In this March 2014 photo, Egyptian actor Nour El-Sherif speaks during a film festival in Cairo, Egypt. Its state news agency said Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015, that well-known Egyptian actor el-Sherif has died. He was 69. El-Sherif's big break was in the late 1960s when he played a supporting role in "The Palace of Desire," the screen adaptation of one of the novels in a trilogy by Egyptian Nobel Prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gamil)