Omar Sharif a foreigner of some sort. He bridled at travel restrictions imposed by the government of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, leading to self-exile in Europe. He was a lifelong horse racing enthusiast, and at one time ranked among the world's top contract bridge players. Omar Sharif, whose adopted surname means "noble" or "nobleman", was born as Michel Dimitri Chalhoub in Alexandria, Egypt, to a Melkite Catholic family, either of Syrian or Lebanese descent: he belonged to a small ethnocultural minority known as the Levantine 'Antiochian' Greek Catholics of Egypt ("Rum Katuleek"), an offshoot of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch.
Michel Galabru Michel Galabru Michel Louis Edmond Galabru (27 October 19224 January 2016) was a French actor. Galabru appeared in more than 250 films and worked with directors such as Bertrand Blier, Costa-Gavras, Luc Besson (for "Subway"), and Jean-Luc Godard. He is also well-known for his collaborations with Louis de Funès in "Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez", "Le gendarme se marie", "Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres", "Le gendarme en balade", "Le gendarme à New York", "Le gendarme et les gendarmettes", "Le petit baigneur", "L'avare", and "Nous irons a Deauville" (with Michel Serrault). He worked with the actors Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault in