Ataollah Zahed (; 1915 – 1991) also spelled as Ataullah Zahed, was an Iranian actor of theater, television, and film; a film director; film producer; screenplay writer; educator; and a
voice-over
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actor and director.
Biography
Ataollah Zahed was born in 1915 in
Shiraz
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,
Fars province,
Qajar Iran
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. Around age 9 he started his artistic activities by acting in a play.
He attended the
University of Tehran
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, where he received a B.A. degree in literature.
He later studied
Islamic jurisprudence
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The commands and prohibitions chosen by God were revealed through the agency of the Prophet in both the Quran and the Sunnah (words, deeds, and ...
at and
Shahid Motahari University. Zahed was one of the founders of
Hosseiniyeh Ershad, a non-traditional religious institute in Tehran, where he taught theater and cinema courses.
Zahed died of a
heart attack
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on 6 November 1991,
and is buried in
Ibn Babawayh Cemetery in
Ray
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Fish
* Ray (fish), any cartilaginous fish of the superorder Batoidea
* Ray (fish fin anatomy), a bony or horny spine on a fin
Science and mathematics
* Ray (geometry), half of a line proceeding from an initial point
* Ray (g ...
,
Greater Tehran
Greater Tehran is the urban agglomeration around Tehran that covers the central part of the Tehran Province and eastern part of the Alborz Province, that covers the contiguous cities of Tehran, Ray, Shemirānāt, and other areas.
As of 2012, ...
.
Filmography
Screenplay writer
* 1955 – The Incident of Life ()
* 1956 – ()
* 1957 – ()
* 1958 – ()
Film producer
* 1958 – ()
Film director
* 1956 – ()
* 1957 – ()
* 1958 – ()
Film actor
* 1979 – ()
* 1985 – ()
* 1986 – (), as character Nooragha
* 1987 – (), as the marriage officiant
* 1987 – (),
as character Seyyed Mamad
* 1987 – ()
* 1988 – ()
* 1988 – ()
* 1989 – ()
* 1989 –
Eye of the Hurricane ()
* 1991 – ()
Television series
He acted in the following television series:
* 1983–1985 – ()
* 1984 – ()
* 1987 – ()
* 1987 –
Hezardastan ( fa, هزاردستان, translit=Hezār Dastān), on
Channel 1, as character Seyyed Ebrahim Rohani, a
rohani
Hassan Rouhani ( fa, حسن روحانی, Standard Persian pronunciation: ; born Hassan Fereydoun ( fa, حسن فریدون, links=no); 12 November 1948) is an Iranian politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. ...
References
External links
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1915 births
1991 deaths
People from Shiraz
Iranian male actors
University of Tehran alumni
Shahid Motahari University
Iranian film directors
Iranian voice actors
Iranian screenwriters
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