Jamshid Mashayekhi
Acting
- Born:
- 1934-11-26
- Died:
- 2019-04-02
- Place of birth:
- Jajrood, Tehran, Iran
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
Filmography
Pure White
Dead End of Trust
The Enigma of the Shah
The Teacher without Master
Good Fellas
The father of other
همه چیز آنجاست
I am not Scrap
Soutedel
Cheque
Thirteen 59
Crime
Tabriz dar meh
Setayesh
My Child
Being Farmanara
A Little Kiss
A Candle in the Wind
Abadan
My Lady
After the silence
A House Built on Water
Unruled Paper
Once Upon a Time in Tehran
Bitter Almonds
Punishment Committe
The Path of Glory
The Fateful Day
Tear and Smile
Anxious
Alma
Galan
Malek khatoon
The Lead
Hezar Dastan
The Spell
The Grandfather
The fall of Sahra
Tornado
The Rubble
Kamalolmolk
Chrysanthemum
The Musketeer
The Gunman
Dada
The House of Spider
All Three, He Said
Desiderium
Fish Die in Soil
Charlotte be bazarche miayad
The Iconoclast
Honeymoon
Water
Zabih
Prince Ehtejab
The Sound of the Desert
The Curse
The Spring
Bi-hejab
Lollipop
Sky with No Stars
Motreb
Furious Men
Faryad
The Starless Sky
Pol
Youth Is a World of Its Own
Sunrise
Qeysar
The Cow
The Brick and the Mirror
Serpent’s Skin
Fannizadeh
Baghe Gilas (1994)