Ataollah Zahed Explained

Ataollah Zahed
Native Name:	عطاءالله زاهد
Native Name Lang:	Fa
Birth Date:	1915
Birth Place:	Shiraz, Fars province, Qajar Iran
Death Date:	6 November 1991
Death Place:	Tehran, Iran
Burial Place:	Ibn Babawayh Cemetery
Education:	University of Tehran, Marvi Theological School, Shahid Motahari University
Occupation:	Actor, film director, film producer, screenplay writer, voice-over actor, voice-over director, educator

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.^{[1] [2]}

Biography

Ataollah Zahed was born in 1915 in Shiraz, Fars province, Qajar Iran.^[3] 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.^[4] 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 ^[5]
• 1956 – ^[6]
• 1957 –
• 1958 –

Film producer

• 1958 –

Film director

• 1956 –
• 1957 –
• 1958 – ^[7]

Film actor

• 1979 – ^[8]
• 1985 – ^[9]
• 1986 –, as character Nooragha^[10]
• 1987 –, as the marriage officiant
• 1987 –,^[11] as character Seyyed Mamad
• 1987 –
• 1988 –
• 1988 –
• 1989 –
• 1989 – Eye of the Hurricane ^[12]
• 1991 –

Television series

He acted in the following television series:

• 1983–1985 – ^[13]
• 1984 –
• 1987 –
• 1987 – Hezardastan (Persian: هزاردستان|translit=Hezār Dastān), on Channel 1, as character Seyyed Ebrahim Rohani, a rohani^[14]

Notes and References

1. Web site: عطاءاله زاهد . SourehCinema.com.
2. Book: مرتضى, سيد محمدى، . فرهنگ كارگردانهاى سينماى ايران1377-1309 . 1999 . نشر سيمرو، (Simro Publishing) . 978-964-5685-35-3 . Tehran, IR . fa . Culture of Iranian Cinema Directors, 1998–1999.
3. Book: Omid, Jamal . Tarikh-e Sinema-ye Iran, 1279–1357 . Entesharat-e Rowzaneh . 1995 . Tehran, Iran . 932 . fa . The History of Iranian Cinema: 1900–1978.
4. Web site: November 2005 . برگي از تاريخ . A leaf from history . Hamshahrionline.ir . fa.
5. Book: Issari, Mohammad Ali . Cinema in Iran, 1900-1979 . 1989 . Scarecrow Press . 978-0-8108-2142-2 . 280, 286 . en.
6. Web site: بوسه مادر (۱۳۳۵) . Mother's Kiss (1335) . Sourehcinema.com . fa.
7. Book: Maghsoudlou, Bahman . Iranian Cinema . 1987 . Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University . 79 . en.
8. Web site: راهی به سوی خدا (۱۳۵۸) . A Way to God (1979) . SourehCinema.com . fa.
9. Web site: سمندر (۱۳۶۴) . Samandar (1364) . SourehCinema.com . fa.
10. Web site: ماديان (۱۳۶۴) . Mare (1364) . SourehCinema.com . fa.
11. Web site: Ataollah Zahed — Актер . 2022-06-08 . Кинопоиск . Ru.
12. Book: A Selection of Iranian Films . 1989 . Farabi Cinema Foundation . 24 . en.
13. Web site: November 2016 . در سریال بوعلی‌سینا 15 کیلو وزن کم کردم . With Mohammad Abhari, a veteran TV actor, I lost 15 kilos in the series Bu Ali Sina . 2022-06-08 . JameJamOnline.ir . fa.
14. Book: Khanjani, Ramin S. . Animating Eroded Landscapes: The Cinema of Ali Hatami . 2014 . H&S Media . 978-1-78083-382-8 . 81 .