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Sharif Slapped for Head-Butting Cop
Maybe Omar Sharif should stick to playing bridge--because that roulette thing just isn't working out.
The onetime Oscar-nominated star of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago and world-class bridge meister, found himself on the wrong end of a court case after head-butting a cop during a losing streak at a suburban Paris casino.
Sharif was convicted of whacking and insulting said officer, fined 1,500 euros (about $1,700) and given a one-month suspended prison sentence, according to the Agence France-Presse wire service.
The 71-year-old Egyptian actor was reportedly suffering through a run of bad luck while playing the wheel July 5 at the at the Enghien-les-Bains casino outside Paris.
Sharif, said to be a regular at the casino (even though he recently told the Associated Press he had given up gambling a decade ago), was down more $30,000 when he began quarreling with the croupier.
When the police officer came over to see what the fuss was about, Sharif head-butted him. The injury forced the cop to take two days off work, according to Agence France-Press. Sharif was also ordered to pay the cop about $350 in restitution.
According to the wire service, Sharif told the judge that he had no recollection of the incident. But the judge went to the videotape--the casino's security cameras caught the actor's meltdown--and ultimately ruled against the aging star.
No immediate comment Thursday from the actor's camp. Sharif is reportedly on vacation for the rest of the month.
Sharif's still best known for his career-making roles in David Lean's epics Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965). He earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for the former and won Golden Globes for both films. Other key credits include Barbra Streisand's gambler hubby in Funny Girl and a self-parodying stint in the spy spoof Top Secret!
More recently he appeared in the 1999 Antonio Banderas-vs.-vikings adventure The 13th Warrior and the 1996 NBC miniseries Gulliver's Travels, as well as several foreign projects. Sharif will next be seen opposite Viggo Mortensen in Disney's horse-racing adventure Hidalgo, slated for release in 2004.
An avid bridge player, he's also the author of Omar Sharif's Life in Bridge.
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