Omar Sharif, a great actor "limited by this somewhat indefinable accent"

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By: Pascal Paradou

Born Michel Dimitri Chalhoub, the Egyptian actor Omar Sharif (1932-2015) found his stage name while filming with Youssef Chahine in 1954. It was with the latter that he was presented in Cannes in 1956, playing in the film Black waters.

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Then began an international career with the consecration of Lawrence of Arabia in which he interpreted the prince of the desert Ali Ibn Kharish, then Doctor Zhivago . Polyglot, he talks about his relationship to French and how he seduced his first wife by reciting Shakespeare in English!

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