Omar Sharif

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1932-04-10 (83 years old)

Deathday

2015-07-10

Place of Birth

Alexandria, Egypt

Omar Sharif

Biography

Omar Sharif (April 10, 1932 - July 10, 2015) was an Egyptian actor, generally regarded as one of his country's greatest male film stars. The son of a precious wood merchant, he grew up in a united Christian family of Syrian and Lebanese descent with his parents and his sister. Enrolled at Victoria College, a prestigious British school in Alexandria, the teenager studied science and foreign languages and later discovered theater classes. A brilliant student, he continued his studies at Cairo University, where he obtained his diploma in mathematics and physics. He later converted to Islam to marry Egyptian actress Faten Hamama. In 1962, he too...

Acting

2003

Monsieur Ibrahim

as Monsieur Ibrahim

1965

Doctor Zhivago

as Dr. Yuri Zhivago

1962

Lawrence of Arabia

as Sherif Ali

1979

Bloodline

as Ivo Palazzi

1965

Pasternak

as Himself

2004

Hidalgo

as Sheikh Riyadh

1990

Mountains of the Moon

as Arab Chief in Cairo (uncredited)

1996

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

as Self (archive footage)

1965

Genghis Khan

as Genghis Khan / Temujin

1998

Mysteries of Egypt

as Grandfather

2008

10,000 BC

as Narrator (voice)

2006

Fire at My Heart

as Principe Nicola

1984

Top Secret!

as Agent Cedric

1980

1971

The Burglars

as Abel Zacharia

1987

Grand Larceny

as Rashid Saud

2002

Pyramid

as Nakht (voice)

1974

Juggernaut

as Captain Alex Brunel

1971

1967

1967

More Than a Miracle

as Prince Rodrigo Fernandez

2006

One Night with the King

as Prince Memucan

1969

Che!

as Che Guevara

1973

The Mysterious Island

as Captain Nemo

1968

Funny Girl

as Nick Arnstein

1968

Mayerling

as Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria

1975

Funny Lady

as Nick Arnstein

1969

Mackenna's Gold

as Colorado

1971

1965

1974

The Tamarind Seed

as Feodor Sverdlov

1969

The Appointment

as Federico Fendi

1979

Ashanti

as Prince Hassan

1959

1981

Green Ice

as Meno Argenti

1991

Mother

as Hagop Zakarian

1992

588 rue Paradis

as Hagop Zakarian

1992

Beyond Justice

as Emir Beni-Zair

2005

St. Peter

as San Pietro

1965

Marco the Magnificent

as Sheik Alla Hou

1976

Crime and Passion

as Andre Ferren

1994

Lie Down with Lions

as Safar Khan

1964

1988

The Possessed

as Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky

1980

2013

Rock the Casbah

as Moulay Hassan

1980

Pleasure Palace

as Louie Lefevre

1980

S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert

as Baron Cesare Magnasco

1954

The Blazing Sun

as Ahmed أحمد

1988

Keys to Freedom

as Jonathan

1958

1957

Sleepless

as Aziz

1990

1961

A Man in Our House

as إبراهيم حمدي

1972

1999

The 13th Warrior

as Melchisidek

2009

The Traveller

as Hassan

1997

Heaven Before I Die

as Khalil Gibran

2006

1960

Eshaet Hob

as Hussein

1960

1992

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

as Marquis Hippolite

2001

1986

Harem

as Sultan Hassan

1955

Our Best Days

as أحمد

2010

1959

Goha

as Goha

1991

Citizen Masrey

as Mayor Abdel Razek El-Shershaby

1991

Desert Law

as Emir Beni-Zair

1996

Catherine the Great

as Razumovsky

1976

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

as Egyptian Assassin (uncredited)

1959

For the Sake of a Woman

as شكري زدحمد

1960

1959

We the Students

as عادل

1983

La Martingale

as Alex Joski

2020

Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World

as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)

1965

The Mamluks

as Ahmed

1981

Inchon

as Indian Brigadier

1983

Ayoub

as Ayoub/Abdul Hamid Al-Sukkari

1956

Dark Waters

as Ragab

1958

1965

The Car That Became a Star

as Davich (archive footage)

1989

The Puppeteer

as Mohamed Gad Al-Karim

1961

Gharam Al-Asyad

as Essam Mourad

2021

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

1957

2013

A Castle in Italy

as Omar Sharif

1985

1958

Beach of Secrets

as Mamduh Ezzat

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