Omar Sharif dead

[Valin]

The Telegraph:

July 10 2015

 

Omar Sharif, the Egyptian-born film star, who has died aged 83, was one of the cinema’s gentlest and most civilised exponents of romantic heroism.

 

With his dark flashing eyes, black curly hair, prominent moustache, brigand-like looks, refined features and oily, pained, little smile, he set millions of female hearts a-flutter in a Hollywood tradition that went back to Rudolph Valentino.

 

His career was often blighted by miscasting and the quality of scripts, but he was a box-office attraction from the word go as a friendly sheikh gazing across the shimmering desert with Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia – his first English-speaking role after years of stardom in the Middle East. Although he was condemned to appear after that in a series of conventionally unimaginative blockbusters as an exotic lover, his screen personality, if sometimes dull, was always warm, sincere and most courteous in such box-office hits as The Fall of the Roman Empire, Doctor Zhivago and Funny Girl.

 

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[nickydog]

Well, he was 83. That's a good life.