![]() ![]() “I think Egypt lost a man who loved his country so much. His son Tarik did his best for him and he loves him so much.” “He was a very healthy man, he was very thin, and walked every day. He became very bad from a year ago,” Hawass said. He was completely depressed from Alzheimer’s. “He did not want to put anything in his mouth, even if they force him, he refused completely to eat. HE was put on a drip after refusing to eat. Sharif recently spent six months in the Red Sea resort city of Hurghada with his son but was moved to the Behman Hospital, one of Egypt’ best private psychiatry hospitals, after becoming very sick. ![]() He was also involved in a scuffle at a Paris casino in 2003. He suffered a public embarrassment in 2007 when he pleaded no contest to misdemeanor battery and was ordered to take an anger management course for punching a parking valet in Beverly Hills. In his middle years Sharif began appearing in such films as "The Pink Panther Strikes Again," "Oh Heavenly Dog!," "The Baltimore Bullet" and others he dismissed as "rubbish." ![]() He remained a sought-after actor for many years, playing Argentine-born revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara in "Che!", Italian Marco Polo in "Marco the Magnificent" and Mongol leader Genghis Khan in "Genghis Khan." He was also the Jewish gambler Nick Arnstein opposite Barbra Streisand's Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl." The 1968 film was banned in Egypt because he was cast as a Jew. The film's producer, Sam Spiegel, went to Cairo to search for a replacement and found Sharif. Lean had hired another actor but dropped him because his eyes weren't the right color. Lawrence teams up to help lead the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire. Sharif was not "Lawrence of Arabia" director David Lean's first choice to play Sherif Ali. He was also an accomplished bridge player and keem gambler, reportedly once winning a million dollars at an Italian casino but also losing a villa in Lanzarote, Spain as a result of a card game in the 1970s. He tallied 118 acting credits, according to IMDB, and had been due to appear in a short movie '1001 Inventions and the World of Ibn Al-Haytham.' Three years later he starred as the title character in Doctor Zhivago. ![]()
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