Jamshid Mashayekhi

Personal Info

Birthday

November 26, 1934

Day of Death

2019-04-02

(84 years old)

Place of Birth

Jajrood, Tehran, Iran

Also Known As

جمشید مشایخی

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.

Known For

Hezar Dastan

The Cow

Zabih

Gheisar

Unruled Paper

Kamalolmolk

A House Built on Water

Desiderium

Filmography

2022
Pure White
as Self
2017
Dead End of Trust
as Mostofi
2012
Soutedel
as himself
Cheque
as Bahrami
2011
Crime
as Morteza Afjehei
2006
Being Farmanara
as (archive footage)
2002
After the silence
as himself
A House Built on Water
as Dr. Latifian
Unruled Paper
as Roya's Teacher
1999
Once Upon a Time in Tehran
as Reza Khoshnevis
1997
Punishment Committe
as Reza tofangchi
1989
The Lead
as Mirza Mohsen
1984
Kamalolmolk
as Kamalolmolk
1977
Desiderium
as Habib Agha Zoroof-chi
Fish Die in Soil
as Seyyed Hossein Khadem
1976
The Iconoclast
as Fereshteh's Grandfather
Honeymoon
as Khan Baba
1975
Water
as Towfigh
Zabih
as Haj Samad
Prince Ehtejab
as Khosrow Khan aka "Prince Ehtejab"
1973
The Spring
as Woman's Lover
1972
Lollipop
as Morteza Phantom
Motreb
as Eskandar
1970
Sunrise
as Doctor
1969
Gheisar
as Gheisar's Uncle
The Cow
as Abbas