Esmail Shangaleh, a veteran actor, died at 86 from Covid-19

Esmail Shangaleh was born in Tehran in 1936, and he joined Barbad art community at 17, and he started acting on stage during that time. Then in 1956, he studied acting in the art school and three years later, he joined the theater department (dramatic arts).

 

In the early 60s, Shangleh traveled to Germany and Austria to continue his education and received his bachelor's degree in directing from the Academy of Performing Arts in Vienna. After returning to Iran, he taught acting at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts and acted in stage plays and tele-theaters.

 

like other well-known theater actors such as Ezzatollah Entezami, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, he started acting in the cinema at the beginning of the new wave of Iranian cinema.
His first experience in cinema was Dariush Mehrjui’s The Cycle.

Esmail Shangaleh was an actor and producer, known for Killing Mad Dogs (2001), A House in the Dust (2010) and The Blue (2001).
 

After cancer and his treatment, he gave up acting completely in the last years of his life