. all the people who work here and shevik revolution, surviving on his After working three years at his who come here regularly. The room art and his love for his beloved Lara father’s lumber company, he fulfilled is done for you and you don’t have in Doctor Zhivago. his long-time ambition to become to worry about anything,” he said. Lean’s adaptation of the Boris a movie actor, appearing in nearly “If you feel anything, health-wise, Pasternak novel had a rocky begin- two dozen Egyptian films under the you can call the concierge and tell ning in its first US release. Attendance name Omar el-Sharif. them to bring all the ambulances was sparse and reviews were nega- His fame increased when he mar- in Paris.” tive. After MGM removed it from ried Faten Hamama, Egypt’s reign- (The Associated Press) Omar Sharif, an Egyptian superstar Amr Emam and romance. Together with fellows Wadi (The Blazing Sun), will be actors Ahmed Ramzy, Faten Hamama most remembered as the Prince and Abdel Halim Hafez, Sharif was Charming of generations of Cairo for many in Egypt a reminder of the Egyptian women. “good old days” and for “pure and “I think his very Egyptian gyptian-born actor Omar honest love”. looks and the romantic roles Sharif will most likely be His Egyptian fans remember the he played in his films contrib- remembered outside his patriotism he stood for in his role uted a lot to this,” cinema country for his good looks in the classic film Stranger in My critic Sami Helmi told The and roles in epic films House, in which he played a revo- Arab Weekly. “He was loved Esuch as Lawrence of Arabia and Doc- lutionary activist fighting the cor- until the last minute of his tor Zhivago. But in Egypt he is re- ruption of the ruling elite in Egypt life.” membered for his personality and before the 1952 revolution. Other As a star, Sharif’s bright- the values he personified in unfor- fans will not forget the values he ness never dimmed. Among gettable films over many decades. represented in Ayyamna al-Holwa his later roles was one with The handsome actor with a charm- (Our Best Days), which co-starred Egyptian comedian Adel ing smile and sparkling eyes died his lifelong love Hamama and Ramzy, Emam in Hassan wa Mor- July 9th at a hospital in Cairo at the his close friend. cus (Hassan and Morcus), age of 83. Sharif, who made his screen debut a 2008 comedy about the He was, above all, an icon of love in the 1954 Egyptian film Siraa Fil- troubled ties between Egypt’s Christians and Muslims. His last film — 1001 Inventions and the World of Ibn Al-Haytham – is in post-production. The last time Sharif spoke to the media was late in 2014 when he returned to Egypt. He told an Egyptian news- paper then that he returned home to spend his remaining days. “I came back to live, die and be buried here,” he said. Omar Sharif with Egyptian actress and wife Faten Hamama in a Amr Emam is a Cairo-based 1966 photo. contributor to The Arab Weekly..
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