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Date of Birth:
Omar Sharif
10 April 1932
Omar Sharif played in 16 movies in the Adventure, Biography, Drama, War, Music, Romance, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Comedy, Musical, Western, History, Action, Fantasy genres.
Omar Sharif got succeed with average imdb rating 6.3.
World-class Bridge player, he has been known to anticipate or postpone shootings in order to be able to attend major bridge events.
Father of Tarek Sharif.
Fluent in English, Arabic, Greek and French
Of Lebanese/Syrian descent, but lived in Egypt all his life
5 August 2003 - Received a one-month suspended sentence and a $1700 fine for head-butting a police officer in a French casino in July.
He is both author and co-author of several books on Bridge and has licensed his name to a Bridge computer game.
... Also fluent in Italian (ex. appearance in main RAI show ''Domenica In'' 10/23/2005)
Underwent triple bypass surgery in 1992, and suffered a mild heart attack in 1994. Until his bypass, Sharif smoked 100 cigarettes a day; after the operation he quit easily.
Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1990.
Ordered by a US court in Beverly Hills, California to take an anger management course for punching a parking attendant who refused to accept his European currency on 11 June 2005. Sharif was not present for the hearing. (13 February 2007).
Writes a weekly syndicated column on Bridge.
As of 2009, he is only one of six performers who won a Golden Globe Award as Best Lead Actor/Actress in a Motion Picture Drama without being nominated for an Oscar for that same role (his for Doctor Zhivago (1965)). The others are Spencer Tracy in The Actress (1953), Anthony Franciosa in Career (1959), Shirley MacLaine in Madame Sousatzka (1988), Jim Carrey in The Truman Show (1998) and Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road (2008).
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