Jamshid Mashayekhi

Born: 1934-11-26

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.


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The Cow

as Abbas
Released: 1969-01-01

An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there,...

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Unruled Paper

as Roya's Teacher
Released: 2002-02-01

Unruled Paper is a 2002 Iranian film directed by Naser Taghva'i, based on an original script by...

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Gheysar

as Gheisar's uncle
Released: 1969-03-21

Gheysar returns home to find that his young sister has committed suicide and his older brother...

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A House Built on Water

as Dr. Latifian
Released: 2002-04-01

Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts...

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Prince Ehtejab

as Khosrow Khan aka "Prince Ehtejab"
Released: 1975-01-25

Prince Ehtejab, one of the last remaining heirs of the Qajar royal family, is suffering from...

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The Brick and the Mirror

as uncredited
Released: 1966-01-12

Hashem is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat of his cab one night after he...

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Desiderium

as Habib Agha Zoroof-chi
Released: 1977-11-24

Desiderium lyrically charts the hapless loves of a three brother: Majid, they young handicapped...

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The Sound of the Desert

as uncredited
Released: 1974-01-01

Osman Adi Beyk was shot dead by Haghighat. Moghan Khan took his son (Brazil) to his wife to...

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Honeymoon

as Khan Baba
Released: 1976-02-10

Reza and his mother Mah Banu, have a good and near relationship with Hossein family known as...

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Kamalolmolk

as Kamalolmolk
Released: 1984-11-09

The movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with...

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Alma

as uncredited
Released: 1992-04-01

An Iranian man has been separated from his daughter, who's been in Soviet Azerbaijan, for 20...

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The House of Spider

as uncredited
Released: 1983-04-01

Four persons, each of whom represents a particular aspect of a dependent society, hide in a...

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My Lady

as uncredited
Released: 2003-04-01

Years ago, two infants were born in a hospital at the same time. A little boy named Farhad, the...

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Pure White

as Self
Released: 2022-02-25

This documentary movie explores the professional life of Parviz Fanizadeh, Iranian actor of the...

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The Musketeer

as uncredited
Released: 1984-02-01

When an attempted breakout of a prisoner ends in mass bloodshed, a power struggle erupts between...

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The Spell

as uncredited
Released: 1987-01-01

A young couple accept an arranged marriage to stop the fighting between their respective clans....

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The Fateful Day

as uncredited
Released: 1995-02-01

As Abdollah prepares to get married to his long-time love, he hears calls for help during his...

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Tear and Smile

as uncredited
Released: 1995-01-01

Tear and Smile

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Javani ham alamai darad

as uncredited
Released: 1970-01-01

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My Child

as uncredited
Released: 2009-02-02

harming drama set in a rural area of post-war Iran. This heartwarming story follows a thoughtful...

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All Three, He Said

as uncredited
Released: 1981-01-01

A young man is released from prison. Three other prisoners who where his cellmates explain his...

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The Curse

as uncredited
Released: 1973-03-19

An old man who works for a landlord brings a young worker to paint the house for him. The old...

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Cheque

as Bahrami
Released: 2012-05-09

Despite their different characters and beliefs, four persons are obliged to spend two nights and...

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A Little Kiss

as uncredited
Released: 2005-12-14

Two old writers who one of them is returned to Iran after 38 years because of his son's suicide,...

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Chrysanthemum

as uncredited
Released: 1984-08-01

Abbas is set to be released after 20 years in prison But on the day of his release, Abbas...

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Water

as Towfigh
Released: 1975-02-25

Towfigh is a rich man who has a large number of barrels and carts to distribute water, and in...

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The father of other

as uncredited
Released: 2015-03-16

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Lollipop

as Morteza Phantom
Released: 1972-12-06

Morteza, a truck driver, is a family-oriented man but has a quick temper. His behavior has upset...

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Serpent’s Skin

as uncredited
Released: 1964-10-05

Based on D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and one of the pioneering films of the...

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Crime

as Morteza Afjehei
Released: 2011-05-24

Between years 1976-79 in Tehran, the story of Reza Sarcheshmeh, a man who does not want to...

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The Lead

as Mirza Mohsen
Released: 1989-02-01

Tehran, 1948. A young Jewish couple, Danial and his wife Munes, decide to immigrate to the...

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Faryad

as uncredited
Released: 1971-01-01

No description

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Punishment Committe

as Reza tofangchi
Released: 1997-01-01

In Tehran 1916 during first world war a group of patriots make a punishment committee to punish...

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The Iconoclast

as Fereshteh's Grandfather
Released: 1976-09-22

Ali cooperates with a group of thieves led by Jafar. Ali meets a girl named Fereshteh. Fereshteh...

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Fannizadeh

as Himself
Released:

Fanizadeh documentary is about the famous actor of Iranian cinema Parviz Fanizadeh. This...

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The Spring

as Woman's Lover
Released: 1973-02-14

A man who has fallen in love with a young woman discovers that she is the wife of his friend....

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Zabih

as Haj Samad
Released: 1975-02-02

Zabih, a tough guy who committed a murder in support of his girl, Aghdas is released from prison...

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Soutedel

as himself
Released: 2012-11-01

The most complete narrative of the 52 years of life of Iranian director Ali Hatami (1944-1996).

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Bi-hejab

as uncredited
Released: 1973-01-01

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Fish Die in Soil

as Seyyed Hossein Khadem
Released: 1977-03-21

Reza who is from a poor family and lives with his father in a rental room falls in love with a...

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Charlotte be bazarche miayad

as uncredited
Released: 1977-01-01

No despcrition

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A Candle in the Wind

as uncredited
Released: 2004-08-18

Roya, Farzins's mother, has left her husbands. As young Farzin quits university, accidentally he...

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Bitter Almonds

as uncredited
Released: 1998-04-01

Engineer "Zarin", the influential and creative member of Pars Electric Company finds out about...

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The Teacher without Master

as uncredited
Released: 2016-10-15

The Teacher without Master

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Pol

as uncredited
Released: 1971-01-01

Jalal who is a locomotive driver meets a girl Shirin in a village and falls in love with her....

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Thirteen 59

as uncredited
Released: 2011-06-29

What if you lived by the sea, and one day you stopped hearing the sound of the waves? What would...

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Motreb

as Eskandar
Released: 1972-01-01

A famous singer named Eskandar who killed his cousin out of love and served 15 years in prison...

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O Kaiser

as uncredited
Released: 1917-01-22

Kaiser is a short animated film, directed by the cartoonist Álvaro Marins, the Seth, in 1917. It...

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The Path of Glory

as uncredited
Released: 1995-05-20

The Tangfani Pump House (Tangfani Oil Transfer Center), which was bombed several times during...

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Good Fellas

as uncredited
Released: 2016-09-15

The story a famous old actor who has not played a movie for a long time.

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Abadan

as uncredited
Released: 2004-05-05

An old Iranian man disappears while searching for a friend who's been dead ten years, so his...

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Dada

as uncredited
Released: 1983-07-06

The cruel landlord is forcing the people to give him every girl of the village who wants to get...

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Once Upon a Time in Tehran

as Reza Khoshnevis
Released: 1999-07-15

The second feature film to be edited using footage from Hatami's miniseries Hezar Dastan.

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The Starless Sky

as uncredited
Released: 1971-01-01

No description

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Furious Men

as uncredited
Released: 1971-03-21

Ayaz who has a feud with Nasir's family makes a plan and manages to get their father arrested....

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The Grandfather

as uncredited
Released: 1986-04-01

A man decides to sell the old family house to move into a modern apartment in the suburbs, and...

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Being Farmanara

as (archive footage)
Released: 2006-01-01

This documentary looks at different aspects of the life of Bahman Farmanara, the well known...

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I am not Scrap

as uncredited
Released: 2014-07-23

The story of a woman who suffers from Alzheimer and her husband tries to recall a memory for her.

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The Gunman

as uncredited
Released: 1984-01-01

At the end of the reign, the country, the north, and the south are under strain to make foreign...

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Sunrise

as Doctor
Released: 1970-01-01

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After the silence

as himself
Released: 2002-09-01

Behind the scenes of the movie "Unruled Paper (2002)"

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The Enigma of the Shah

as uncredited
First aired: 2016-12-27

It is when Reza Shah forcefully leaves Iran to an unknown destination. Who will be the next...

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Hezar Dastan

as Reza Khoshnevis (Tofangchi)
First aired: 1988-01-01

Hezar-Dastan was an Iranian epic historical drama television series from 1987, developed and...

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The fall of Sahra

as uncredited
First aired: 1986-03-21

It describes the story of a couple, Sahra and Sasan, whose marriage had broken up with maternal...

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Tabriz dar meh

as uncredited
First aired: 2011-02-01

As the King stumbles along, he seems more interested in the pleasures of life in the palace than...

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