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- Born to an aristocrat family, Hedayat studied at the French high school in Tehran and then went to Europe to study dentistry which he later abandoned. He wrote many short stories, novels, and some satirical materials. His most famous book is the novella "The Blind Owl". Hedayat committed suicide by gassing himself in Paris, and is buried at Pere Lachaise cemetery.
- Editor
- Director
- Actress
Farugh Farrokhzad was primarily a poet. Indeed, she is regarded as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century in Iran, which has a millennium of poetic tradition behind it. Although she only made one film, the 22 minute so-called documentary "The House is Black", this work is generally seen as the crucial precursor of the Iranian New Wave.- Mohammad Mosaddegh (16 June 1882 - 5 March 1967) was an Iranian politician who served as the 35th Prime Minister of Iran. An author, administrator, lawyer and parliamentarian, he was elected in 1951 by the 16th Iranian Majlis to the office of Prime Minister, his government came under scrutiny for ending the 1952 election before rural votes could be fully counted. He served into the 17th Iranian Majlis, when his government was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup D'État orchestrated by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom (MI6) and the United States (CIA), led by Kermit Roosevelt Jr.
- Gholam-Reza Takhti was born on 27 August 1930 in Tehran, Iran. He died on 7 January 1968 in Tehran, Iran.
- Harold Nicolson was born on 21 November 1886 in Tehran, Iran. He was married to Vita Sackville-West. He died on 1 May 1968 in Sissinghurst Castle, Kent, England, UK.
- Jalal Al-Ahmad was born on 2 December 1923 in Tehran, Iran. Jalal was a writer, known for The Shadow (1990) and Dirty Hands (1998). Jalal died on 9 September 1969 in Tehran, Iran.
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the last Shah of Iran, his reign lasted from 1941 until his overthrow in 1979. He was educated in Switzerland and was familiar with the western ideas. In 1941, Britain and USSR occupied Iran and forced Reza Shah the Great to resign in favor of his son. Later the young Shah became the most important ally to the West in the Middle East.
With Iran's great oil wealth, the Shah became the pre-eminent leader of the Middle East, and Guardian of the Persian Gulf. He abolished the multi-party system of government such that he could rule through a one-party regime in autocratic fashion. He made major changes to curb certain ancient elite factions by breaking up all large and middle-sized estates for the benefit of more than six million small farmers. In what was called 'the White Revolution', he took a number of populist measures, including extending suffrage to women, to favor the people. He instituted exams for Islamic theologians to become established priests ("Mullahs"), which were widely unpopular and broke centuries old religious traditions.
His policies led to strong economic growth during the 1960s and 1970s but at the same time, opposition to his autocratic rule increased. On January 18, 1979, he and his family left Iran after over a year of uprising as he didn't want for a civil war to break out in the country. Following the Shah's departure, conservative Muslims led by Ayatollah Khomeini who had returned from exile, staged a revolution. And abolished the monarchy and unfortunately established an Islamic Republic that ruined the country and led to the pointless eight year Iran-Iraq war in which both countries suffered an incredible amount of unnecessary losses.
At the same time, The Shah's cancer had worsened and after over a year of exile, in which traveling from country to country seeking what he hoped to be a temporary residence. He was finally welcomed by President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, and remained there until his death on June 27, 1980. He is interred at Al-Refai Mosque in Egypt. - Director
- Writer
- Actor
Mushegh Sarvari was born on 15 February 1910 in Tehran, Iran. He was a director and writer, known for A Party in Hell (1956), Shahname akharesh khoshe (1966) and Mahtabe khoonin (1955). He was married to Jenia Movsesian and Jenia Movsisian. He died on 13 August 1981 in Tehran, Iran.- Mario Formenton was born on 21 April 1928 in Tehran, Iran. He was married to Cristina Mondadori. He died on 29 March 1987 in Villejuif, Val-de-Marne, Île-de-France, France.
- Paula Vernay was born on 8 June 1933 in Tehran, Iran. She was an actress, known for Passport to Danger (1954). She was married to Dean Hargrove and Robert Verdier. She died on 29 November 1988 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
- Actor
- Music Department
Taghi Zohuri was born in 1912 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor, known for Dalahoo (1967), The Black Suit Thief (1968) and Beggars of Tehran (1967). He died on 1 March 1992 in Tehran, Iran.- Actor
- Music Department
Hossein Sarshar was one of Iran's most famous Opera singers. He was graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Tehran and continued his post-secondary education in France. After the revolution Sarshar secretly joined the Iranian Resistance and was sent to prison and was tortured there. Finally in the day he was released from prison was killed in a car accident! Years later it became known that he was killed in a series of serial killings by the IRI intelligence ministry.- Music Department
- Composer
- Actress
Giti Pashayi was born on 13 June 1948 in Tehran, Iran. She was a composer and actress, known for The Bondwoman (1974), The Lead (1989) and Journey of the Stone (1978). She was married to Masud Kimiai. She died on 7 May 1995 in Tehran, Iran.- Director
- Writer
Reza Abdoh was born on 23 February 1963 in Tehran, Iran. He was a director and writer, known for The Blind Owl (1992). He died on 11 May 1995 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
- Director
Gholamhossein Naghshineh was born in 1903 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor and director, known for The Patriot (1953), Ghorboone khodam (1963) and First Lawyer (1988). He died on 7 June 1996 in Tehran, Iran.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Abbas Ali Hatami was born in Tehran, Iran in 1944. He graduated from the College of Dramatic Arts and began his professional career as a writer of short TV screenplays and also as a playwright. Among his plays are: The Demon and the Bald Hassan, Adam and Eve, The Fisherman's Story, City of Oranges, Talisman and Silk. He began his professional film career in 1970 by writing and directing Hassan, the Bald (1970). In the following years, he developed a personal style that was characterized by melodious dialogue, traditional Iranian ambiance created through architecture and set design. His last film, World Champion Takhti, remained unfinished because of his death in 1996 due to cancer.- Editor
- Sound Department
- Director
Rouhollah Emami was born on 26 February 1941 in Tehran, Iran. He was an editor and director, known for The Spell (1987), The Stone Lion (1987) and Dead End (1977). He died on 15 November 1999 in Tehran, Iran.- Nematollah Gorji (1926, Tehran - 2000, Tehran) was an Iranian theatre and film actor. Mr Gorji acted in at least 94 Iranian films, some of which have come to be ranked amongst the most celebrated Iranian films of the 1970s. His last role was that of an old and kind-hearted gardener-caretaker in The Pear Tree (Derakht-e Golaabi), 1998, directed by Dariush Mehrjui.
- Actor
- Director
- Producer
Mohamad Ali Fardin was born in 1930 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor and director, known for The Story of Night (1973), King of the Hearts (1968) and Hatam Taee (1966). He died on 6 April 2000 in Tehran, Iran.- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Mohammad Ali Zarandi was born in 1925 in Tehran. He was a director and actor, known for The Stars Shine (1960), Rooz-haye tarik-e yek madar (1967) and Akbar's Passage (1972). He died on 25 April 2000.- Writer
- Director
- Additional Crew
Ahmad Shamlu was born on 12 December 1925 in Tehran, Iran. He was a writer and director, known for Hot Shame (1965), Hame-sar harif (1965) and Dead End (1965). He died on 24 July 2000 in Mehr Hospital, Tehran, Iran.- Princess Leila Pahlavi was born on 27 March 1970 in Tehran, Iran. She died on 10 June 2001 in London, England, UK.
- Rashid Aslani was born in 1931 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor, known for Tramp (1972), What's Up? (1992) and I Love the Earth (1994). He died on 20 August 2002.
- David King-Wood was born on 12 September 1913 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor, known for Jamboree! (1957), The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) and Don Juan (1946). He died on 3 September 2003 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Director
- Art Director
- Producer
Farima Farrahi was born in 1953 in Tehran, Iran. Farima was a director and art director, known for First Children (1999). Farima died on 4 November 2003 in the USA.- Writer
- Director
- Editor
Fereydun Gole was an Iranian screenwriter, film director, and film editor. He was active in producing urban drama films throughout the 1970s, dealing with such issues as the social stratification of Tehran. His most famous film was Beehive. After he died in 2005, the 2006 documentary film Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution was dedicated to him.- Malihe Nasiri was born in 1931 in Tehran, Persia. She was an actress, known for Baby Dandy (1974), Ghorboone khodam (1963) and A Hut across the River (1971). She died on 10 March 2006 in Tehran, Iran.
- Poopak Goldarre was born in 1971 in Tehran, Iran. She was an actress, known for The End of the Game (2001), Nargess (2006) and Cinderella (2001). She died on 16 March 2006 in Tehran, Iran.
- Hossein Kasbian was born in 1933 in Tehran, Persia. He was an actor, known for The Hostage (1996), The Musketeer (1984) and The Case (1983). He died on 4 May 2006 in Tehran, Iran.
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Amir Shervan, was born Amir Hosein Ghaffar in Tehran, Iran on May 24, 1929. In the U.S. he is mostly known for directing the movies Hollywood cop and Samurai Cop but was better known in Iran for his directing, writing and acting in numerous films.
Shervan studied theater in Pasadena California in the 1940s and returned to Iran to begin his career in film. During the 1979 Iranian Revolution all movies were subject to review by the Iranian government and many of them banned due to their content while others were "purified" or altered to suit the growing anti-western and pro-Islamic sentiment. This caused a pause in his film career starting in 1980 and ending with his move to the United States where he settled in California to begin his work on Hollywood Cop. He apparently received a social security number in Alabama but it is unclear how long he was there or for what purpose.
On the set Shervan used improvisational acting and dialog often, in part due to this technique having cultural roots and later due to English being his second language. He often worked with actors/directors/writers in Iran who were never educated in film making, many of which had never graduated high school. His Iranian audience of the 1950s to 1980 was therefore accustomed to a much lower standard than the average U.S. viewer of the late 1980s. This combination of circumstances made for a large degree of accidental humor and bloopers as perceived by his new viewer base and also led to his post-mortem success as a cult-classic b-movie director. Ironically, Shervan was one of the more polished and educated filmmakers of his time in Iran and was respected as such.
He died on November 1, 2006 at age 77 soon before his rise in popularity in the U.S. as a b-movie director. He is survived by a son named Ben Shervan.- Composer
- Actor
- Music Department
Babak Bayat was born on 13 June 1946 in Tehran, Iran. He was a composer and actor, known for The Spell (1987), The Ship Angelica (1989) and Hassan, the Bald (1970). He died on 26 November 2006 in Tehran, Iran.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Rasool Mollagholi Poor was born in 1955 in Tehran, Iran. He was a director and writer, known for The Flight in the Night (1987), Hiva (1999) and The Possessed (1990). He died on 5 March 2007 in Nowshahr, Iran.- Ebrahim Naderi was born in 1936 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor, known for Bandari (1973), Dash Akol (1971) and Molla Mammad Jan (1971). He died on 5 May 2007 in Tehran, Iran.
- Actor
- Music Department
Hamid Ghanbari was born on 15 April 1924 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor, known for Three Fugitives (1969), Gypsy's Love (1969) and Rainbow (1971). He died on 29 September 2007 in Tehran, Iran.- Garshasb Raoufi was born in 1933 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor, known for Border (1996), The Wedding Commotion (1970) and Gharoon's sons (1969). He died on 8 December 2007 in Tehran, Iran.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Rasool Ahadi was born on 12 January 1961 in Tehran, Iran. Rasool was a cinematographer, known for The Attack on H3 (1995), The Execution (1986) and Scorpion (1996). Rasool died on 1 January 2008 in Karaj, Iran.- Nader Khalili was born on 22 February 1936 in Tehran, Iran. He was a writer, known for Making of a Dream (2009), Earth Turns to Gold (2009) and Design with Nature (2009). He was married to Iliona Khalili. He died on 5 March 2008 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Music Department
- Composer
Shusha Guppy was born on 24 December 1935 in Tehran, Iran. She was a composer, known for People of the Wind (1976), Bakhtiari Migration: The Sheep Must Live (1973) and The Great Western Musical Thunderbox (1974). She was married to Nicholas Guppy. She died on 21 March 2008 in London, England, UK.- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
Shahrokh Sakhai was born in 1953 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor, known for Killing Mad Dogs (2001), Battle of Oil Tankers (1994) and All the Temptations of the Earth (1989). He died on 22 March 2008 in Tehran, Iran.- Writer
- Director
- Composer
Nader Ebrahimi was born on 2 April 1936 in Tehran, Iran. He was a writer and director, known for The Sound of the Desert (1974), The Day the Air Stood Still (1998) and Fire without Smoke (1975). He died on 5 June 2008 in Tehran, Iran.- Actor
- Writer
Khosro Shakibai was born on 27 March 1944 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor and writer, known for Hamoun (1990), Unruled Paper (2002) and Night Bus (2007). He was married to Parvin Kooshiar and Tania Johari. He died on 18 July 2008 in Tehran, Iran.- Parvin Soleymani was born in 1922 in Tehran, Iran. She was an actress, known for Lucifer (1991), The Last Blood (1994) and Breathtaking (1979). She died on 1 June 2009 in Tehran, Iran.
- Yvonne D'Angers was born on 2 September 1944 in Tehran, Iran. She was an actress, known for Ground Zero (1973), Sappho Darling (1968) and The Seven Minutes (1971). She was married to Voss Boreta. She died on 10 June 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Jamshid Sheibani was born on 26 May 1925 in Tehran, Iran. He was a producer and director, known for Molla Mammad Jan (1971), White Gold (1962) and Ghanoune zendegi (1964). He was married to Mina Panahpour. He died on 2 July 2009 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Seyyed Bozorg Mahmoody was born in 1939 in Tehran, Iran. He was married to Betty Mahmoody. He died on 22 August 2009 in Tehran, Iran.
- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Additional Crew
Jamshid Layegh was born in 1931 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Nightingales (1988), The Accused (1996) and Killing Mad Dogs (2001). He died on 12 November 2009 in Tehran, Iran.- Amir Vahedi was born in 1961 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor, known for All In (2006), World Series of Poker (2003) and National Heads-Up Poker Championship (2006). He died on 8 January 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
- Razmik Aroyan was born on 15 October 1947 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor, known for Tchermak anurjner (1985), Yot sarits ayn koghm (1980) and Yerkunq (1977). He died on 8 September 2010 in Yerevan, Armenia.
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Esmaeil Riyahi was born on 1 August 1920 in Tehran, Iran. He was a director and writer, known for Woman and Her Dolls (1965), The Devil is Knocking (1964) and The Glory of Gallantry (1968). He was married to Shahla Riahi. He died on 11 November 2010 in Tehran, Iran.- Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi was born on 28 July 1966 in Tehran, Iran. He died on 4 January 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.