Omar Sharif (1932-2015)

[Chris Knipp]

Omar Sharif, whose surname means "the noble man" in Arabic,[5][6] was born on 10 April 1932,[7] as Michel Demitri Chalhoub[8] in Alexandria, Egypt,[9] to a Melkite Greek Catholic family of Syrian-Lebanese (Levantine) descent. Wikipedia.

I remember him fondly for François Dupeyron's 2003 Monsieur Ibrahim (Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran). Also saw him in a florid Arabic historical film The Mamluks (al-Mamalik) in Cairo. And of course Lawrence of Arabia. Never liked that sentimental bore, Dr. Zhivago. He had some good and not-so-good senior roles. He was a gambling addict. His son reported in May that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.