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Zahra Hatami was born on 30 December 1947 in Isfahan, Iran. She was an actress and costume designer, known for Nightingales (1988), The Suitor (1972) and Once Upon a Time in Tehran (1999). She was married to Ali Hatami. She died on 17 May 2024 in Teheran, Iran.- Zohreh Fakour Sabour was an Iranian Actress cinema, television and theatre born March 21, 1978, Tehran, Iran and she died on March 1, 2022 (aged 43) Tehran, Iran. She has acted in many series, She became famous by playing in the series Youthful Days (1999) directed by Shapur Gharib. She continued his work mostly in TV series, but she also continued his activity in cinema and theater.
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Dariush Mehrjui was born to a middle-class family in Tehran. He showed interest in painting miniatures, music, and playing santoor and piano. He spent a lot of time going to the movies, particularly American films which were un-dubbed and inter-spliced with explanatory title cards that explained the plot throughout the films. At this time Mehrjui started to learn English so as to better enjoy the films. The film that had the strongest impact on him as a child was Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves. At the age of 12, Mehrjui built a 35 mm projector, rented two-reel films and began selling tickets to his neighborhood friends. In 1959, Mehrjui moved to the United States to study at University of California, Los Angeles' (UCLA) Department of Cinema. One of his teachers there was Jean Renoir, whom Mehrjui credited for teaching him how to work with actors. Mehrjui was dissatisfied with the film program due to its emphasis on the technical aspects of film and the quality of most of the teachers. He switched his major to philosophy and graduated from UCLA in 1964. Mehrjui started his own literary magazine in 1964, Pars Review. The magazine's intention was to bring contemporary Persian literature to western readers. During this time he wrote his first script with the intention of filming it in Iran. He moved back to Tehran in 1965. Back in Tehran, Mehrjui found employment as a journalist and screenwriter. From 1966 to 1968 he was a teacher at Tehran's Center for Foreign Language Studies, where he taught classes in literature and English language. He also gave lectures on films and literature at the Center for Audiovisual Studies through the University of Tehran.
Dariush Mehrjui made his debut in 1966 with Diamond 33, a big budget parody of the James Bond film series. The film was not financially successful. But his second feature film, Gaav, brought him national and international recognition. The film Gaav, a symbolic drama, is about a simple villager and his nearly mythical attachment to his cow. The film is adapted from a short story by renowned Iranian literary figure Gholamhossein Sa'edi. Sa'edi was a friend of Mehrjui and suggested the idea to him when Mehrjui was looking for a suitable second film, and they collaborated on the script. Through Sa'edi, Mehrjui met the actors Ezzatolah Entezami and Ali Nassirian, who were performing in one of Sa'edi's plays. Mehrjui would work with Entezami and Nassirian throughout his career. The film's score was composed by musician Hormoz Farhat. The film was completed in 1969. In the film, Entezami stars as Masht Hassan, a peasant in an isolated village in southern Iran. Hassan has a close relationship with his cow, which is his only possession (Mehrjui has said that Entezami even resembled a cow in the film). When other people from Hassan's village discover that the cow has been mysteriously killed, they decide to bury the cow and tell Hassan that it has run away. While in mourning for the cow, Hassan goes to the barn where it was kept and begins to assume the cow's identity. When his friends attempt to take him to a hospital, Hassan commits suicide. Gaav was banned for over a year by the Ministry of Culture and Arts, despite being one of the first two film in Iran to receive government funding. This was most likely due to Sa'edi being a controversial figure in Iran. His work was highly critical of the Pahlavi government, and he had been arrested sixteen times. When it was finally released in 1970, it was highly praised and won an award at the Ministry of Culture's film festival, but it was still denied an export permit. In 1971, the film was smuggled out of Iran and submitted to the Venice Film Festival where, without programming or subtitles, it became the largest event of that year's festival. It won the International Critics Award at Venice, and later that year, Entezami won the Best Actor Award at the Chicago International Film Festival. Along with Masoud Kimiai's Qeysar and Nasser Taqvai's Calm in Front of Others, the film Gaav initiated the Iranian New Wave movement and is considered a turning point in the history of Iranian cinema. The public received it with great enthusiasm, despite the fact that it had ignored all the traditional elements of box office attraction. It was screened internationally and received high praise from many film critics. Several of Iran's prominent actors (Entezami, Nassirian, Jamshid Mashayekhi, and Jafar Vali) played roles in the film. While waiting for Gaav to be released and gaining international recognition, Mehrjui was busy directing two more films. In 1970 he shot Agha-ye Hallou (Mr. Naive), a comedy which starred and was written by Ali Nassirian. The film also starred Fakhri Khorvash and Entezami. In the film, Nassirian plays a simple, naive villager who goes to Tehran to find a wife. While in the big city he is treated roughly and constantly fooled by local hustlers and con artists. When he goes into a dress shop to purchase a wedding gown, he meets a beautiful young woman (Fakhri Khorvash) and proposes to her. The young woman turns out to be a prostitute who rejects him and takes his money, spending him back to his village empty handed but more world-wise. Agha-ye Hallou was screened at the Sepas Film Festival in Tehran in 1971 where it won awards for Best Film and Best Director. Later that year it was screened at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival. It was a commercial success in Iran. After finishing Agha-ye Hallou in 1970, Mehrjui traveled to Berkeley, California and began writing an adaptation of Georg Büchner's Woyzeck for a modern-day Iranian setting. He went back to Iran later in 1970 to shoot Postchi (The Postman), which starred Nassirian, Entezami and Jaleh Sam. In the film, Nassirian plays Taghi, a miserable civil servant whose life spirals into chaos. He spends his days as an unhappy mail carrier and has two night jobs in order to pay his debts. His misery has caused impotence and he is experimented upon by an amateur herbalist who is one of his employers. His only naive hope is that he will win the national lottery. When he discovers that his wife is the mistress of his town's wealthiest landowner, Taghi escapes to the local forest where he experiences a brief moment of peace and harmony. His wife comes looking for him, and in a fit of rage Taghi murders her and is eventually caught for his crime. Postchi faced the same censorship issues as Gaav, but was eventually released in 1972. It was screened in Iran at the 1st Tehran International Film Festival and at the Sepas Film festival. Internationally it was screened at the Venice Film Festival, where it received a special mention, the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival, where it received the Interfilm Award, and the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight. In 1973 Mehrjui began directing what was to be his most acclaimed film, The Cycle Mehrjui got the idea for the film when a friend suggest that he investigate the black market and illicit blood traffic in Iran. Horrified with what he found, Mehrjui took the idea to Gholamhossein Sa'edi, who had written a play on the subject, "Aashghaal-duni". The play became the basis for the script, which then had to be approved by the Ministry of Culture before production could begin. With pressure from the Iranian medical community, approval was delayed for a year until Mehrjui began shooting the film in 1974. The film stars Saeed Kangarani, Esmail Mohammadi, Ezzatollah Entezami, Ali Nassirian and Fourouzan. In the film, Kangarani plays Ali, a teenager who has brought his dying father (Mohammadi) to Tehran in order to find medical treatment. They are too poor to afford any help from the local hospital, but Dr. Sameri (Entezami) offers them money in exchange for giving illegal and unsafe blood donations at a local blood bank. Ali begins giving blood and eventually works for Dr. Sameri in luring blood donors, despite spreading diseases in the process. Ali meets another doctor (Nassirian) who is attempting to establish a legitimate blood bank, and helps Dr. Sameri in sabotaging his plans. Ali also meets and becomes the lover of a young nurse, played by Fourouzan. As Ali becomes more and more involved in the illegal blood trafficking, his father's health worsens until he finally dies and Ali must decide what path his life will take. The films title, Dayereh mina, refers to a line from a poem by Hafiz Shirazi: "Because of the cycle of the universe, my heart is bleeding." The film was co-sponsored by the Ministry of Culture but encountered opposition from the Iranian medical establishment and was banned for three years. It was finally released in 1977, with help from pressure from the Carter administration to increase human rights and intellectual freedoms in Iran. Because of a crowded film marketplace, the film premiered in Paris, and then was released internationally where it received rave reviews and was compared to Luis Buñuel's Los Olvidados and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Accattone. The film won the Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique Prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 1978. During this time, Iran was going through great political changes. The events leading up to the Iranian Revolution of 1979 were causing a gradual loosening of strict censorship laws, which Mehrjui and other artists had great hopes for. While waiting for The Cycle to be released, Mehrjui worked on several documentaries. Alamut, a documentary on the Isamailis, was commissioned by Iranian National Television in 1974. He was also commissioned by the Iranian Blood Transfusion Center to create three short documentaries about safe and healthy blood donations. The films were used by the World Health Organization in several countries for years. In 1978, the Iranian Ministry of Health commissioned Mehrjui to make the documentary Peyvast kolieh, about kidney transplants.
After the Islamic revolution Mehrjui directed Hayat-e Poshti Madrese-ye Adl-e Afagh (The School We Went to) in 1980. The film stars Ezzatollah Entezami and Ali Nassirian and is from a story by Fereydoon Doostdar. The film was sponsored by the Iranian Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, whose filmmaking department was co-founded by Abbas Kiarostami. The film, seen as an allegory for the recent revolution, is about a group of high school students who join forces and rebel against their authoritative and abusive school principal. Film critic Hagir Daryoush criticized both the film and Mehrjui as propaganda and a work of the new regime more than Mehrjui himself. In 1981, Mehrjui and his family traveled to Paris and remained there for several years, along with several other Iranian refugees in France. During this time he made a feature-length semi-documentary about the poet Arthur Rimbaud for French TV, Voyage au Pays de Rimbaud in 1983. It was shown at the 1983 Venice Film Festival and at the 1983 London Film Festival. In 1985, Mehrjui and his family returned to Iran and Mehrjui resumed his film career under the new regime. In Hamoun (1990), a portrait of an intellectual whose life is falling apart, Mehrjui sought to depict his generation's post-revolutionary turn from politics to mysticism. Hamoon was voted the best Iranian film ever by readers and contributors to the Iranian journal Film Monthly. In 1995, Mehrjui made Pari, an unauthorized loose film adaptation of J. D. Salinger's book Franny and Zooey. Though the film could be distributed legally in Iran since the country has no official copyright relations with the United States, Salinger had his lawyers block a planned screening of the film at Lincoln Center in 1998. Mehrjui called Salinger's action "bewildering," explaining that he saw his film as "a kind of cultural exchange." His follow-up film, 1997's Leila, is a melodrama about an urban, upper-middle-class couple who learn that the wife is unable to bear children. Modern Iranian cinema begins with Dariush Mehrjui. Mehrjui introduced realism, symbolism, and the sensibilities of art cinema. His films have some resemblance with those of Rosselini, De Sica and Satyajit Ray, but he also added something distinctively Iranian, in the process starting one of the greatest modern film waves. The one constant in Mehrjui's work has been his attention to the discontents of contemporary, primarily urban, Iran. His film The Pear Tree (1999) has been hailed as the apotheosis of the director's examination of the Iranian bourgeoisie. Since his film The Cow in 1969, Mehrjui, along with Nasser Taqvai and Masoud Kimiai, has been instrumental in paving the way for the Iranian cinematic renaissance, so called the "Iranian New Wave."- Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (17 May 1900 - 3 June 1989), also known as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which saw the overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the end of the Persian monarchy. Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's first supreme leader, a position created in the constitution of the Islamic Republic as the highest-ranking political and religious authority of the nation, which he held until his death. Most of his period in power was taken up by the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988. He was succeeded by Ali Khamenei on 4 June 1989.
- Hossain Sabzian was an actor, known for Close-Up (1990), Trial (2003) and Kanoon (2015). He died on 29 September 2006 in Tehran, Iran.
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Abbas Ali Hatami was born in Tehran, Iran in 1944. He graduated from the College of Dramatic Arts and began his professional career as a writer of short TV screenplays and also as a playwright. Among his plays are: The Demon and the Bald Hassan, Adam and Eve, The Fisherman's Story, City of Oranges, Talisman and Silk. He began his professional film career in 1970 by writing and directing Hassan, the Bald (1970). In the following years, he developed a personal style that was characterized by melodious dialogue, traditional Iranian ambiance created through architecture and set design. His last film, World Champion Takhti, remained unfinished because of his death in 1996 due to cancer.- Director
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A former photographer, he turned to directing short subjects in the late 40s, soon acquiring an international reputation for the poetic quality of his short and medium-length films involving the fantasy world of children. Both his White Mane (1953) and The Red Balloon (1956) received a grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival, the latter also winning an American Academy Award. In the early 60s he turned to feature length films with considerably less success, then retreated to documentary shorts. He was killed in a helicopter crash while shooting a documentary near Teheran. That film, The Lovers' Wind (1978), a visually stunning helicopter tour of Iran, was later edited from his notes and was nominated for an Oscar as best feature documentary for the Academy Award ceremonies of 1979.- Actress
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Forouzan (also spelled Foroozan) was born in Bandar-e Anzali, Iran. She started her career by dubbing films. Her first movie was Sahel-e Entezar. She acted in many popular Iranian films and also worked with visionary directors of the Mowj-e Now, such as Dariush Mehrjui (Dayere-ye Mina) and Ali Hatami (Baba Shamal). She started her cinematic career as a voice-over actress. In 1964 she starred in Siamak Yasemi's Sahele Entezar, but it was Ganje Qarun, another film by Yasemi, that made her very famous. She co-starred in this film with Fardin. After Ganj-e Qarun Fardin and Forouzan made a golden cinematic couple and co-starred in some of the highest-grossing films of the era, known as Persian Films or Film Farsi (in Persian: Filme Farsi). Persian Film was the popular genre of movies produced in Iran before the Iranian revolution of 1979. Siamak Yasemi, Iraj Ghaderi, Shapur Gharib and Fereydun Goleh were some of the other famous directors that she collaborated with. After the 1979 revolution Forouzan was banned from playing in movies and grew more and more isolated. She rarely conducted interviews and died on 24 January 2016 in Tehran. After Forouzan's death, Persian-language websites and forums dedicated posts and articles in her memory. Her popularity remained intact despite not having acted in a new film since 1978.- Director
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Tony Zarindast was born in 1934 in Tabriz, Iran. He was a director and writer, known for Cat in the Cage (1978), The Guns and the Fury (1981) and Hardcase and Fist (1989). He died on 29 November 2016 in Tehran, Iran.- Actor
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Naser Malek Motiee was born on 29 March 1930 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor and director, known for A Perfect Gentleman (1965), Runaway Millionaire (1966) and Gheisar (1969). He died on 25 May 2018 in Tehran, Iran.- Actor
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Ezzatolah Entezami (also spell Ezatollah Entezami, born 1924 in Tehran, Iran) is an award-winning Iranian actor. Graduated from theater and cinema school in Hanover, Germany in 1958, Entezami started his career on stage in 1941. He has been acting in movies since 1969. His debut performance in Darius Mehrjui's admired classic film, The Cow(Gaav), received the Golden Hugo in Chicago International Film Festival in 1971. He shined in the role of a naive villager who cannot endure the death of his beloved cow and starts to believe that he is the cow himself.
He is known as one of the most prominent actors in Iranian cinema and has been labeled as the greatest actor in history of the cinema of Iran. He has worked with most of the prominent Iranian film directors, including Darius Mehrjui (eight films), Ali Hatami (four films), Nasser Taqvaee, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Behrouz Afkhami and Rakhshan Bani-Etemad. He has been awarded the Crystal Simorgh for the Best Actor twice from the International Fajr Film Festival, for Grand Cinema and The Day of Angel.
His work and accomplishments were recognized in October 2006 at the Iran cultural center in Paris.- Mohamad Ali Keshavarz was born on 15 April 1930 in Isfahan, Iran. He was an actor, known for Chess of the Wind (1976), Wolves (1988) and The imperilled (1983). He was married to Mona Taheri. He died on 14 June 2020 in Tehran, Iran.
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Mohamad Ali Fardin was born in 1930 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor and director, known for The Story of Night (1973), King of the Hearts (1968) and Hatam Taee (1966). He died on 6 April 2000 in Tehran, Iran.- Editor
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Farugh Farrokhzad was primarily a poet. Indeed, she is regarded as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century in Iran, which has a millennium of poetic tradition behind it. Although she only made one film, the 22 minute so-called documentary "The House is Black", this work is generally seen as the crucial precursor of the Iranian New Wave.- Actor
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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.- Mohammad Mosaddegh (16 June 1882 - 5 March 1967) was an Iranian politician who served as the 35th Prime Minister of Iran. An author, administrator, lawyer and parliamentarian, he was elected in 1951 by the 16th Iranian Majlis to the office of Prime Minister, his government came under scrutiny for ending the 1952 election before rural votes could be fully counted. He served into the 17th Iranian Majlis, when his government was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup D'État orchestrated by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom (MI6) and the United States (CIA), led by Kermit Roosevelt Jr.
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Saeed Kangarani was born in 1954 in Tehran, Iran. His best-known role was the role of the main actor/ Narrator Saeed in Daaee Jan Napoleon series aired in 1976. His excellent performance in Dar Emtedad Shab along with Googoosh is worth mentioning. For years he was mostly involved in TV series until the recent movie "Ezdevaj be sabke Irani" in 2006.- Iloosh Khoshabe was born in 1932 in Iran. He was an actor, known for The Seven Tasks of Ali Baba (1962), The Invincible Brothers Maciste (1964) and Vulcan, Son of Jupiter (1962). He died in 2012 in Tehran, Iran.
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Parvaneh Massoumi was born on 2 March 1945 in Tehran, Iran. She was an actress and production designer, known for Chrysanthemums (1985), Dowry for Robaab (1987) and Splendour of Life (1988). She died on 27 November 2023 in Iran.- Director
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Farajollah Salahshoor was an Iranian film director. He was born in 1952 in Qazvin. He began his career as an actor but later he directed several popular religious films and TV series including Ayoub e Payambar (film), The Men of Angelos (about Seven Sleepers) and Yousuf e Payambar (film). He had a conservative view and believed in Islamic cinema. He died of lung cancer on 27 February 2016.- Actor
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Khosro Shakibai was born on 27 March 1944 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor and writer, known for Hamoun (1990), Unruled Paper (2002) and Night Bus (2007). He was married to Parvin Kooshiar and Tania Johari. He died on 18 July 2008 in Tehran, Iran.- Actor
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Shahram Abdoli was born on 5 January 1974 in Miyaneh, Iran. He was an actor and director, known for Zang-e Akhar (2021), Chi Da (2022) and Serghat-e Adabi (2007). He died on 25 February 2023 in Mashhad, Iran.- Actor
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Amin Tarokh was born on 11 August 1953 in Shiraz, Iran. He was an actor and producer, known for Dead End of Trust (2017), Bon bast Vossoughi and Avicenna (1987). He died on 24 September 2022 in Tehran, Iran.- Director
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Born 1923 in Tabriz to a family of Armenian immigrants. Khachikian's father escaped the Armenian Genocide in 1915 and settled in Tabriz. His mother admired cinema and the arts and often took her children to the theater. Samuel Khachikian published his first poem "The Prison" in the Armenian newspaper Alik when he was nine. Five years later, he gave his first stage performance in Tabriz in a play titled "Seville". He completed his education in History and Journalism, and wrote eight plays which went on stage not only in different cities of Iran, but also in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Greece.
Khachikian made his first film in 1953, titled "The Return". He was among the first and few directors who used the decoupage technique on the film set, preparing the complete shooting script in advance. The success of his works attracted a lot of attention to the advantages of this filmmaking approach. As an innovative filmmaker, he turned the production of murder mysteries into a popular new wave in the Iranian filmmaking. He made the first ever movie trailer in the history of Iranian cinema for the movie "A Girl from Shiraz" in 1954. Some of his films such as "The Strike" and "The Eagles" were box office hits of their times.
Samuel's son Edwin Khachikian is a director in Tehran, Iran. Samuel's brother Souren Khachikian was also heavily involved in the production of his films. Souren's grandson Ara H. Keshishian is working as a film editor in Hollywood.
His 1956 film A Party in Hell was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival.
He died on October 22, 2001 at the age of seventy-eight.- Seyyed Bozorg Mahmoody was born in 1939 in Tehran, Iran. He was married to Betty Mahmoody. He died on 22 August 2009 in Tehran, Iran.
- Parvin Soleymani was born in 1922 in Tehran, Iran. She was an actress, known for Lucifer (1991), The Last Blood (1994) and Breathtaking (1979). She died on 1 June 2009 in Tehran, Iran.
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Ali Miri was born in 1936 in Shahsavar, Mazandaran, Iran. He was an actor and director, known for Iranian Ciccio and Franco (1969), The Story of Night (1973) and The Story of Hearts (1969). He died on 2 March 2009 in Tehran, Iran.- Actor
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Iraj Ghaderi was born in 1935 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor and director, known for Leilaj (1966), Sam and Nargess (2000) and Claws in the Dust (1997). He was married to Kobra Etminan. He died on 6 May 2012 in Tehran, Iran.- Actor
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Anoshirvan Arjmand was born in 1941 in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran. He was an actor and director, known for Ravayat-e Eshgh (1985), Duel (2004) and The Fifth Sun (2010). He died on 14 December 2014 in Tehran, Iran.- Director
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Sultan Ahmed was a director and producer, known for Daata (1989), Heera (1973) and Dharam Kanta (1982). He was married to Shammi and Farrah Dibaa Sultan Ahmed. He died on 22 May 2002 in Tehran, Iran.- Hamideh Kheirabadi was born on 20 December 1924 in Rasht, Iran. She was an actress, known for The Story of Night (1973), Hassan, the Bald (1970) and Golden Heel (1975). She died on 19 April 2010 in Tehran, Iran.
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Fereydun Gole was an Iranian screenwriter, film director, and film editor. He was active in producing urban drama films throughout the 1970s, dealing with such issues as the social stratification of Tehran. His most famous film was Beehive. After he died in 2005, the 2006 documentary film Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution was dedicated to him.- Actor
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Reza Arham Sadr was born on 2 May 1924 in Isfahan, Iran. He was an actor and art director, known for Khorshid miderakhshad (1956), Baby Dandy (1974) and Laj o lajbazi (1972). He died on 14 December 2008 in Isfahan, Iran.- Parviz Fanizadeh was an actor, known for Downpour (1972), Tight Spot (1973) and The Last Supper (1976). He was married to Haydeh Qayuri. He died on 24 February 1980 in Iran.
- Mehri Vadadian was born in 1926 in Iran. She was an actress, known for Nightingales (1988), Waiting for Demon (1987) and The Accused (1996). She died on 1 March 2011 in Tehran, Iran.
- Farimah Farjami was born on 8 May 1950 in Tehran, Iran. She was an actress, known for Narges (1992), The Last Act (1991) and The Lead (1989). She died on 30 June 2023 in Tehran, Iran.
- Sadegh Khalkhali was born on 27 July 1926 in Kivi, Ardabil Province, Iran. He died on 23 November 2003 in Tehran, Iran.
- Abbas Amiri was an actor, known for The Devil's Day (1994), The Crabs Attack (1992) and The Fateful Day (1995). He died on 26 February 2011 in Rasht, Iran.
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Kiumars Poorahmad was born on 16 December 1949 in Najafabad, Iran. He was a director and writer, known for Night Bus (2007), The Double Lottie (1996) and Where Are My Shoes? (2016). He was married to Mehraneh Rabi. He died on 5 April 2023 in Bandar-e Anzali, Gilan, Iran.- Actor
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Reza Davoudnejad was born on 19 May 1980 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor and producer, known for Bad Kids (2000), God's Jokes (2006) and Salve (2010). He was married to Ghazal Badiee. He died on 1 April 2024 in Sadra Hospital, Shiraz, Fars, Iran.- Actor
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Bahman Mofid was born on 27 July 1942 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor, known for Brothers in Blood (1975), Dash Akol (1971) and Black (1975). He was married to Sodabeh Karimi. He died on 16 August 2020 in Tehran, Iran.- Actor
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Taghi Zohuri was born in 1912 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor, known for Dalahoo (1967), The Black Suit Thief (1968) and Beggars of Tehran (1967). He died on 1 March 1992 in Tehran, Iran.- Hassan Brijany was born on 12 April 1961 in Iran. He was an actor, known for Ett öga rött (2007), Saltön (2005) and Exit (2006). He died in July 2020 in Iran.
- Ali Akbar Mahmoodzadeh Gorjestani, known as Sirus Gorjestani, was an Iranian actor. He had a second degree in arts from the Ministry of Culture and Arts.
Gorjestani started working in theater in 1970 and in television in 1977, and after that he was employed by the Ministry of Culture and Arts (now Ershad). After the revolution, he started his film career by acting in the movie "Faryad Mojahd" in 1979. He was also active in the field of sports and was a player of Shahin Football Club of Tehran for 4 years. - Actor
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Nosratollah Karimi was born on 22 December 1924 in Isfahan, Iran. He was an actor and director, known for The Interim Husband (1971), The Triple Bed (1972) and The Carriage Driver (1971). He was married to Parvin Teymouri. He died on 3 December 2019 in Tehran, Iran.- Reza Karam Rezai was an actor, known for Traveller of Rey (2001), The Interim Husband (1971) and Fellow Traveler (1975). He died on 3 April 2010 in Tehran, Iran.
- Nematollah Gorji (1926, Tehran - 2000, Tehran) was an Iranian theatre and film actor. Mr Gorji acted in at least 94 Iranian films, some of which have come to be ranked amongst the most celebrated Iranian films of the 1970s. His last role was that of an old and kind-hearted gardener-caretaker in The Pear Tree (Derakht-e Golaabi), 1998, directed by Dariush Mehrjui.
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Nosratolah Vahdat was born in 1925 in Isfahan, Iran. He was an actor and director, known for Yek Esfahani dar sarzamin-e Hitler (1976), The Nobody (1960) and Ki daste gol be ab dade? (1973). He was married to Forough Rajai. He died on 6 October 2020 in Tehran, Iran.- Director
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Masoud Rassam was a director and producer, known for Ali and Forest Giant (1990), Cinderella (2001) and Chagh o Laghar (1986). He was married to Fariba Naderi. He died on 1 November 2009 in Tehran, Iran.- Writer
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Kambuzia Partovi was born on 8 February 1956 in Rasht, Iran. He was a writer and director, known for Border Café (2005), The Truck (2018) and Naneh Lala va bacheharesh (1997). He was married to Nasrin Moradi and Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy. He died on 24 November 2020 in Tehran, Iran.