Omar Sharif Has Left The Building

[Vapin' Joe]

Surprised me, I thought he had years ago.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Me too..

 

[stephec]

And he was only 83.

Although he had a part in that Steve Coogan film, The Parole Officer, not that many years ago and didn't look ancient.

 

[User269]

A demon backgammon player...............my favourtie board game.

 

[craigwend]

 

[welsh dragon]

My mum liked him, and before you say anything stephec, no im not nearly as old as he was and he was a mean bridge player

 

[ScotiaLass]

I too had thought he was already dead (my bad!).
A fine looking man and actor, RIP sir.

 

[Mrs M]

Aw, sad news.
Remember going to see Dr Zhivago at the pictures when I was a kid, didn't like it, scared me too much!
Another fine actor gone.

 

[Saluki]

A demon backgammon player...............my favourtie board game.

I used to work with a champion Bridge player who knew Omar Sharif very well. Said that he was a wonderful man.

RIP. Another great actor gone.

 

[Hyslop]

Alas,I also thought of him as having already died.For some reason, I tend to associate him in my mind with Peter Ustinov.Same era I suppose,and something similar in the sophisticated,urbane delivery and the grasp of subjects far beyond the world of theatre.

 

[Illaveago]

Yes, sadly another fine actor gone!

 

[Drago]

A legend. RIP feller.

 

[ufkacbln]

I always have two minds about this

He was a superb actor, a true "celebrity" without all the traits, self publicity and tantrums of the modern ones

Was he " forgotten" or allowed to live his last years in dignity?


I think the latter and that is important


It is much better to remember the contribution that he made than have had a media circus about his illness

 

[cyberknight]

 

[Paulus]

Another sad loss. He always came across as a gentleman in the true sense of the word when being interviewed. There were no tantrums in public or lurid stories in the gutter press about him.