The veteran actor Jamshid Mashayekhi dead at 84
Iran Theater—The veteran film and theater actor Jamshid Mashayekhi has died at age 84 on tuesday.
Iran Theater—The veteran film and theater actor Jamshid Mashayekhi has died at age 84 on tuesday.
Mashayekhi died in a hospital in Tehran after a lengthy illness. He had been occasionally hospitalized in recent years.
Mashayekhi appeared in nearly 100 films and some 70 TV series and plays beginning in the late 1950s when he quit the military academy to join stage.
Officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran reacted to his death and sent condolences. Many artists also reacted to the death of Jamshid Mashayekhi and sent messages.
Mashayekhi is survived by his wife, one daughter and two sons.
Mashayekhi was one of golden generation of actors of pre-revolutionary Iran and veteran actor Parviz Parastui once called him one of top five actors of Iranian cinema along with Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz, Ali Nasirian, Davud Rashidi, and Ezzatollah Entezami.