Mohamad Ali Fardin

Personal Info

Birthday

February 4, 1931

Day of Death

2000-04-06

(69 years old)

Place of Birth

Tehran, Iran

Also Known As

محمد علی فردین

محمدعلی فردين

Mohamad-Ali Fardin

Mohamadali Fardin

محمدعلی فردین

Mohamad Ali Fardin

Biography

Mohammad Ali Fardin (Persian: محمدعلی فردین‎, 4 February 1931 – 6 April 2000) was an Prominent Iranian actor, film director and freestyle wrestler. Fardin was born and raised in a poor area in southern Tehran.

He was the eldest of three children.[1] After graduating from high school, Fardin joined the Air Force and became a freestyle wrestler in his twenties; he won a silver medal at the 1954 World Wrestling Championships and placed fourth in 1957. He was a popular lead actor in Iranian cinema, and was known by the title, King of Hearts, after his lead role in an Iranian film of the same title (Soltane Ghalbha).