Famous moustaches - in pictures

Bollywood's Anil Kapoor has only shaved-off his moustache for three films - Lamhe (1991), Jhoot Bole Kauwa Kaate (1998) and Salaam-e-Ishq (2007) Courtesy Excel Entertainment

Omar Sharif had never had moustache before his appearance in Lawrence of Arabia. In 2012 he told The Express that the director, David Lean, is the one who suggested it. “I arrived in Jordan on a private plane that stopped right in front of this lone figure,” he says. “I got out and he walked around me, studying my profile. Then he took me straight to the make-up department and said: ‘How about a moustache?’ ” The Egyptian legend has never looked back. D Morrison/Express/Getty Images

Eddie Murphy has proudly sported his moustache for his whole career. We can't find a picture of him without it. Courtesy Paramount Pictures

Tom Selleck is famous for his moustache. Speaking to GQ Magazine on growing a moustache, he said "Part of that’s genetic. You either got it or you don’t.” Everett Collection / Rex Features

Hulk Hogan has hardly ever been seen without his moustache. The wrestling star has what is known as a "horse-shoe" style moustache.. Scott Gries/Getty Images

In a 1933 transcript of interviews printed by Univeristy Press of Mississippi, Chaplin said he added the moustache to his costume because it had a comical appearance and was small enough so as not to hide his expression.

Clark Gable is synonmous with his moustache. Here we see him with it in Gone with the Wind. However the star was very reluctant to grow it at first. .Everett Collection / Rex Features

The remains of artist Salvador Dali were exhumed following a paternity suit by a woman named by Pilar Abel, 61 from the nearby city of Girona. His moustache was exactly the same. "The handlebars of his moustache were still 'marking (the time of) 10 past 10'" as he wished, said Narcís Bardalet, Dalí’s embalmer. AP

Bert Reynolds has no intention of shaving his tash. “After I grew it, I got better parts and better ladies,” he told People magazine in 2015 Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Freddie Mercury's moustache is undoubtedly rock's finest. It made its debut in the video of Play the Game in 1980. Gill Allen / AP photo

In celebration of Movember, we have put together a gallery of our favourite famous moustaches.

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