Luca Teuchmann/Getty ImagesSome sad news about one of film's living legends.
Omar Sharif is battling Alzheimer's disease and is resting at his home in Cairo, the actor's agent confirmed Tuesday to E! News.
The 83-year-old actor's son, Tarek Sharif, first revealed his dad's diagnosis in an interview with Spain's El Mundo over the weekend but did not go into details.
Sharif, who was born in Alexandria, Egypt, was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role of revolutionary Sherif Ali in the 1962 classic Lawrence of Arabia, his collaboration with co-star Peter O'Toole also resulting in an enduring friendship.
His three Golden Globe wins include one for Lawrence, the year he was also named Most Promising Newcomer, and his star turn in 1965's Dr. Zhivago. Sharif also notably charmed the stockings off of Barbra Streisand as suave con man Nicky Arnstein in Funny Girl.
The star has amassed dozens of film and TV movie credits over the years, his brooding good looks and worldly accent scoring him roles of varying nationalities and ethnicities.
Sharif's most recent film credit is the 2013 French-Moroccan film Rock the Casbah.
In 1996 he began writing a bridge column for the British weekly The Observer, and he told the paper about moving back to Egypt, "For many years, I felt I had lost my identity. I was a foreigner everywhere. When I came back to Cairo and saw childhood friends, it made me realize that I want to spend my last years here. I want an old man's routine, to sit and chat about the past with people who remember."