Jahangir Forouhar
Acting
Biography
Jahangir Forouhar (1916 – November 6, 1997) was an Iranian actor. He was born in Esfahan, Iran in 1916. He started playing in theater at the age of eighteen and in cinema at the age of 50. He was father of Iranian pop singer and entertainer Leila Forouhar
Place of Birth: Isfahan, Iran
Known For
Samad be madreseh miravad
In the village where Samad lives, the "Fighting Illiteracy" organization organizes a literacy class for the elderly to teach them literacy skills. In order to trap a group of smugglers, the head of the police force arranges a "politics" and sends one of the smugglers he has arrested to the class. The smuggler's friends, who have learned of the presence of their accomplice in the class, try to escape him, unaware of the trap that has been set for them. At the moment when the smugglers want to free their friend and the police station officers are unaware, Samad, who is one of the students in the class, enters the fray and traps the fugitive and the group of smugglers, and delivers them to the police station.
Samad and Sami, Leyla and Lili
While the village headman and Mashhadi Bagher want to marry Leyla off to Eynollah, Leyla runs away and, together with Samad, sets out for the city. On the way, they encounter two city youths, Sami and Lili, who bear a striking resemblance to them. Samad and Sami, and Leyla and Lili, exchange clothes and head off to the city and the village in each other’s place…
Lollipop
Morteza, a truck driver, is a family-oriented man but has a quick temper. His behavior has upset his daughter and son. When Morteza ends up in prison for involuntary manslaughter due to an accident, his daughter, realizing that her fiancé, who is also her cousin, does not earn enough to support their lives, starts working as a secretary for a wealthy man ...
The Rotation of the Firmament
Mamal Feshfesheh is a pickpocket who is in love with a rich girl named Parvin. Parvin decides to help Mamal to live an honest straight life. Her uncle disapproves of their relationship and ...
My Uncle Napoleon
An uproarious adoption of a popular novel by Iraj Pezeshkzad set in and around the family compound in early 1940s Tehran, marvelously rich in personality and incident. The title character, so-called because of his constant invocation of the general, rules over a wonderfully complex extended family. A hilarious series which makes fun of just about everything.
Foreign Currency
Morteza Olfat is an ordinary employee who has lots of problems in his life. One day, he happens to find fifty thousand dollars. He says nothing to anyone and tries to exchange the cash.
The Deer
An urban guerrilla, wounded after a bank robbery, seeks refuge with his childhood friend—only to discover that his friend has fallen into addiction. The guerrilla hides in his house and gradually begins to influence him, helping him regain his courage and strength. Eventually, he entrusts the stolen money to him…
Kamalolmolk
The movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with various kings.
Desiderium
Desiderium lyrically charts the hapless loves of a three brother: Majid, they young handicapped brother with a deformed head falls in love with Aghdas, a prostitute hired by his eldest brother Habib to entertain him, not knowing the truth about her profession. Karim, the middle brother is so infatuated with a quail that he almost completely ignores his wife and her emotions. Habib himself is in love with Foroogh, a tailor lady who lives with them, while his sense of responsibility about Majid keeps him from requiting her affections.
Travelers
A young woman's wedding becomes a ritual of mourning when her sister and family die in an auto accident on the way to the wedding. The sisters' mother refuses to accept her daughter's death, and in the midst of wedding guests and mourners, including the drivers of the truck that caused the accident, she orders the wedding to take place. But how can the daughter marry in the midst of a wake and without the family's traditional mirror, which the sister was bringing to the service?
Filmography
as Inspector
as Baqer Mirza / Head Waiter at Grand Hotel
as Tadayyon
as Nezam
as Doctor
as Nayeb Teymour
as Kazem
as Police Officer
as Motahar
as Amir Khan
as Jeweler
as Rashid
as Manager of the Cabaret
as Yousef
as MohammadAli-Khan the Doctor
as Asghar
as Houshang
as Singing Teacher
as Dash Akol's friend
as Ramezoon
as Ehtesham's bailiff
as Aflaak
as Changiz
as Ghasem Contaki
as Mohammad Esmi
as Jalal Dolatmand