Nematollah Gorji Explained

Native Name:	نعمت‌الله گرجی
Birth Date:	30 March 1926
Birth Place:	Tehran, Imperial State of Persia
Death Place:	Tehran, Iran
Occupation:	Actor
Native Name Lang:	Fa

Nemat'o'llāh Gorji (Persian: نعمت‌الله گرجی; 30 March 1926,^[1] in Tehran – 5 April 2000,^[2] in Tehran) was an Iranian theatre and film actor of Georgian descent.

Gorji acted in at least 94 Iranian films, some of which have come to be ranked amongst the most celebrated Iranian films of the 1970s. His last role was that of an old and kind-hearted gardener-caretaker in The Pear Tree (Derakht-e Golābi), 1998, directed by Dariush Mehrjui.^[3]

Filmography

• Mashti Mamdali's Car (1974)
• Hostage (1974)
• Youthful Days (1999-2000)
• The Blue Veiled (1995)

See also

• Bāgh-e Ferdows

External links

• Home Page of Film Museum of Iran.
• Photograph of the graveside of Nematollah Gorji at Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery, Tehran: http://www.zahirdowleh.com/Gorji-nematollah.jpg.
• Derakht-e Golābi (The Pear Tree), IMDb: The Internet Movie Database.

Notes and References

1. Web site: زنده یاد نعمت اله گرجی با بازی در هزار دستان نقشی ماندگار را رقم زد/ هنرمندی که مظلوم پر کشید + عکس .
2. http://www.kargardan.com/article/p618-نعمت-الله-گرجی نعمت-الله-گرجی
3. Nematollah Gorji,Sureh Association (in Persian)