Ataollah Zahed
Ataollah Zahed 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