he used to take roles just literally to pay off gambling debts. It wasn’t for anything else. It was to cover costs at the racetrack.” Despite his grandfather’s words, Omar Sharif Jr. did ...

"Omar Sharif" was not the name given to him by his ... to travel from nationality to nationality with conviction in the roles that he played. And so he was really the go-to person for any role ...

Omar Sharif, the actor best known for his roles in "Lawrence of Arabia," "Doctor Zhivago" and "Funny Girl," has died. He was 83. The actor died of a heart attack Friday at a hospital in Cairo ...

Omar Bradley and Sharif because he thought it would be easy for Westerners to pronounce. Lean discovered Sharif through the dozen-plus Egyptian films he’d had roles in, though the actor recalled ...

"Omar Sharif was a legend and a symbol of the Egypt ... who was able to break the deeply racialized casting typecast and take roles that were not an ethnic stereotype, and without denying his ...

In the wake of Omar Sharif's death Friday at 83, celebrities mourned his passing with memories of his classic roles -- notably remembering his entrance in "Lawrence of Arabia." However ...

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Omar Sharif, the Egyptian-born movie actor of virile ... continued to play strong, masculine roles across the ethnic spectrum. He was an Armenian king in "The Fall of the Roman Empire" (1964 ...