Mohamad Ali Keshavarz
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Mohamad Ali Keshavarz is a famous Iran
ian cinema and theater actor
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). He is one of the most experienced and prominent actors of Iranian cinema who is still active. He has also appeared in a few television series.
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
ian cinema and theater actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
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Early life
He was born on 15 April 1930 in Seyhon, Isfahan. He is the second child of the family of Keshavarz which is famous in Isfahan as an artificer family.Career
Mohammad Ali Keshavarz graduated from Art School for Actin. He started stage acting in 1960 and began film acting with Night of Hunchback (1964, Farrokh GhaffariFarrokh Ghaffari
Farrokh Ghaffari was an Iranian film director, actor, critic and author. Along with Ebrahim Golestan and Fereydoun Rahnema he was one of the founders of Iran's New Wave film movement...
). He is one of the most experienced and prominent actors of Iranian cinema who is still active. He has also appeared in a few television series.
Selected filmography
| Title | Year | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Brick and the Mirror | 1965 | ||
| Shabe ghuzi | 1965 | Jamal | |
| Mr. Simpleton | 1970 | TV Series | |
| Sadegh Korde | 1972 | ||
| Ragbar | 1972 | Nazem | |
| Ghesseye mahan | 1973 | ||
| Vaghti ke aseman beshkafad | 1976 | ||
| Shatranje bad | 1976 | ||
| Sham-e akhar | 1976 | ||
| My Uncle Napoleon | 1976 | Sarhang | TV Series |
| The Desert of the Tartars (Italian: Il deserto dei Tartari) | 1976 | ||
| The Condemned | 1977 | ||
| Dust-dwellers | 1978 | ||
| Caravans | 1978 | Shakkur | |
| Hezar dastan | 1978-1987 | Shaban Ostekhani | TV Series |
| Zemzeme-ye mohabbat | 1980 | ||
| Gerdab | 1981 | ||
| The imperilled | 1982 | ||
| Sarbedaran | 1983 | Khaje Ghosheyri | TV Series |
| Kamalolmolk | 1984 | ||
| Tael | 1985 | ||
| Mardi ke moosh shod | 1985 | ||
| Mirza Norooz's Shoes | 1985 | Mirza Norouz | |
| Jafar Khan az farang bargashte | 1985 | Jafar | |
| Jamil | 1987 | ||
| Foreign Currency | 1989 | ||
| The Searcher | 1989 | ||
| The Rose | 1990 | Khan | |
| Mother | 1991 | ||
| Jostojoo dar jazireh | 1991 | ||
| Aghay-e bakhshdar | 1991 | ||
| Nassereddin Shah | 1992 | Farrash bashi | |
| Khosoof | 1992 | Fattah | |
| Del Shodegan | 1992 | Mirza Mahmoud | |
| Dear Wednesday | 1992 | ||
| A Man, a Bear | 1994 | Kamali | |
| Through the Olive Trees | 1994 | Film Director | |
| The Fateful Day | 1995 | ||
| Trap | 1995 | TV Series | |
| The Gazelle | 1996 | Ghazaal's grandfather | |
| Komiteh mojazat | 1997 | Shaban ostekhani | |
| Legion | 1998 | Ali | |
| Farzand-e sobh | 2010 | Ali Akbar Moalem Damghani |
Personal life
He is married with Zahra Keshavarz, his cousin in 1958 when he was 28. The couple has three children, including two daughters, Mina (born 1960) and Mobina (born 1967). Their only son was Mobin which was born in 1965 but died in a car accident in Summer 2004. Keshavarz was hospitalized in August 2011 after a heart attack.External links
- Naghsh Āfarin-i az Esfahan (A Character Actor from Esfahan), in Persian, Jadid Online, 27 January 2009, http://www.jadidonline.com/story/27012009/frnk/mohammadali_keshavarz.
A series of photographs of Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz, old and new, Jadid Online: http://www.jadidonline.com/slideshow/887/1.