Saeed Raad (in Persian

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: سعید راد) is an Iran

Iran

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ian actor

Actor

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 and playwright

Playwright

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. He started his career in 1967. Rad left Iran in 1986 and lived in Canada

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 but he returned to his homeland in 2000 to continue his career.

After a minor role in Conquerors of the Desert (1969, M. Zarrindast) he was invited by Amir Naderi

Amir Naderi

Amir Naderi is a notable Iranian film director, screenwriter and one of the most influential figures of 20th-century Persian cinema. Mr Naderi is currently in Japan working on CUT, his new feature film, starring Hidetoshi Nishijima and Takako Tokiwa, due to be released in 2011.Naderi developed his...

 for the leading role of his debut, Adieu Friend (1971).

Because of his solemn, stern gaze and to some extent a rough complexion, Rad has played the role of rebel individuals in the margin of society. He is one of the main figures in New Wave of Iranian cinema which rose in the early 1970s and faded in the middle of the decade.

His plays

• Deadlock, 1973
• Made in Iran
• Journey of the Stone, 1978
• The Border, 1981
• The Red Line
• Farmaan, 1982
• Daadshah
  Daadshah
  Daadshah دادشاه is a 1983 Iranian film made in memories of Mir Dad Shah of Baluchestan.-Plot:Mir Dad Shah or Mir Daad Shah was a farmer who lived in Nillag village of Iranian Balochistan in the fifties. He hated Mohammad Reza Pahlavi an oppressive administration which made him to pick up arms...
  
  
• Crossing the Mine Field, 1983
• The Eagles, 1984
• Duel
  Duel (Iranian film)
  Duel is the most expensive movie ever made in Iranian cinema history. It was directed by Ahmad Reza Darvish, who was mostly known for films about the Iran-Iraq war. Duel was shot in roughly 11 months in various cities of Iran. The first screening was at the Fajr International Film Festival, in...
  
  , 2002

External links

• Saeed Rad at The Internet Movie Database