Jamshid Mashayekhi(1934-2019)
- Actor
- Producer
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.
