Jamshid Mashayekhi is a celebrated Iranian actor and an iconic figure of Iranian cinema. Mashayekhi began professional acting on stage in 1957. His first feature film role was Brick and Mirror(1965, Ebrahim Golestan). After a four-year break, he acted in The Cow (1969, Darius Mehrjui) and Kaiser(Qeysar) (1969, Masoud Kimiai). Mashayekhi commonly appears as an elderly grandfather because of his white hair and charismatic face and figure. He received a best performance award for The Grandfather (1985, Majid Gharizadeh) from the First Festival of Non-aligned Countries in North Korea.
Water
(Towfigh)
Lollipop
(Morteza)
The Sound of the Desert
Pure White
(Self)
Tear and Smile
O Kaiser
Bi-hejab
Charlotte be bazarche miayad
Dead End of Trust
(Mostofi)
The Musketeer
The Cow
(Abbas)
Desiderium
(Habib Agha Zoroof-chi)
Faryad
Being Farmanara
((archive footage))
Gheysar
(Gheisar's uncle)
Javani ham alamai darad
Sky with No Stars
The Gunman
Motreb
(Eskandar)
Honeymoon
(Khan Baba)
The Brick and the Mirror
The Starless Sky
Abadan
Unruled Paper
(Roya's Teacher)
Prince Ehtejab
(Khosrow Khan aka "Prince Ehtejab")
The Spring
(Woman's Lover)
Kamalolmolk
(Kamalolmolk)
Zabih
(Haj Samad)
The Curse
A Little Kiss
Alma
The Grandfather
Crime
(Morteza Afjehei)
Punishment Committe
(Reza tofangchi)
The Lead
(Mirza Mohsen)
Fish Die in Soil
(Seyyed Hossein Khadem)
Pol
Dada
I am not Scrap
Good Fellas
A Candle in the Wind
The House of Spider
All Three, He Said
Sunrise
(Doctor)
A House Built on Water
(Dr. Latifian)
The father of other
Furious Men
The Spell
The Fateful Day
Cheque
(Bahrami)
Bitter Almonds
The Iconoclast
(Fereshteh's Grandfather)
Once Upon a Time in Tehran
(Reza Khoshnevis)
Thirteen 59
My Lady
Chrysanthemum
Serpent’s Skin
My Child
The Teacher without Master
Soutedel
(himself)
After the silence
(himself)
Fannizadeh
(Himself)
The Path of Glory
Tabriz dar meh
Hezar Dastan
(Reza Khoshnevis (Tofangchi))
The fall of Sahra
The Enigma of the Shah