

Acting
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.
Highest rated appearances

Desiderium
as Habib Agha Zoroof-chi

Fish Die in Soil
as Seyyed Hossein Khadem

Charlotte be bazarche miayad

The Iconoclast
as Fereshteh's Grandfather

Honeymoon
as Khan Baba

Water
as Towfigh

Zabih
as Haj Samad

Prince Ehtejab
as Khosrow Khan aka "Prince Ehtejab"

The Sound of the Desert

The Curse

The Spring
as Woman's Lover

Bi-hejab

Lollipop
as Morteza Phantom

Sky with No Stars

Motreb
as Eskandar

Furious Men

Faryad

The Starless Sky

Pol

Javani ham alamai darad

Sunrise
as Doctor