Omar Sharif

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 would later discover 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. In 1962, he took on the role of Prince Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia under the direction of David Lean. This film, the first outside Egypt for the actor, marked the beginning of a long friendship with Peter O'Toole and a turning point in Omar Sharif's career. He won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and decided to leave his native country for Hollywood.

Known For: Acting

Born: Alexandria, Egypt, 1932-04-10

Died: 2015-07-10

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1954	The Blazing Sun	Ahmed	70
2	1954	The Devil of the Desert	Essam	50
3	1955	Our Best Days	أحمد	67
4	1956	Dark Waters	Ragab	62
5	1956	The Lebanese Mission	Mokrir	25
6	1957	Land of Peace	Ahmed	0
7	1957	Sleepless	Aziz	61
8	1958	Beach of Secrets	Mamduh Ezzat	60
9	1958	Ghaltet Habibi	Salah	0
10	1958	Sayedat el kasr	Adel	62
11	1959	Rendezvous with a Stranger	Magdi	0
12	1959	We the Students	عادل	60
13	1959	Scandal in Zamalek		0
14	1959	For the Sake of a Woman	شكري زدحمد	0
15	1959	Goha	Goha	52
16	1959	Struggle on the Nile	محسّب	72
17	1960	Agony of Love		0
18	1960	My Only Love	Adel	0
19	1960	The Beginning and the End	Hassanein	80
20	1960	The River of Love	Khalid	80
21	1960	Eshaet Hob	Hussein	78
22	1961	Gharam Al-Asyad	Essam Mourad	60
23	1961	A Man in Our House	إبراهيم حمدي	66
24	1962	Lawrence of Arabia	Sherif Ali	80
25	1964	The Fall of the Roman Empire	Sohamus	65
26	1964	Behold a Pale Horse	Francisco	59
27	1964	The Yellow Rolls-Royce	Davich	61
28	1965	Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean	Self	0
29	1965	The Car That Became a Star	Davich (archiveFootage)	60
30	1965	Genghis Khan	Genghis Khan / Temujin	59
31	1965	Marco the Magnificent	Sheik Alla Hou	53
32	1965	The Mamluks	Ahmed	0
33	1965	Doctor Zhivago	Dr. Yuri Zhivago	75
34	1965	Pasternak	Himself	50
35	1965	Moscow in Madrid	Self	0
36	1966	The Poppy Is Also a Flower	Dr. Rad	58
37	1967	The Night of the Generals	Major Grau	68
38	1967	More Than a Miracle	Prince Rodrigo Fernandez	59
39	1968	Funny Girl	Nick Arnstein	72
40	1968	Mayerling	Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria	62
41	1969	Mackenna's Gold	Colorado	66
42	1969	The Appointment	Federico Fendi	55
43	1969	Che!	Che Guevara	50
44	1971	The Last Valley	Vogel	66
45	1971	The Horsemen	Uraz	65
46	1971	The Burglars	Abel Zacharia	70
47	1972	The Right to Love	Pierre	60
48	1973	The Mysterious Island	Captain Nemo	53
49	1974	The Tamarind Seed	Feodor Sverdlov	62
50	1974	Juggernaut	Captain Alex Brunel	61
51	1975	Funny Lady	Nick Arnstein	52
52	1976	Crime and Passion	Andre Ferren	60
53	1976	The Pink Panther Strikes Again	Egyptian Assassin (uncredited)	68
54	1979	Ashanti	Prince Hassan	59
55	1979	Bloodline	Ivo Palazzi	49
56	1980	S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert	Baron Cesare Magnasco	38
57	1980	The Baltimore Bullet	The Deacon	59
58	1980	Oh! Heavenly Dog	Bart	55
59	1980	Pleasure Palace	Louie Lefevre	60
60	1981	Inchon	Indian Brigadier	36
61	1981	Green Ice	Meno Argenti	56
62	1983	Ayoub	Ayoub/Abdul Hamid Al-Sukkari	65
63	1983	La Martingale	Alex Joski	80
64	1984	Top Secret!	Agent Cedric	71
65	1985	David Lean: A Life in Film	Self	60
66	1985	Vicious Circle	Garcin	0
67	1986	Harem	Sultan Hassan	48
68	1987	Grand Larceny	Rashid Saud	0
69	1988	Keys to Freedom	Jonathan	30
70	1988	Les pyramides bleues	Alex	31
71	1988	The Possessed	Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky	54
72	1989	The Puppeteer	Mohamed Gad Al-Karim	90
73	1990	Mountains of the Moon	Arab Chief in Cairo (uncredited)	64
74	1990	Journey of Love	Rico	0
75	1991	Desert Law	Emir Beni-Zair	54
76	1991	Mother	Hagop Zakarian	78
77	1991	Citizen Masrey	Mayor Abdel Razek El-Shershaby	73
78	1992	588 rue Paradis	Hagop Zakarian	71
79	1992	Heavenly Sin		35
80	1992	Beyond Justice	Emir Beni-Zair	38
81	1992	Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris	Marquis Hippolite	78
82	1993	Laughter, Joy, Work and Love		20
83	1994	The Rainbow Thief	Dima	54
84	1994	Lie Down with Lions	Safar Khan	34
85	1995	Doctor Zhivago: The Making of a Russian Epic	Narrator (voice)	0
86	1996	Ingrid Bergman Remembered	Self (archive footage)	67
87	1996	Catherine the Great	Razumovsky	57
88	1996	Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt	Narrator	40
89	1997	Heaven Before I Die	Khalil Gibran	40
90	1998	Mysteries of Egypt	Grandfather	56
91	1999	Cleopatra's Palace: In Search of a Legend	Narrator	0
92	1999	The 13th Warrior	Melchisidek	67
93	2000	Going Public		35
94	2000	The Making of Lawrence of Arabia	Self	100
95	2001	The Parole Officer	Victor	58
96	2002	Pyramid	Nakht (voice)	60
97	2003	Monsieur Ibrahim	Monsieur Ibrahim	71
98	2003	The Making of 'Lawrence of Arabia'	Self (archive footage)	70
99	2004	Hollywood Legenden	Self	20
100	2004	Hidalgo	Sheikh Riyadh	69
101	2004	Looking for Sophia	Self	80
102	2005	Shaka Zulu: The Citadel	The King	50
103	2005	St. Peter	San Pietro	63
104	2006	Fire at My Heart	Principe Nicola	60
105	2006	The Coptic Museum	Narrator	60
106	2006	One Night with the King	Prince Memucan	66
107	2007	Fred Zinnemann - Der Mann, der 'High Noon' machte	Self	0
108	2007	Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs	Self - Presenter	0
109	2008	10,000 BC	Narrator (voice)	55
110	2008	Hassan and Marcus		65
111	2009	La Traversée du désir	Self	57
112	2009	The Traveller	Hassan	80
113	2009	A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics	Self	80
114	2010	I Forgot to Tell You	Jaume	55
115	2010	2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift	(archive footage)	66
116	2011	Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde	Self	60
117	2013	Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten	Self	0
118	2013	Rock the Casbah	Moulay Hassan	63
119	2013	A Castle in Italy	Omar Sharif	54
120	2015	1001 Inventions and the World of Ibn Al-Haytham	Grandfather	50
121	2020	Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World	Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)	70
122	2021	Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age	Self - Actor (archive footage)	78
123	2022	Ademã – A Vida e as Notas de Ibrahim Sued	Self	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Bambi Awards	Self	90
2	1953	The Oscars	Self	69
3	1956	Cinépanorama	Self	80
4	1964	Die Drehscheibe	Self	60
5	1969	الحب الضائع	عمر	0
6	1971	Samedi soir	Self	60
7	1971	V.I.P. Schaukel	Self	60
8	1971	Cadet Rousselle	Self	0
9	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
10	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	63
11	1973	Mysterious Island	Captain Nemo	62
12	1974	Spécial cinéma	Self	0
13	1975	Numéro un	Self	60
14	1975	Numéro un	Self - Host	60
15	1976	30 millions d'amis	Self	58
16	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	62
17	1982	Wogan	Self	45
18	1984	The Far Pavilions	Koda Dad	75
19	1985	The Mind of David Berglas		60
20	1986	Wedden, dat..?	Self	0
21	1986	Peter the Great	Prince Feodor Romodanovsky	82
22	1986	Harem	Sultan Hassan	50
23	1986	Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna	Czar Nicholas II	70
24	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	62
25	1991	Memories of Midnight	Constantin Demiris	43
26	1992	Parabéns	Self	0
27	1995	Viva el lunes	Self	20
28	1996	Gulliver's Travels	Sorcerer	71
29	1998	Vivement dimanche	Self	30
30	2005	St. Peter	Pietro	0
31	2006	The Ten Commandments	Jethro	54
32	2006	Kronprinz Rudolf	Hans Canon	100
33	2007	Hanan W Haneen		0
34	2009	The Last Templar	Konstantine	54
35	2020	TV Story Superstar	Self (archive footage)	0