Jamshid Mashayekhi
Department: Acting
Biography
Jamshid Mashayekhi is a celebrated Iranian actor and an iconic figure of Iranian cinema. Mashayekhi began professional acting on stage in 1957. His first feature film role was Brick and Mirror(1965, Ebrahim Golestan). After a four-year break, he acted in The Cow (1969, Darius Mehrjui) and Kaiser(Qeysar) (1969, Masoud Kimiai). 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.
Known For
Water
1975
Lollipop
1972
The Sound of the Desert
1974
Pure White
2022
Tear and Smile
1995
Bi-hejab
1973
Charlotte be bazarche miayad
1977
Dead End of Trust
2017
The Musketeer
1984
The Cow
1969
Desiderium
1977
Faryad
1971
Being Farmanara
2006
Qeysar
1969
Javani ham alamai darad
1970
Sky with No Stars
1972
The Gunman
1984
Motreb
1972
Honeymoon
1976
The Brick and the Mirror
1966
The Starless Sky
1971
Abadan
2004
Unruled Paper
2002
Prince Ehtejab
1975
The Spring
1973
Kamalolmolk
1984
Zabih
1975
The Curse
1973
A Little Kiss
2005
Alma
1992
The Grandfather
1986
Crime
2011
Punishment Committe
1997
The Lead
1989
Fish Die in Soil
1977
Pol
1971
Dada
1983
I am not Scrap
2014
Good Fellas
2016
A Candle in the Wind
2004
The House of Spider
1983
All Three, He Said
1981
Sunrise
1970
A House Built on Water
2002
The father of other
2015
Furious Men
1971
The Spell
1987
The Fateful Day
1995
Cheque
2012
Bitter Almonds
1998
The Iconoclast
1976
Once Upon a Time in Tehran
1999
Thirteen 59
2011
My Lady
2003
Chrysanthemum
1984
Serpent’s Skin
1964
My Child
2009
The Teacher without Master
2016
Soutedel
2012
After the silence
2002
Fannizadeh
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The Path of Glory
1995
Galan
1991
The Rubble
1985
Anxious
1994
Malek Khatoon
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همه چیز آنجاست
2014
Tabriz dar meh
2011
Hezar Dastan
1988
The fall of Sahra
1986
The Enigma of the Shah
2016
Baghe Gilas (1994)
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