Omar Sharif

Sharif is also a regular in casinos in France, where he once assaulted a casino employee after losing thousands of dollars on a single roulette bet. Since then he has intermittently toured with his former bandmates and also played with his own bands The Peter Tork Project and Shoe Suede Blues as well as in solo performances and with touring partner James Lee Stanley. He writes a syndicated newspaper bridge column, and there is even a bridge computer game and tutorial that carries his name. Finally in 1980 he quit drinking and the next year gave up drugs, and in 1986 he rejoined fellow-Monkees Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz for a 20th anniversary reunion tour. Sharif is also one of the world's best known contract bridge players. After two years of the show, six albums, a movie, and a television special, Tork had had enough and quit the group, striking out on his own with a group called “Release.” This new band never achieved success, and problems with drugs including alcohol led to his leaving show business entirely for a few years while he taught school and coached basketball. Zhivago in the movie by the same name. On the television show, he was relegated to playing the “dummy” even though he was actually an intelligent, literate person.

He also played Dr. Tork was the most proficient musician of the four, and though the group did not play their own instruments on their first two albums, after that point he played keyboards, bass guitar, banjo, and other instruments on their recordings. His first English language film was Lawrence of Arabia in 1962. Tork got the job and became one of the four members of The Monkees, who ended up being both characters in a television sitcom and a band in their own right. The marriage ended in 1974. While there he befriended other up and coming musicians such as Stephen Stills, and after both moved to the Los Angeles area Stills suggested Tork audition for a new television series about four pop-rock musicians. He married the Egyptian star Faten Hamama, which rocketed his popularity in the Arab World. Tork dropped out of college and moved to New York City, where he became part of the folk music scene in Greenwich Village during the first half of the 1960‘s.

In 1953 he started his acting career. and began studying piano at the age of nine, and showed an aptitude for music by learning to play several different instruments, including the banjo and acoustic and bass guitars. He graduated from Cairo's Victory College with a math and physics major. At first he worked with his father in the lumber business. He was born in Washington, D.C. Omar Sharif (born April 10, 1932), also known as Omar El-Sharif, is an Egyptian-born actor (of Syrian origins) who has starred in several Hollywood films. Peter Halsten Thorkelson (born February 13, 1942), better known as Peter Tork, is an American musician and actor. Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964). Behold a Pale Horse (1964). The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1965). Doctor Zhivago (1965).

Night of the Generals (1967). Mayerling (1968). Funny Girl (1968). Mackenna's Gold (1969).

The Last Valley (1971). The Horsemen (1971). The Tamarind Seed (1974). Juggernaut (1974).

Funny Lady (1975). Crime and Passion (1975). S-H-E (1979). Bloodline (1979).

Pleasure Palace (1980). Oh! Heavenly Dog (1980). Green Ice (1981). Top Secret! (1984).

Peter the Great (1986). Ashanti: Land of No Mercy (1989). The Opium Connection (1990). The Baltimore Bullet (1990).

Memories of Midnight (1991). Grand Larceny (1992). Beyond Justice (1992). Catherine the Great (1995).

The Possessed (1996). Lebanon - Imprisoned Splendour (1997). Heaven Before I Die (1997). Funny Girl/Funny Lady (1997).

The Mysteries of Egypt (1998). Lie Down With Lions (1999). The 13th Warrior (1999). Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (2003).

Hidalgo (2003).