Jamshid Mashayekhi is a celebrated Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

ian actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 and an iconic figure of Iranian cinema.

Career

Mashayekhi began professional acting on stage in 1957. His first feature film role was Brick and Mirror(1965, Ebrahim Golestan

Ebrahim Golestan

Ebrahim Golestan is an Iranian filmmaker and literary figure with a career spanning half a century...

). After a four-year break, he acted in The Cow (1969, Darius Mehrjui

Darius Mehrjui

Dariush Mehrju'i , also spelled as Mehrjui, Mehrjoui, and Mehrjuyi, is an Iranian director, screenwriter, producer, and film editor....

) and Kaiser (Qeysar) (1969, Masoud Kimiai

Masoud Kimiai

Masoud Kimiai is an Iranian director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in 1941 in Tehran, Iran.- Biography :Kimiai started his career as an assistant director and made his debut, Come Stranger, in 1968. With his second film, Kaiser , he and Dariush Mehrjui with The film Cow, caused a...

). Mashayekhi commonly appears as an elderly grandfather because of his white hair and charismatic face and figure. He received a best performance award for The Grandfather (1985, Majid Gharizadeh) from the First Festival of Non-aligned Countries in North Korea

North Korea

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...

.

Selected filmography

• Brick and Mirror (Khesh va Ayeneh, 1965)
• Kaiser (Qeysar, 1969)
• The Cow (Gaav, 1969)
• The Curse, 1973
• Prince Ehtedjab, 1974
• Brefts of Hope, 1977
• Hezar Dastan
  Hezar Dastan
  Hezar-Dastan 1978-1987 is a highly popular TV series in Iran directed by Ali Hatami. Hezar Dastan is considered an eternal work in the history of Iranian TV...
  
  , (1978-1987, TV series)
• Kamalolmolk, 1983
• The Lead, 1988
• Honeymoon, 1992
• Khane'i Rooy-e Āb (A House Built on Water), directed by Bahman Farmān'ārā
  Bahman Farmanara
  Bahman Farmanara is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer.Bahman Farmanara is the second son in a family of four brothers and one sister. The family business was Textile and he was the only son who did not join the business and went off to United Kingdom and later on to US to...
  
  , 2001
• Abadan
  Abadan (film)
  Abadan is a 2003 drama film by Iranian filmmaker Mani Haghighi. It was his first feature film after making a few short films. Because the film was not pre-approved by Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance and because of including profanity and spoken references to extramarital...
  
  , 2003
• Pol-e Siz'da'hom (The Thirteenth Bridge), directed by Farhad Gharib, 2005
• Yek Bus-e Ku'chu'lu (A Teensy Kiss), directed by Bahman Farmān'ārā, 2005

External links

Celebrating 50-year acting career of Jamshid Mashayekhi, BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...