A fine actor.

Loved him when he paired with Barbra Streisand.

May he rest in peace and may his family and friends find comfort in their memories of him.

Loved him as Nicky Arnstein.

Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) at the well and Sherif Ali (Omar) appearing as a tiny dot on the horizon.

Steven Spielberg said that before he saw "Lawrence" he wanted to be a doctor. After he saw Lawrence he wanted to be a director.

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Pass!

I loved him as Dr. Zhivago. My favorite movie of all time.

in his career as a leading character actor. The beautiful love affair of Dr. Zhivago would be my favorite film.

in my youth - Dr. Zhivago and Lawrence. Yes, I know , in retrospect, they were great movies - but Lord, for a young guy with places to go and things to do, they went on forever.

melted glaciers, such a beautiful man. K&R

Dementia is a cruel disease.

I wouldn't wish it on anyone, definitely not such a talented and charming man like Mr. Sharif.

Ron Moody, Christopher Lee, Anne Meara, Jerry Weintraub, Sam Simon, Sam Goldwyn, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Gore, BB King, Ben E King, Donna Douglas..... Very sad to lose such talents and memory makers.

Too many movies with great performances to list. Thanks for the memories, Omar Sharif.

He was in not one but two really monumental films in his long and distinguished career. Got to interview him and I was fairly useless the entire time. I don't even know what I asked.

RIP.

One other notable of Sharif.

And yes, can't forget "The Jewel of the Nile"....

Saw a clip where said he would lose hundreds of thousands of $ in a night...said he wasted his life, lead a "dissolute" life...
very sad

May he rest in peace.

Cairo is sketchy for medicine on a good day. And lately, it's not a good day there.

RIP Monsieur Ibrahim....(if you have not seen that film, I recommend it--it's in French but you can find it with the sub-titles--the clever Sharif plays a Turk and speaks a bit of Turkish in the film; he is very believable).

Look what I found, on edit (subtitled, too, if you need that):

He wasn't going to recover no matter where he went.

Perhaps he wanted to die in his homeland. Nothing wrong with that.

the newer medications could have helped him.


He was one of my favorite actors, I especially like his stuff in more recent years. Such nuance...

I would have liked to have him around for a few more years.

He brought a certain aura to the films that he was in. He will be missed.

but the character he played is too much of a myth for me. I'm interested in what the real Lawrence of Arabia story but after giving up early I went into the early history of Iraq with all the coups and assassinations or "accidents" -- "there are no accidents in Iraq" -- from actor playing Saddam's ex-wife in "House of Saddam". Interesting despite all the changes, much has stayed the same. Reading Iraq in the 50s is like now without the Wahabbi group (though I image Saudi Arabia was expanding influence from the get go (1918)

Such a crush I had on Omar Sharif when my 15-year old self saw Doctor Zhivago in the movie theater when it first came out! I went to see it over and over again until I knew every scene, every bit of dialogue by heart.

Many thanks, habibi, for all the pleasure you brought to my heart.