Jamshid Mashayekhi

Acting

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.

Acting credits

The Grandfather poster
8.0

A man decides to sell the old family house to move into a modern apartment in the suburbs, and at the same time decides to send his father to a nursing home.

The Grandfather

1986

Kamalolmolk poster
7.2

The movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with various kings.

Kamalolmolk

1984

Furious Men poster
NR

Ayaz who has a feud with Nasir's family makes a plan and manages to get their father arrested. Nasir decides to get revenge but is send away from the city. He meets a valiant and becomes his disciple learning his work. When he returns home he goes after Ayaz and his daughter to take revenge on them

Furious Men

1971

Desiderium poster
6.8

Desiderium lyrically charts the hapless loves of a three brother: Majid, they young handicapped brother with a deformed head falls in love with Aghdas, a prostitute hired by his eldest brother Habib to entertain him, not knowing the truth about her profession. Karim, the middle brother is so infatuated with a quail that he almost completely ignores his wife and her emotions. Habib himself is in love with Foroogh, a tailor lady who lives with them, while his sense of responsibility about Majid keeps him from requiting her affections.

Desiderium

1977

The Lead poster
6.0

Tehran, 1948. A young Jewish couple, Danial and his wife Munes, decide to immigrate to the recently founded state of Israel. But their application is rejected on the ground of the documents against Danial's uncle, Yaghub, how is suspected of betrayal. A Zionist agent, named Yezghel, finds out Yaghub's home and stabs him. One of Yaghub's neighbours who witnesses the crime is blamed for murder. Fearing for their lives, Munes and Danial escape to the north of Iran in order to leave the country. The Neighbour's brother, Nuri, a journalist, sets off on their heels to bring them to the court to give testimony on his brother's innocence.

The Lead

1989

The Teacher without Master poster
NR

The Teacher without Master

The Teacher without Master

2016

The Fateful Day poster
7.4

As Abdollah prepares to get married to his long-time love, he hears calls for help during his wedding and leaves the ceremony for an adventure to find the truth.

The Fateful Day

1995

Honeymoon poster
5.3

Reza and his mother Mah Banu, have a good and near relationship with Hossein family known as Khan Baba. Reza spends his time with Changiz, the son of Hossein family, and is interested in his sister, Mino.

Honeymoon

1976

No artwork available
NR

After her husband’s death, Malek Khatoon returns to her ancestral village to rebuild her father’s destroyed dye workshop. Defying a powerful factory owner and a fearful community, her resistance sparks a quiet uprising.

Malek Khatoon

Cheque poster
5.0

Despite their different characters and beliefs, four persons are obliged to spend two nights and one whole day together as they are going to have their shares after cashing a check.

Cheque

2012

Zabih poster
4.8

Zabih, a tough guy who committed a murder in support of his girl, Aghdas is released from prison after 15 years. When arrested, Aghdas was pregnant with his child. Now Zabih sets off for his hometown to find Aghdas and their son.

Zabih

1975

The Rubble poster
NR

A wealthy man summons his sons and their wives to divide his inheritance among them before his death. While he is preaching to his children and daughters-in-law in the basement of the house, he dies, and at the same moment as his death, an earthquake blocks the exit from the basement.

The Rubble

1985

Crime poster
3.5

Between years 1976-79 in Tehran, the story of Reza Sarcheshmeh, a man who does not want to compromise on his believes. He is imprisoned and then after 2 years released but involved in the Islamic Revolution.

Crime

2011

Punishment Committe poster
6.5

In Tehran 1916 during first world war a group of patriots make a punishment committee to punish the traitors. With the lead of Abolfatooh Mirza, Reza Tofangchi begins the assassinations.

Punishment Committe

1997

Abadan poster
NR

An old Iranian man disappears while searching for a friend who's been dead ten years, so his agitated daughter enlists her estranged husband to look for him; the husband puts his foot down at first but soon finds himself cruising the streets of Tehran with his best friend, searching for the old rascal and cursing all the way.

Abadan

2004

A Little Kiss poster
6.3

Two old writers who one of them is returned to Iran after 38 years because of his son's suicide, are going on a trip to the grave of that son.

A Little Kiss

2005

The Cow poster
7.7

An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.

The Cow

1969

Sunrise poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sunrise

1970

Anxious poster
NR

Hossein, who is about to marry his cousin Fereshteh for the second time, suddenly finds out that his long-lost son Reza is actually alive and living with his old friend Ahmad and Ahmad's wife, Maryam.

Anxious

1994

همه چیز آنجاست poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

همه چیز آنجاست

2014

Qeysar poster
6.9

A young man's drive to avenge for his sister and brother.

Qeysar

1969

The Curse poster
4.0

An old man who works for a landlord brings a young worker to paint the house for him. The old landlord is alcoholic and has a young wife and together they manage a ranch. Little by little ...

The Curse

1973

The Sound of the Desert poster
8.0

Osman Adi Beyk was shot dead by Haghighat. Moghan Khan took his son (Brazil) to his wife to raise him like his own child.

The Sound of the Desert

1974

Galan poster
NR

"The young 'Yarvaran' , following the fall of his once-invincible father from a horse, takes on the responsibility of caring for and emotionally rehabilitating his father's shattered personality, as well as managing their life. He becomes a devoted nurse and sincere encourager until he finally succeeds in helping his father to mount the horse again and participate in the competition."

Galan

1991