Parviz Sayyad

Parviz Sayyad

Born: March 22, 1939
in Lahijan, Iran
Parviz Sayyad (Persian: پرویز صیاد, romanized: Parviz Sayyād; born 22 March 1939) is an Iranian-born American celebrated actor, director, translator, and screenwriter of Iranian cinema. He was one of the earliest television stars in Iran.

Movies for Parviz Sayyad...

Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Title: Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Character: Self
Released: February 12, 2021
Type: Movie
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless by Mahmoud Behraznia is a documentary with a different perspective on Sohrab Shahid Saless, a leading Iranian filmmaker. Someone whose viewpoint at cinema and the special type of aesthetics he used in his films has been a path-breaker for many Iranian filmmakers. The film provides the viewer with new information about the life and work of Sohrab Shahid Saless in Germany.
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Lie 12
Title: Lie 12
Released: April 1, 2019
Type: Movie
The Lie 12 is a story of love.
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The Loner
Title: The Loner
Character: Cirrus
Released: April 15, 2016
Type: Movie
Haunted by memories as a child soldier in 1980s Iran, Behrouz finds himself in bustling, neon-soaked Los Angeles, working to become a real estate agent and live a simple life with his girlfriend Oksana. But Behrouz’s attempts at a normal life become increasingly difficult as his opium addiction and gambling habit rear their ugly heads, and he struggles to leave behind his past with the Iranian mafia. Soon Behrouz and Oksana find themselves caught between the feuding heads of the Iranian and Russian mobs.
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Liberation
Title: Liberation
Character: Reza Shah (voice)
Released: July 26, 2009
Type: Movie
In 1979, the Shah of Iran was overthrown by the country's Islamic Revolution. Forced into exile, he settled in an isolated mansion in Cuernevaca, Mexico and watched as his empire collapsed on television. A powerful examination of dictatorship and its psychological effects on a man, LIBERATION explores a key turning point in Middle-East History and the origins of the Iran we know today.
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The Stoning of Soraya M.
Title: The Stoning of Soraya M.
Character: Hashem
Released: June 26, 2009
Type: Movie
In 1986 Iran, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village, enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marriage to an abusive tyrant ended in tragedy.
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Checkpoint
Title: Checkpoint
Character: Mr. Younesi
Released: August 14, 1987
Type: Movie
A busload of College students, returning to Michigan from a Canadian field trip, is stopped at the US border at the time of the Iranian hostage crisis. The group includes a number of Iranian passengers, divided along ideological lines, whose debates about policy and politics soon lead to a full-scale confrontation.
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The Mission
Title: The Mission
Character: The Colonel
Released: February 10, 1983
Type: Movie
An Iranian assassin is sent to the United States to kill a former Iranian official who served under the Shah of Iran. The night before the assassination he find out that his target (Mr. Tabataie) has already been killed by a Muslim American Hassan Tantai (aka David Theodore Belfield). A prominent mullah residing in the U.S. find him a new assassination target.
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Samad Becomes Homeless
Title: Samad Becomes Homeless
Character: Samad
Released: March 18, 1978
Type: Movie
Persian (Iranian) Movie
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Samad in the Way of Dragon
Title: Samad in the Way of Dragon
Character: Samad
Released: March 18, 1977
Type: Movie
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Title: My Uncle Napoleon
Character: Asdollah Mirza
Released: April 1, 1976
Type: TV
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.
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The Lantern of Imagination‏
Title: The Lantern of Imagination‏
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
"Fanoos Khiyal", with a brief introduction from illustration in Persian literature to mezzanine in Iranian miniatures and folk paintings, introduces the first camcorder in Iran and shows the first available films. After that, with the development of theaters in Iran, the production of movies begins. Iranian filmmakers in this field have a variety of experiences that result in technical advances and a variety of styles.
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The Falconet
Title: The Falconet
Character: Zanburakchi
Released: April 26, 1975
Type: Movie
During an attack in a caravansary in which all the soldiers die, three people manage to flee. After that they accidentally encounter in different places and help each other out.
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Samad Becomes Prosperous
Title: Samad Becomes Prosperous
Character: Samad
Released: March 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Samad is been sent to the city to work at the house of a rich guy Mr. Maghami. The rich guy wins in a lottery but doesn't want his name to be revealed so he introduces Samad as the winner...
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Slaughterhouse
Title: Slaughterhouse
Character: Mohammad Ghiasi
Released: February 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Mohammad meets a woman Fakhri in a café and decides to go with her to the north. He invites his friend Saeed who about to get marry with his fiancée to come with them. But in the middle of the way Fakhri drops out of the car and with another guy Jalal plans to blackmail these two friends causing them to be jailed. This cause Saeed's fiancée to commit suicide. When released Saeed who blames Fakhri for the death of his fiancée decides to get revenge on them and asks Mohammad to help him.
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Mozaffar
Title: Mozaffar
Character: Mozaffar
Released: January 21, 1975
Type: Movie
Goli's mother doesn't let her to marry Mozafar who is a in a poor financial position. In a series of events Mozafar has to overcome his rich opponent, Motahar.
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Far From Home
Title: Far From Home
Character: Husseyin
Released: January 2, 1975
Type: Movie
This drama explores the grim lives of Turkish “guest workers” living in Germany.
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The Ghost Valley's Treasure Mysteries
Title: The Ghost Valley's Treasure Mysteries
Character: Peasant
Released: December 11, 1974
Type: Movie
A satirical comedy about a poor farmer who, while plowing his field, accidentally uncovers an ancient burial chamber loaded with gold artifacts. Realizing that the trove would somehow liberate him from his bumpkin existence, he brings pieces of it to a jeweler in the city.
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Samad Becomes an Artist
Title: Samad Becomes an Artist
Released: March 21, 1974
Type: Movie
Persian (Iranian) Movie
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Samad be madreseh miravad
Title: Samad be madreseh miravad
Character: Samad
Released: March 21, 1973
Type: Movie
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Samad and Foolad Zereh, the Ogre
Title: Samad and Foolad Zereh, the Ogre
Character: Samad
Released: January 10, 1973
Type: Movie
Samad burns an ogre's hair which causes an 8000 years old ogre to be released from his prison. The ogre eats a goat and also kidnapped Leila for Samad which causes her father to complain against Samad and sends him to jail but the ogre saves him and takes him to the city. There they have more adventures.
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Sattar Khan
Title: Sattar Khan
Character: Ali Mosioo
Released: October 16, 1972
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of the Azari war hero, Satar Khan, during the time of the Constitutional Revolution. The story follows Satar and Heidar as they join another hero Bagher Khan.
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Samad and Sami, Leila and Lili
Title: Samad and Sami, Leila and Lili
Character: Samad
Released: March 18, 1972
Type: Movie
Persian (Iranian) Movie
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The Suitor
Title: The Suitor
Character: Khavari
Released: January 21, 1972
Type: Movie
Mr. Khavari, a calligraphy teacher who is the tenant of an aristocratic family has fallen in love with their daughter. But the hand of fate is working against his heartfelt sentiments. Every time he find a chance to ask for the girl's hand, a rival crops up that marries the girl and make him a loser. But Khavari proves himself a persevering suitor...
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Samad and Sami, Leyla and Lili
Title: Samad and Sami, Leyla and Lili
Released: January 5, 1972
Type: Movie
Samad (Parviz Sayad) and Leila (Shahnaz Tehrani) live in the village and two other people, who look exactly like them, named Sami and Laili, live in the city and... we can say that this story is a humorous adaptation of the movie Reza is a motorist.
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Samad va ghalicheyeh hazrat soleyman
Title: Samad va ghalicheyeh hazrat soleyman
Character: Samad
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
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Hassan, the Bald
Title: Hassan, the Bald
Character: Hasan Kachal
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Inspired by Iranian folk tales and reputed as the first Iranian musical movie, the film follows the story of the lazybones congenitally bald Hassan who is tricked out of the house by his mother. Then he learns about Chelgis, a girl kidnapped and kept by an ogre in his enchanted garden. Smitten by her beauty, Hassan tries to find a way to save her. In a public bathroom, he encounters his doppelganger. The doppelganger promises to fulfill his wishes in return for a fraction of his life. But when fulfilled, his wishes do not emerge the same he envisioned…