Jamshid Mashayekhi
Birthday: 1934-11-26
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.
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Water
Towfigh is a rich man who has a large number of barrels and carts to distribute water, and in order ...
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Lollipop
Morteza, a truck driver, is a family-oriented man but has a quick temper. His behavior has upset his...
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The Sound of the Desert
Osman Adi Beyk was shot dead by Haghighat. Moghan Khan took his son (Brazil) to his wife to raise hi...
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Pure White
This documentary movie explores the professional life of Parviz Fanizadeh, Iranian actor of the 60s ...
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Dead End of Trust
It's a simple story of fondness. "Dead End of Trust" tells the story of a love - from inside - a lov...
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The Musketeer
When an attempted breakout of a prisoner ends in mass bloodshed, a power struggle erupts between the...
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The Cow
An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the c...
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Desiderium
Desiderium lyrically charts the hapless loves of a three brother: Majid, they young handicapped brot...
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Being Farmanara
This documentary looks at different aspects of the life of Bahman Farmanara, the well known Iranian ...
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Sky with No Stars
Heshmat runs the factory of his wife who has a heart disease and is unhappy with his wife's decision...
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The Gunman
At the end of the reign, the country, the north, and the south are under strain to make foreign prov...
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Motreb
A famous singer named Eskandar who killed his cousin out of love and served 15 years in prison is re...
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Honeymoon
Reza and his mother Mah Banu, have a good and near relationship with Hossein family known as Khan Ba...
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The Brick and the Mirror
Hashem is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat of his cab one night after he give...
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Abadan
An old Iranian man disappears while searching for a friend who's been dead ten years, so his agitate...
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Unruled Paper
Royaa, mother of two children, tries to follow her dream of becoming a writer, while her life and re...
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Prince Ehtejab
Prince Ehtejab, one of the last remaining heirs of the Qajar royal family, is suffering from tubercu...
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The Spring
A man who has fallen in love with a young woman discovers that she is the wife of his friend. When h...
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Kamalolmolk
The movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with various k...
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Zabih
Zabih, a tough guy who committed a murder in support of his girl, Aghdas is released from prison aft...
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The Curse
An old man who works for a landlord brings a young worker to paint the house for him. The old landlo...
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A Little Kiss
Two old writers who one of them is returned to Iran after 38 years because of his son's suicide, are...
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Alma
An Iranian man has been separated from his daughter, who's been in Soviet Azerbaijan, for 20 years. ...
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The Grandfather
A man decides to sell the old family house to move into a modern apartment in the suburbs, and at th...
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Crime
Between years 1976-79 in Tehran, the story of Reza Sarcheshmeh, a man who does not want to compromis...
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Punishment Committe
In Tehran 1916 during first world war a group of patriots make a punishment committee to punish the ...
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The Lead
Tehran, 1948. A young Jewish couple, Danial and his wife Munes, decide to immigrate to the recently ...
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Fish Die in Soil
Reza who is from a poor family and lives with his father in a rental room falls in love with a girl ...
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Pol
Jalal who is a locomotive driver meets a girl Shirin in a village and falls in love with her. They d...
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Dada
The cruel landlord is forcing the people to give him every girl of the village who wants to get marr...
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I am not Scrap
The story of a woman who suffers from Alzheimer and her husband tries to recall a memory for her....
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A Candle in the Wind
Roya, Farzins's mother, has left her husbands. As young Farzin quits university, accidentally he mee...
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The House of Spider
Four persons, each of whom represents a particular aspect of a dependent society, hide in a villa lo...
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All Three, He Said
A young man is released from prison. Three other prisoners who where his cellmates explain his polit...
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A House Built on Water
Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the s...
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Furious Men
Ayaz who has a feud with Nasir's family makes a plan and manages to get their father arrested. Nasir...
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The Spell
A young couple accept an arranged marriage to stop the fighting between their respective clans. On t...
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The Fateful Day
As Abdollah prepares to get married to his long-time love, he hears calls for help during his weddin...
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Cheque
Despite their different characters and beliefs, four persons are obliged to spend two nights and one...
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Bitter Almonds
Engineer "Zarin", the influential and creative member of Pars Electric Company finds out about curre...
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The Iconoclast
Ali cooperates with a group of thieves led by Jafar. Ali meets a girl named Fereshteh. Fereshteh gra...
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Once Upon a Time in Tehran
The second feature film to be edited using footage from Hatami's miniseries Hezar Dastan....
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Thirteen 59
What if you lived by the sea, and one day you stopped hearing the sound of the waves? What would you...
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My Lady
Years ago, two infants were born in a hospital at the same time. A little boy named Farhad, the firs...
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Chrysanthemum
Abbas is set to be released after 20 years in prison But on the day of his release, Abbas dies.Abbas...
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Serpent’s Skin
Based on D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and one of the pioneering films of the Iranian Ne...
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My Child
harming drama set in a rural area of post-war Iran. This heartwarming story follows a thoughtful you...
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Soutedel
The most complete narrative of the 52 years of life of Iranian director Ali Hatami (1944-1996)....
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Fannizadeh
Fanizadeh documentary is about the famous actor of Iranian cinema Parviz Fanizadeh. This documentar...
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The Path of Glory
The Tangfani Pump House (Tangfani Oil Transfer Center), which was bombed several times during the Ir...
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