Jamshid Mashayekhi

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.

Birthday

Nov 26, 1934

Place of birth

Jajrood, Tehran, Iran

Deathday

Apr 2, 2019

Also known as

جمشید مشایخی

Credited in

As cast

Water
As Towfigh
Lollipop
As Morteza Phantom
The Sound of the Desert
As
Pure White
As Self
Tear and Smile
As
Bi-hejab
As
Charlotte be bazarche miayad
As
Dead End of Trust
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As Mostofi
The Musketeer
As
The Cow
As Abbas
Desiderium
As Habib Agha Zoroof-chi
Faryad
As
Being Farmanara
As (archive footage)
Gheisar
As Gheisar's Uncle
Javani ham alamai darad
As
Sky with No Stars
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As
The Gunman
As
Motreb
As Eskandar
Honeymoon
As Khan Baba
The Brick and the Mirror
As
The Starless Sky
As
Abadan
As
Unruled Paper
As Roya's Teacher
Prince Ehtejab
As Khosrow Khan aka "Prince Ehtejab"
The Spring
As Woman's Lover
Kamalolmolk
As Kamalolmolk
Zabih
As Haj Samad
The Curse
As
A Little Kiss
As
The Grandfather
As
Alma
As
Crime
As Morteza Afjehei
Punishment Committe
As Reza tofangchi
The Lead
As Mirza Mohsen
Fish Die in Soil
As Seyyed Hossein Khadem
Pol
As
Dada
As
I am not Scrap
As
Good Fellas
As
A Candle in the Wind
As
The House of Spider
As
All Three, He Said
As
Sunrise
As Doctor
A House Built on Water
As Dr. Latifian
The father of other
As
Furious Men
As
The Spell
As
The Fateful Day
As
Cheque
As Bahrami
Bitter Almonds
As
Once Upon a Time in Tehran
As Reza Khoshnevis
The Iconoclast
As Fereshteh's Grandfather
Thirteen 59
As
My Lady
As
Chrysanthemum
As
Serpent’s Skin
As
My Child
As
The Teacher without Master
As
Soutedel
As himself
After the silence
As himself
Fannizadeh
As Himself
The Path of Glory
As