Ataollah Zahed

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 actor and director.

Biography

Ataollah Zahed was born in 1915 in Shiraz, Fars province, Qajar Iran. Around age 9 he started his artistic activities by acting in a play.

He attended the University of Tehran, where he received a B.A. degree in literature. He later studied Islamic jurisprudence 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 on 6 November 1991, and is buried in Ibn Babawayh Cemetery in Ray, Greater Tehran.

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 (), on Channel 1, as character Seyyed Ebrahim Rohani, a rohani

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