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Parviz Pourhosseini

Acting Born Sep 11, 1941 Tehran, Iran 24 credits

Biography

Parviz Pourhosseini (Persian: پرویز پورحسینی ,‎ 11 September 1941 – 27 November 2020) was an Iranian film, theater and television actor. He died of COVID-19 at age 79, in Firoozgar Hospital in Tehran. He was best known for his roles in Bashu, the Little Stranger (1989), The Fifth Season (1997) and Saint Mary (1997). Other well-known films he had performed in include The Man Who Became a Mouse (1985), The Night it Happened (1988), Angel Day (1993), and Leila's Sleep (2007). He graduated with a bachelor's degree in performance arts from Tehran University's Faculty of Fine arts. In 1961, with director Hamid Samandarian, he and other artists formed an acting troupe named Pasargad. Since then, Poorhosseini had appeared in more than 35 movies, over 70 TV shows and 60 theater performances.

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Known for

Film

Hussein Who Said No

2014

Hezar Dastan

as Matin -o- Saltane

Full filmography

  • Hussein Who Said No (2014)
  • Hezar Dastan (1988) as Matin -o- Saltane
  • The Mokhtar Narrative (2010)
  • Once Upon a Time (1991) as Ghodrat
  • The Engineer Child as Baba Esmaeil
  • Tehran 11 Car (2000)
  • Saint Mary (2000) as Zacharia
  • Bashu, the Little Stranger (1989) as Naii's husband
  • Asphyxia (2017)
  • Saint Mary (2001) as Zechariah
  • Kamalolmolk (1984) as Kamran Mirza
  • The Ship Angelica (1989)
  • Ballad of Bahram (2018) as as Himself
  • Day of the Angel (1993)
  • The Spring (1973) as Woman's Libertine
  • The Fifth Season (1997)
  • Time to Love (2014) as Father Bita.
  • Behind the Wall of Silence (2018)
  • Summit of the Wave (2003)
  • Braille Line (2017)
  • Doctor Faustus (1985) as Doctor Faustus
  • Domestic Killer (2017) as Haj Agha Nourbakhsh
  • Mute Contact (1986) as Nasser's father
  • The Spell (1987)