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PHOTO GALLERY: Egyptians bid farewell to Omar Sharif




Mourners carry the coffin of Egyptian actor Omar Sharif during his funeral procession at the Hussein Tantawi Mosque in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, July 12, 2015 (AP)

Mourners pray over the coffin of Egyptian actor Omar Sharif for a funeral procession at the Hussein Tantawi Mosque in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, July 12, 2015 (AP)

Mourners carry the coffin of Egyptian actor Omar Sharif during his funeral procession at the Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi Mosque in Cairo, Egypt, July 12, 2015 (Reuters)

Mourners pray over the coffin of Egyptian actor Omar Sharif at the Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi Mosque in Cairo, Egypt July 12, 2015 (Reuters)

Actors carry the coffin of Egyptian actor Omar Sharif during a funeral procession at the Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi Mosque in Cairo, Egypt, July 12, 2015 (Reuters)

Mourners carry the coffin of Egyptian actor Omar Sharif during his burial ceremony at El Shafie Cemetery in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, July 12, 2015 (AP)

Cameramen film mourners as they carry the coffin of Egyptian actor Omar Sharif during his burial ceremony at El Shafie Cemetery in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, July 12, 2015 (AP)

Egyptian actor Gamil Ratib is helped by a relative as he attends Omar Sharif's burial at the El Shafie Cemetery in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, July 12, 2015 (AP)

Media film mourners as they carry the coffin of Egyptian actor Omar Sharif during his burial ceremony at El Shafie Cemetery in the old Islamic area of Cairo, Egypt, July 12, 2015 (Reuters)

Egyptian actor Hussein Fahmy, right, mourns next to the coffin of Egyptian actor Omar Sharif during his funeral procession at the Hussein Tantawi Mosque in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, July 12, 2015 (AP)

Mourners pray next to the coffin of Egyptian actor Omar Sharif during his funeral procession at the Hussein Tantawi Mosque in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, July 12, 2015 (AP)

Egyptian film star Khaled Nabawy attends the funeral of Egyptian actor Omar Sharif at the Hussein Tantawi Mosque in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, July 12, 2015 (AP)

Lebanese actress Madeleine Tabar leaves following the burial of actor Omar Sharif at El Shafie cemetery in southern Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, July 12, 2015 (AP)

Egyptian actor Magdy Kamel (C) arrives with his wife Maha Ahmed and actor Farouk El Fishawy (R) for the burial ceremony of Egyptian actor Omar Sharif at El Shafie Cemetery in the old Islamic area of Cairo, Egypt, July 12, 2015 (Reuters)

Sharif, the Egyptian-born actor with the dark, soulful eyes who soared to international stardom in movie epics, "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago," died in a Cairo hospital of a heart attack, on Friday, 10 July. He was 83