Over the next few years, Sharif starred as a German military officer in The Night of the Generals, as Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria in Mayerlingand as Che Guevara in Che!. In the same year, Sharif reunited with Lean to play the title role in Doctor Zhivago, an adaptation of Boris Pasternak‘s novel and won another Golden Globe. The Organisers decided to play the theme to Doctor Zhivago instead, which was greeted with great cheers.įollowing this breakthrough role in films, Sharif played a variety of characters, including a Spanish priest in Behold a Pale Horse(1964), a Yugoslav wartime patriot in The Yellow Rolls-Royce(1964) and the Mongolian conqueror in Genghis Khan(1965). The three French Senior teams in Malta finished in the first three positions and, as was customary at the time, this would mean the public would get to hear the ‘Marseillaise’ performed three times. ![]() Another year later, at Maastricht, Omar Sharif joined Egypt’s senior team, finishing in a creditable ninth place. ![]() ![]() Two years later, Omar was asked to join a French entry for the senior teams at the European Championships in Malta. He competed in a truly transnational team (with French, German and Lebanese players) and finished 11th. Then, in 1997, he was a member of the Committee of Honour for the Bermuda Bowl on the first occasion that this was organized in an Arab Country, Tunisia. He had two separate bridge careers: in 19 he captained (and played on) the Egyptian team in the Olympiad, finishing 21st on both occasions. Omar was a bad sailor but when the time came for him to be interviewed he gave a bravura performance. A boat trip was organised around the harbour and the TV cameras were out in force. In 1991, Omar was a special guest at the World Bridge Championships in Yokohama. He won £7,000 but lost £100,000 on a film of the match,which was never shown to the public. In the early 70’s Omar set up a Rubber Bridge match in London against Jeremy Flint and Jonathan Cansino at the then unheard of stakes of £1 a point. In 1967 he founded the Omar Sharif Bridge Circus, which included energetic and quick-witted Egyptian Leon Yallouze as the coordinator, young Mike Ledeen (later to become a world renown terrorism expert) who served as the American Manager of the Circus, Benito Garozzo, (considered by many as the greatest bridge player of all time) plus his Italian compatriots Pietro Forquet and Giorgio Belladonna and handsome Parisian internationalist, Claude Delmouly. He wrote several books on bridge and licensed his name to Omar Sharif Bridge, which was first marketed in 1992. In the 1970s and ’80s, with Charles Goren, he co-wrote a syndicated newspaper bridge column for the Chicago Tribune. He was a fine sportsman, representing Egypt at football, but his passion was bridge.īeginning in the 1960s, he earned a reputation as one of the world’s best-known players. The couple had one child ( Tarek Sharif, who was born in 1957 and portrayed the young Zhivago in the eponymous picture) and divorced in 1974. He converted to Islam to marry Hamama and took the name Omar al-Sharif. His first movie was the Egyptian film Siraa Fil-Wadi(1954) ( The Blazing Sun) in 1953, opposite the renowned Egyptian actress Faten Hamama whom he married in 1955. He developed an interest in acting and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.īefore making his English-language film debut with Lawrence of Arabia, for which he earned a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination and international fame, along with two Golden Globe awards, Sharif became a star in Egyptian cinema. Afterward graduating from university, he entered the family lumber business. He was educated at Victoria College in Alexandria and took a degree in mathematics and physics from Cairo University with a major. Of Lebanese and Syrian extraction, the young Michel was raised a Roman Catholic. Omar Sharif, the Franco-Arabic actor best known for playing Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and the title role in Doctor Zhivago (1965), was born Michel Demitri Shalhoub on Apin Alexandria, Egypt. ![]() Omar Sharif, actor and bridge player died yesterday of a heart attack in a Cairo hospital. The international events participated by the WBFīy Anna Gudge In Archive, News, Tribute On 10th July 2015.2017 Laws of Duplicate Bridge, Commentary on the Laws & Laws Committee Minutes.President & Members of the Executive Council.
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