Behrouz Vossoughi

Acting

Behrouz Vossoughi

Born

1938-03-10 (88)

Place of birth

Khoy, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran

Known for

Acting

Credits

62 titles

Behrouz Vossoughi is one of Iran's most legendary actors. He has over 40 years of experience in the motion picture industry, with featured appearances in more than 90 films. In addition to his work in films, television, radio and theater, Behrouz' performances have earned him recognition at several international film festivals. He was one of the first to play in American and European Co-Productions such as inCaravans (1978) in 1978 co-starring with Anthony Quinn, Jennifer O'Neill (I) andMichael Sarrazin. He was also to play in another American movie called The Invincible Six (1970) with Curd Jürgens in 1962. His major films were, of course, Iranian. In Iran, he is still truly a Mega Star and…

Known for

Falcon Crest poster
5.6

Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.

Falcon Crest

1981

T. J. Hooker poster
6.5

Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolling the streets and training recruits. Along with his young partners in blue, Hooker take on Lake City's toughest criminals.

T. J. Hooker

1982

Bank Robber poster
NR

The thief, who looks a lot like the bank manager, after a long time of tracking and planning a precise scheme, introduces himself as the manager and robs the bank's safe. But he fails to execute the plan and gets caught by the police.

Bank Robber

1965

Caravans poster
5.8

This epic adventure-drama based on James Michener's best-selling novel concerns a young American embassy official who is sent into the Middle-Eastern desert to find the missing daughter of a US Senator. The young woman has left her husband, a Colonel in the Shadom - she was his number two wife - and has opted for the lifestyle of a nomadic tribe. When the diplomat locates the girl he joins the caravan and attempts to persuade the girl to return.

Caravans

1978

Sphinx poster
5.7

Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs - murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse!

Sphinx

1981

Rhino Season poster
5.3

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.

Rhino Season

2012

Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

Rhino Season poster
5.3

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.

Rhino Season

2012

No artwork available
NR

Although this film includes conversations with people, it is not in the form of an interview and consists of three parts. The first part introduces the personality and activities of Dariush Asadzadeh in cinema, theater and television. In this part, the camera is constantly moving and creates an atmosphere. The second part is dedicated to the conversations of people such as Ali Nasirian, Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, Akbar Abdi, Aminollah Rashidi, Behrouz Vosoughi, Nosratollah Vahdat and many artists who have worked with this artist over the years. The third part of the film is dedicated to reviewing his memories, which gives this part of the film a nostalgic feel. The effort to be attractive is the main thing in making this film.

Zendegi Va Digar Hich

2017

Behrouz: A Legend on Screen poster
NR

Behrouz Vossoughi, legendary Iranian actor, leaves his country just before the revolution in 1978, and he could never return to his homeland. This is the story of his journey, living in exile.

Behrouz: A Legend on Screen

2017

Filmfarsi poster
2.0

A found-footage essay, Filmfarsi salvages low budget thrillers and melodramas suppressed following the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Filmfarsi

2019

Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses poster
2.8

An examination of the work and lives of actresses in the Iranian film industry prior to the 1979 revolution, featuring myriad interviews and rare film clips.

Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses

2016

2000s · 2 titles

1970s · 29 titles

Caravans poster
5.8

This epic adventure-drama based on James Michener's best-selling novel concerns a young American embassy official who is sent into the Middle-Eastern desert to find the missing daughter of a US Senator. The young woman has left her husband, a Colonel in the Shadom - she was his number two wife - and has opted for the lifestyle of a nomadic tribe. When the diplomat locates the girl he joins the caravan and attempts to persuade the girl to return.

Caravans

1978

Cat in the Cage poster
3.8

A young man returns to his rich family's estate after a stay in a mental hospital. He finds that his father has married his deceased wife's nurse, who is secretly plotting with her lover

Cat in the Cage

1978

Mamal Amricayi poster
5.7

A Young guy (Behrouz Vossoughi) who is dreaming to go to America is trying to manage the money by stealing it, then one day he meets a wealthy girl (Gogoosh).

Mamal Amricayi

1975

Baluch poster
3.9

Two gangster squads who smuggle antiques fight each other in Zahedan. The first squad's members manage to kill the members of the other squad. Two villains of them rape a woman Leila who is the wife of a man his name Baluch and escape to Tehran. He pursues them and shots them. While thinking that he had killed them, he surrender to the police and imprisoned for 12 years. When released from the prison he finds that they are not dead. He goes after them and kills both of them.

Baluch

1972

The Invincible Six poster
3.2

Based on the story "The Heroes of Yucca," The Invincible Six features a ragtag group of jewel thieves who become the unofficial guardians of a small Iranian village. When bandits attack the village, looking for the body of their former leader and his treasure map, the Invincible Six are there to save the day, wooing the local females and frustrating the new leader of the bandits.

The Invincible Six

1970

Leyli and Majnoon poster
2.0

This Iranian drama tells the tragic love story of Leyli and Majnoon, whose intense passion leads to suffering and separation.

Leyli and Majnoon

1970

The Compromise poster
3.7

A thief accidentally overhears a phone call in which the caller lies to his wife while cheating on her. Thief decides to blackmail him.

The Compromise

1974

The Window poster
5.5

Sohrab is going from his city Abadan to work in his uncle's factory in Tehran. Sohrab meets a girl Taraneh who is pregnant. She with the help of Asghar Zhila wants to accused Sohrab of ...

The Window

1971

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

Tight Spot poster
5.7

This film, based on a well-known novel of the same name by Sadegh Chooback, is about a wronged man seeking revenge. Director Amir Naderi's inspiration for making the film was one of his childhood heroes, the legendary Zar Mohammad, who waged a one-man war against four swindlers and provoked wide spread popular sentiment against tyranny.

Tight Spot

1973

Desiderium poster
6.7

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 Soil poster
4.8

After the death of the landlord of the village, his European wife demands the land of Baba Sobhan but his two sons who farm there are refusing. They promise to pay the rent on the right ...

The Soil

1973

The ring-necked dove poster
5.3

Seyed Morteza, a pigeon fancier, lives in Kashan with his blind mother. He captures a ring-necked dove that all the local dove fanciers are after. His mother considers the dove a bad omen and asks Seyed Morteza to let it go. Meanwhile, Seyed Morteza’s uncle, Seyed Mostafa, sends him to Shiraz to propose to his fiancée, Tooba. Morteza and Tooba fall in love and get married. Morteza brings Tooba back to Kashan but tells nothing about it to his mother or his uncle. His mother discovers their relationship and, believing Morteza has betrayed them, curses him. Mostafa arrives and overhears her words...

The ring-necked dove

1970

Rashid poster
4.0

Rashid and his accomplice steal the jewelry of a paralyzed woman, who is killed during the incident. Rashid hides the jewelry in an abandoned mine and takes refuge in a cabin in the forest, where two fugitives—Hamed and Nazi—are living. Someone informs the fugitives that the police are searching for the jewel thief. Hamed becomes suspicious of Rashid and suggests they split the stolen jewelry and escape together...

Rashid

1972

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 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 Hateful Wolf poster
1.0

Forging with his wife, Gladam, is planted and planted in a piece of land away from the city. People in the village do not have a favorable opinion of them, so when the blacksmith wants them to help him in the delivery of his wife, they refuse and finally the blacksmith's wife goes on. People do not even allow the burial of a blacksmith's wife in the cemetery of the village, and at this time, the blacksmith is impelled and he wants to kill revenge.

The Hateful Wolf

1973

Stranger poster
6.3

Ghasem after getting released from the prison goes after his friend Abbas in the south. He there first has a fight with a guy who caused him to be jailed and then meets a girl Zari. But he knows that her father who is rich will not agree with him to marry her so with the help of his friend Abbas takes the girl and escapes to Tehran. This causes many troubles for him.

Stranger

1972

Around the World with empty pockets poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Around the World with empty pockets

1970

The Divine One poster
5.0

Mr. Mavadat in a party in his garden gets poisonous and his friends have to take him to doctor Hatam. But the doctor hides many dark secrets in his basement which are revealed little by little.

The Divine One

1976

The Iconoclast poster
2.0

Ali cooperates with a group of thieves led by Jafar. Ali meets a girl named Fereshteh. Fereshteh gradually falls in love with Ali

The Iconoclast

1976

Dash Akol poster
6.0

Dash Akol is greatly respected in Shiraz as an honorable man who has lost his family's money through helping his friends. He has an enemy, however, named Kaka Rostam, a mean and spiteful person. Dash Akol, who is in his forties, falls in love with Marjan, daughter of the late Haji Samad, for whose estate he is the executor. But he keeps his love secret. One day a suitor asks for Marjan's hand, and Dash Akol considers it against his code of honor to refuse. On the night of the wedding, Dash Akol hands over responsibility for the family to the bridegroom. As he is leaving the house, however, Kaka Rostam is waiting for him and a fight ensues. Kaka Rostam stabs him in the back, but Dash Akol succeeds in killing him. On his deathbed, Dash Akol sends his parrot to Marjan with the confession of love he has taught it.

Dash Akol

1971

Reza, the Motorcyclist poster
6.9

Reza Motori, who has feigned madness, escapes from an asylum and robs a factory, with the aid of a friend. Afterwards, a young writer, who looks exactly like Reza, visits the asylum in order to write about inmates. There he is mistaken for Reza and detained. Meanwhile, Reza assumes the identity of the writer. Reza falls in love with the writer's fiancée and decides to give up the money he has stolen from the factory, but his friends prevent him from doing so.

Reza, the Motorcyclist

1970

Companion poster
6.1

"Aatefeh," who has been deceived by "Mohsen," tries to persuade him to marry her. However, "Mohsen" runs away from her and heads to the north. Determined to achieve her goal, "Aatefeh" follows him north. The father of "Aatefeh," a wealthy man, assigns a young man named "Ali" to find his daughter and bring her back to the family.

Companion

1975

Escape from the Trap poster
3.5

After being released from prison, Morteza discovers that his fiancée, Mehri, has been married off to a moneylender. Mehri’s husband promises to divorce her in exchange for money. Morteza, together with a man named Karim, steals a fortune from drug traffickers and goes into hiding in the sugarcane fields...

Escape from the Trap

1971

The Deer poster
7.0

An urban guerrilla, wounded after a bank robbery, seeks refuge with his childhood friend—only to discover that his friend has fallen into addiction. The guerrilla hides in his house and gradually begins to influence him, helping him regain his courage and strength. Eventually, he entrusts the stolen money to him…

The Deer

1976

A Man and a City poster
2.0

Ahmad is a driver whose mental tensions every time cause him to be hospitalized. He escapes and hides in the house of a nurse Zhaleh but police captures him. Ahmad escapes once again and takes a bus full of students as hostages. But the police are to the rescue.

A Man and a City

1971

The Idol poster
2.0

Sadegh and Naeem deliver some smuggling goods to a person and escape from the police. Meanwhile they meet a young girl who wants to get her ill father to a doctor. She asks them for help ...

The Idol

1976

The Dagger poster
5.0

Abbas, known as "Abbas Chakhan," is a driver’s apprentice who is alone and has a stutter, constantly weaving tall tales. One night, he accidentally meets Banafsheh, who has ended up in a notorious neighborhood in search of her dreams, yet she is still determined to free herself from that place and have a home of her own. Abbas promises Banafsheh that he will help her. After she learns that Abbas has been imprisoned due to a small debt, she borrows money from a loan shark named Mohammad, known as "Mohammad the Dagger," to free Abbas.

The Dagger

1972

1960s · 19 titles

Bank Robber poster
NR

The thief, who looks a lot like the bank manager, after a long time of tracking and planning a precise scheme, introduces himself as the manager and robs the bank's safe. But he fails to execute the plan and gets caught by the police.

Bank Robber

1965

Man ham gerye kardam poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Man ham gerye kardam

1968

Hengameh poster
5.3

Two sisters from an aristocrat family fall in love with the son of their driver. Finally the little sister retreat for the oldest sister to get marry with him.

Hengameh

1968

The Lost Flower poster
NR

Old Iranian film by Abbas Shabaviz.

The Lost Flower

1962

It's Written in the Stars poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

It's Written in the Stars

1968

Blue World poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Blue World

1969

Farewell Tehran poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Farewell Tehran

1966

Iman poster
1.0

A young engineer who is returned home from Europe becomes responsible of taking care of his father's company. But a villain friend of him manages to drag him to gambling and drugs making him to lose his money and his family. Years later the young engineer in an accident helps a rich man and due to that manages to marry his girl and gets back his life and his family once again.

Iman

1967

Biganeh Biya poster
4.5

A young guy leaves his pregnant girlfriend and goes to Europe to study. The disappointed girl try to commit suicide but at last moments is saved by the brother of that guy. He marries her ...

Biganeh Biya

1969

The Vagabond Girl poster
NR

Laleh is a wandering girl who is arrested after a robbery at a railway station and promises the police officer that she will live a righteous life from now on. A young worker named Parviz tries to convince Laleh to marry him. But Laleh is against the marriage proposal, because she has to take care of her mother and father, who are always drunk. The owner of the house where Laleh's family lives convinces Laleh's father to consent to his daughter's marriage to Abbas.

The Vagabond Girl

1964

Twenty Years of Waiting poster
NR

Maryam leaves her son Majid on the street, and a man named Abbas Agha and his wife Fatemeh raise the child. Farid, Maryam's husband, is released from prison and later becomes very wealthy. Majid and his friend Hassan collaborate with a group of thieves led by Ghaffar. One day, Majid enters Farid's house and takes refuge in Hayedeh's room, gradually falling for her. Abbas, who knows Majid's real parents, gives Majid an incriminating letter to deliver to Farid.

Twenty Years of Waiting

1966

Qeysar poster
6.8

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

Qeysar

1969

Dalahoo poster
2.0

In Modabber family there is an old will which every time causes bloody consequences and that is all the heritage is should remain for their sons only. This time before the will take place their son in law Seif tries to kill the son. But the son Borzu is saved from getting killed by a local hunter who lives in the mountain Dalahoo. All fortunes will go for their nephew Arezoo but after 20 years Borzu is back and wants to take revenge.

Dalahoo

1967

The Bride of the Sea poster
6.0

Habib and Maryam love each other and want to get marry but another guy Akbar first go to her father and proposes for her. Meanwhile the father is in debt to Changiz which makes him to face him.

The Bride of the Sea

1965

The Pleasure of Sin poster
4.2

A deaf and dumb girl in a village is raped by a man, becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby. Jabbar later marries the village headman's daughter but his wife can't get pregnant. Therefore, he wants to get the baby for himself and his wife.

The Pleasure of Sin

1964

The Red Plain poster
5.0

With Rezvan's death his nephew Betty comes to Iran from abroad to sell the lands she has inherited from him. Fahim wants the lands for himself but Bahram is preventing him. This put them to confront each other while Betty too falls in love with Bahram.

The Red Plain

1968

Dozd-e Siyahpoush poster
5.5

Two brothers are separated from each other during an accident in their childhood and after a long time they find each other, one is known as "the thief in black" and the other is a police officer.

Dozd-e Siyahpoush

1968

An angel in my house poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

An angel in my house

1963

A Woman Called Sharab poster
6.0

A father and his son meet each other after many years. But there is always a woman in between.

A Woman Called Sharab

1968

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