Jamshid Mashayekhi
Born: 1934-11-26
• Jajrood, Tehran, Iran
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.
Filmography
Pure White
Dead End of Trust
The Teacher without Master
Good Fellas
The father of other
I am not Scrap
Soutedel
Cheque
Thirteen 59
Crime
My Child
Being Farmanara
A Little Kiss
A Candle in the Wind
Abadan
My Lady
After the silence
A House Built on Water
Unruled Paper
Once Upon a Time in Tehran
Bitter Almonds
Punishment Committe
The Path of Glory
The Fateful Day
Tear and Smile
Anxious
Alma
Galan
The Lead
The Spell
The Grandfather
The Rubble
Kamalolmolk
Chrysanthemum
The Musketeer
The Gunman
Dada
The House of Spider
All Three, He Said
Desiderium
Fish Die in Soil
Charlotte be bazarche miayad
The Iconoclast
Honeymoon
Water
Zabih
Prince Ehtejab
The Sound of the Desert
The Curse
The Spring
Bi-hejab
Lollipop
Sky with No Stars
Motreb
Furious Men
Faryad
The Starless Sky
Pol
Javani ham alamai darad
Sunrise
Qeysar
The Cow
The Brick and the Mirror
Serpent’s Skin
Fannizadeh
No Image
Malek Khatoon