Omar Sharif Head-Butts French Cop

Actor Omar Sharif was convicted of striking a police officer at a casino near Paris and received a one-month suspended sentence, court officials said Thursday.

The 71-year-old Egyptian actor also was fined $1,700 on Tuesday for insults and violence directed at a police officer July 5 at the Enghien-les-Bains casino in suburban Paris, a judicial official told The Associated Press.

The official, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, gave no further details, but Le Parisien newspaper reported Sharif was arguing with a croupier while playing roulette at the casino, where he was known as a regular.

When an officer intervened and asked Sharif to leave, the actor insulted and head-butted him, the newspaper reported.

Sharif was not reachable for comment. An employee of the hotel where he lives in Paris said the actor was on vacation for the rest of the month.

Sharif, who starred in "Doctor Zhivago," told The Associated Press in a recent interview that he had given up his gambling habit 10 years ago.