Behrouz Vossoughi

Behrouz Vossoughi

Born: March 10, 1938
in Khoy, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Behrouz Vossoughi is one of Iran's most legendary actors. He has over 40 years of experience in the motion picture industry, with featured appearances in more than 90 films. In addition to his work in films, television, radio and theater, Behrouz' performances have earned him recognition at several international film festivals. He was one of the first to play in American and European Co-Productions such as inCaravans (1978) in 1978 co-starring with Anthony Quinn, Jennifer O'Neill (I) andMichael Sarrazin. He was also to play in another American movie called The Invincible Six (1970) with Curd Jürgens in 1962. His major films were, of course, Iranian. In Iran, he is still truly a Mega Star and Role model for an entire generation of Iranians in Post Islamic Iran and under the Shah's Pro-American Regime. Co-starring with his future wife, singer and actress Googoosh in a number of films such as Honeymoon (1976) aka the Honeymoon. He is certainly The Iranian actor who paved the road for the new generation of Iranians working today in Iran and aboard.

Movies for Behrouz Vossoughi...

Pure White
Title: Pure White
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 25, 2022
Type: Movie
This documentary movie explores the professional life of Parviz Fanizadeh, Iranian actor of the 60s and 70s cinema and theater, with investigating through archival footage of his works and referring to his fellow artists.
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Filmfarsi
Title: Filmfarsi
Character: (archive footage)
Released: July 26, 2019
Type: Movie
A found-footage essay, Filmfarsi salvages low budget thrillers and melodramas suppressed following the 1979 Islamic revolution.
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Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses
Title: Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 2016
Type: Movie
An examination of the work and lives of actresses in the Iranian film industry prior to the 1979 revolution, featuring myriad interviews and rare film clips.
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Rhino Season
Title: Rhino Season
Character: Sahel
Released: October 25, 2012
Type: Movie
Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.
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Another Salute
Title: Another Salute
Character: Self
Released: May 2, 2009
Type: Movie
After receiving the 2000 Akira Kurosawa Award, Abbas Kiarostami immediately gave it away to honor the renowned and exiled actor Behrouz Vossoughi, from the generation preceding the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Later that year, Khosrow Shakibaei—one of the best actors after the Iranian Revolution—tried to find and meet Behrouz Voussoughi. Any attempt to meet Behrouz Vossoughi, whose name and picture are banned in Iran, would have put Khosrow Shakibaei’s acting career in Iran in jeopardy. After the unexpected death of Khosrow Shakibaei in July 2008, Hossein Khandan, director of “Another Salute” received consent from Khosrow’s family to release the film.
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Zarin
Title: Zarin
Character: Client
Released: October 15, 2005
Type: Movie
The story of a young woman who has been working as a prostitute since childhood. The film traces her slow disintegration into psychic delirium. Wracked by both guilt for her actions and a strong desire for salvation, her madness manifests itself in her perception of the world around her. Chronicling the course of her breakdown with imagery that is both graphic and beautiful, Neshat evokes the torment of one so tortured by her subjugated role in society that she feels completely powerless. As the men Zarin encounters appear without faces, horror, shame, and guilt overwhelm her. Viewing this as her punishment from God, she flees the brothel for a bathhouse. Scrubbing her skin raw and bloody, she attempts to make amends with her past; however, she descends deeper in madness as she strives for redemption.
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Broken Bridges
Title: Broken Bridges
Character: Michael
Released: November 19, 2004
Type: Movie
The plot of film is constructed on the basis of memoirs of the son and mother. They were divided with border between northern and southern Azerbaijan.
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Terror In Beverly Hills
Title: Terror In Beverly Hills
Character: Abdul
Released: August 26, 1989
Type: Movie
When the President's daughter is kidnapped, it's up to an ex-marine to save her. The problem is that the terrorist leader has a lingering hatred for him, as he has been wrongfully blamed for the death of his wife and children. The action heats up, as the two mortal enemies confront each other with extreme violence.
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Sphinx
Title: Sphinx
Character: Menephta, The Royal Architect
Released: February 11, 1981
Type: Movie
Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs - murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse!
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Out of Breath
Title: Out of Breath
Character: Nabi
Released: March 21, 1980
Type: Movie
Nabi who suffers from Epilepsy is hired by Khosrow to follow his fiancé Golrokh in order to find out about the male lover Khosrow presumes she has. Nabi finds out that Golrokh has a suicidal car accident and tries to help her. However he is not aware of the whole truth.
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Caravans
Title: Caravans
Character: Nasrollah
Released: November 2, 1978
Type: Movie
This epic adventure-drama based on James Michener's best-selling novel concerns a young American embassy official who is sent into the Middle-Eastern desert to find the missing daughter of a US Senator. The young woman has left her husband, a Colonel in the Shadom - she was his number two wife - and has opted for the lifestyle of a nomadic tribe. When the diplomat locates the girl he joins the caravan and attempts to persuade the girl to return.
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Cat in the Cage
Title: Cat in the Cage
Character: Bruce Khan
Released: August 2, 1978
Type: Movie
A young man returns to his rich family's estate after a stay in a mental hospital. He finds that his father has married his deceased wife's nurse, who is secretly plotting with her lover
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Desiderium
Title: Desiderium
Character: Majid Dokaleh
Released: November 24, 1977
Type: Movie
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.
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The Iconoclast
Title: The Iconoclast
Character: Ali Ta'arofi
Released: September 22, 1976
Type: Movie
Ali cooperates with a group of thieves led by Jafar. Ali meets a girl named Fereshteh. Fereshteh gradually falls in love with Ali
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The Idol
Title: The Idol
Character: Sadegh
Released: April 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Sadegh and Naeem deliver some smuggling goods to a person and escape from the police. Meanwhile they meet a young girl who wants to get her ill father to a doctor. She asks them for help ...
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Honeymoon
Title: Honeymoon
Character: Reza
Released: February 10, 1976
Type: Movie
Reza and his mother Mah Banu, have a good and near relationship with Hossein family known as Khan Baba. Reza spends his time with Changiz, the son of Hossein family, and is interested in his sister, Mino.
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The Divine One
Title: The Divine One
Character: Dr. Hatam
Released: January 2, 1976
Type: Movie
Mr. Mavadat in a party in his garden gets poisonous and his friends have to take him to doctor Hatam. But the doctor hides many dark secrets in his basement which are revealed little by little.
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Fellow Traveler
Title: Fellow Traveler
Character: Ali
Released: April 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A wealthy man who has a company deceive a naive girl Atefeh (Gogoosh) who thinks he wants to marry her. Atefeh goes to the north of Iran to find the wealthy man. Her father gives Ali (Behrouz Vossoughi) 70000 Tomans to go and returns her back home but a romance is merge between the two youngsters.
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Mamal Amricayi
Title: Mamal Amricayi
Character: Mamal
Released: April 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A Young guy (Behrouz Vossoughi) who is dreaming to go to America is trying to manage the money by stealing it, then one day he meets a wealthy girl (Gogoosh).
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Zabih
Title: Zabih
Character: Zabih
Released: February 2, 1975
Type: Movie
Zabih, a tough guy who committed a murder in support of his girl, Aghdas is released from prison after 15 years. When arrested, Aghdas was pregnant with his child. Now Zabih sets off for his hometown to find Aghdas and their son.
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Beehive
Title: Beehive
Character: Ebi
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Recently have been released from jail, Ebi makes a bet with his Friend that he goes and drinks in seven bars without even paying any money.
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The Compromise
Title: The Compromise
Character: Javad / Dr. Rastegar
Released: August 28, 1974
Type: Movie
A thief accidentally overhears a phone call in which the caller lies to his wife while cheating on her. Thief decides to blackmail him.
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The Deer
Title: The Deer
Character: Seyed
Released: March 21, 1974
Type: Movie
Wounded by the police, a thief looks up his old friend in order to leave the proceeds of his theft with him. Instead, he finds that his friend is a drug addict. He sticks around to try and help his friend kick the habit; instead, both men are caught in a shootout with the police and...
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Tight Spot
Title: Tight Spot
Character: Zaer Mamad
Released: April 1, 1973
Type: Movie
This film, based on a well-known novel of the same name by Sadegh Chooback, is about a wronged man seeking revenge. Director Amir Naderi's inspiration for making the film was one of his childhood heroes, the legendary Zar Mohammad, who waged a one-man war against four swindlers and provoked wide spread popular sentiment against tyranny.
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The Curse
Title: The Curse
Released: March 19, 1973
Type: Movie
An old man who works for a landlord brings a young worker to paint the house for him. The old landlord is alcoholic and has a young wife and together they manage a ranch. Little by little ...
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The Hateful Wolf
Title: The Hateful Wolf
Character: Blacksmith
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Forging with his wife, Gladam, is planted and planted in a piece of land away from the city. People in the village do not have a favorable opinion of them, so when the blacksmith wants them to help him in the delivery of his wife, they refuse and finally the blacksmith's wife goes on. People do not even allow the burial of a blacksmith's wife in the cemetery of the village, and at this time, the blacksmith is impelled and he wants to kill revenge.
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Stranger
Title: Stranger
Character: Ghasem Siyah
Released: August 16, 1972
Type: Movie
Ghasem after getting released from the prison goes after his friend Abbas in the south. He there first has a fight with a guy who caused him to be jailed and then meets a girl Zari. But he knows that her father who is rich will not agree with him to marry her so with the help of his friend Abbas takes the girl and escapes to Tehran. This causes many troubles for him.
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The Dagger
Title: The Dagger
Character: Abbas chakhan
Released: May 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Banafsheh, a young prostitute who has fled with a man to the seaside in hope of starting a new life has to return to her profession as she learns about the betrayal of her lover. Penniless and emotionally broken, she also has to bear with the taunts of the other girls and the threats of the roughneck patron of the house, Mammad who unfailingly refer to his dagger to consolidate his supremacy. In fact it was Mammad who ordered the man to rob Banafsheh of her money and abandon her. Banafsheh apparently has not learnt her lesson, as she trusts her next customer and falls in love with him. Her new lover , Abbas, is a truck driver who received his nickname for his habit of constantly lying, but it seems that he gives it a break when promises Banafsheh to get a house of their own...
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Baluch
Title: Baluch
Character: Baluch
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Two gangster squads who smuggle antiques fight each other in Zahedan. The first squad's members manage to kill the members of the other squad. Two villains of them rape a woman Leila who is the wife of a man his name Baluch and escape to Tehran. He pursues them and shots them. While thinking that he had killed them, he surrender to the police and imprisoned for 12 years. When released from the prison he finds that they are not dead. He goes after them and kills both of them.
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A Man and a City
Title: A Man and a City
Character: Captain Amir Sharafi
Released: December 29, 1971
Type: Movie
Ahmad is a driver whose mental tensions every time cause him to be hospitalized. He escapes and hides in the house of a nurse Zhaleh but police captures him. Ahmad escapes once again and takes a bus full of students as hostages. But the police are to the rescue.
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Rashid
Title: Rashid
Released: April 1, 1971
Type: Movie
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Escape from the Trap
Title: Escape from the Trap
Character: Morteza
Released: March 21, 1971
Type: Movie
Morteza who is recently freed from prison, promises Mehri to buy her out the debt she has to pay her husband. In order to do so, he commits a rubbery that won't turn out well.
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The Window
Title: The Window
Character: Sohrab
Released: January 6, 1971
Type: Movie
Sohrab is going from his city Abadan to work in his uncle's factory in Tehran. Sohrab meets a girl Taraneh who is pregnant. She with the help of Asghar Zhila wants to accused Sohrab of ...
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Dash Akol
Title: Dash Akol
Character: Dash Akol
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Dash Akol is greatly respected in Shiraz as an honorable man who has lost his family's money through helping his friends. He has an enemy, however, named Kaka Rostam, a mean and spiteful person. Dash Akol, who is in his forties, falls in love with Marjan, daughter of the late Haji Samad, for whose estate he is the executor. But he keeps his love secret. One day a suitor asks for Marjan's hand, and Dash Akol considers it against his code of honor to refuse. On the night of the wedding, Dash Akol hands over responsibility for the family to the bridegroom. As he is leaving the house, however, Kaka Rostam is waiting for him and a fight ensues. Kaka Rostam stabs him in the back, but Dash Akol succeeds in killing him. On his deathbed, Dash Akol sends his parrot to Marjan with the confession of love he has taught it.
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Reza Motori
Title: Reza Motori
Character: Reza
Released: August 4, 1970
Type: Movie
Reza Motori, who has feigned madness, escapes from an asylum and robs a factory, with the aid of a friend. Afterwards, a young writer, who looks exactly like Reza, visits the asylum in order to write about inmates. There he is mistaken for Reza and detained. Meanwhile, Reza assumes the identity of the writer. Reza falls in love with the writer's fiancée and decides to give up the money he has stolen from the factory, but his friends prevent him from doing so.
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The Invincible Six
Title: The Invincible Six
Character: Jahan
Released: June 10, 1970
Type: Movie
Based on the story "The Heroes of Yucca," The Invincible Six features a ragtag group of jewel thieves who become the unofficial guardians of a small Iranian village. When bandits attack the village, looking for the body of their former leader and his treasure map, the Invincible Six are there to save the day, wooing the local females and frustrating the new leader of the bandits.
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The Soil
Title: The Soil
Character: Saleh
Released: March 21, 1970
Type: Movie
After the death of the landlord of the village, his European wife demands the land of Baba Sobhan but his two sons who farm there are refusing. They promise to pay the rent on the right ...
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Toughi
Title: Toughi
Character: Morteza
Released: March 21, 1970
Type: Movie
There is an old saying in Farsi, "if you catch a Toughi to keep, it will bring bad omens to the members of the family". ...And that's what happens to a very close nit family when Toghi is ...
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Leyli and Majnoon
Title: Leyli and Majnoon
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
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Gheysar
Title: Gheysar
Character: Gheisar
Released: March 21, 1969
Type: Movie
Gheysar returns home to find that his young sister has committed suicide and his older brother Farman got killed. When he finds that Aghmangol brothers are behind all of this decides to get revenge. His uncle advised him not to go after revenge but he begins to pursue them killing them one by one. Finally, when killing the last brother he himself is getting killed by the police.
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Biganeh Biya
Title: Biganeh Biya
Character: Amir Ahmad
Released: January 2, 1969
Type: Movie
A young guy leaves his pregnant girlfriend and goes to Europe to study. The disappointed girl try to commit suicide but at last moments is saved by the brother of that guy. He marries her ...
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Blue World
Title: Blue World
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
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Hengameh
Title: Hengameh
Character: Behrouz
Released: October 30, 1968
Type: Movie
Two sisters from an aristocrat family fall in love with the son of their driver. Finally the little sister retreat for the oldest sister to get marry with him.
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Dozd-e Siyahpoush
Title: Dozd-e Siyahpoush
Character: Hossein Simorgh
Released: October 16, 1968
Type: Movie
Two brothers are separated from each other during an accident in their childhood and after a long time they find each other, one is known as "the thief in black" and the other is a police officer.
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The Red Plain
Title: The Red Plain
Released: May 5, 1968
Type: Movie
With Rezvan's death his nephew Betty comes to Iran from abroad to sell the lands she has inherited from him. Fahim wants the lands for himself but Bahram is preventing him. This put them to confront each other while Betty too falls in love with Bahram.
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It's Written in the Stars
Title: It's Written in the Stars
Released: April 1, 1968
Type: Movie
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A Woman Called Sharab
Title: A Woman Called Sharab
Character: Mohsen
Released: January 17, 1968
Type: Movie
A father and his son meet each other after many years. But there is always a woman in between.
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Man ham gerye kardam
Title: Man ham gerye kardam
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
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Dalahoo
Title: Dalahoo
Released: July 17, 1967
Type: Movie
In Modabber family there is an old will which every time causes bloody consequences and that is all the heritage is should remain for their sons only. This time before the will take place their son in law Seif tries to kill the son. But the son Borzu is saved from getting killed by a local hunter who lives in the mountain Dalahoo. All fortunes will go for their nephew Arezoo but after 20 years Borzu is back and wants to take revenge.
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Iman
Title: Iman
Character: Saeed
Released: June 28, 1967
Type: Movie
A young engineer who is returned home from Europe becomes responsible of taking care of his father's company. But a villain friend of him manages to drag him to gambling and drugs making him to lose his money and his family. Years later the young engineer in an accident helps a rich man and due to that manages to marry his girl and gets back his life and his family once again.
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Vasvaseye sheitan
Title: Vasvaseye sheitan
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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Emroz -o farda
Title: Emroz -o farda
Released: April 1, 1966
Type: Movie
The bus takes orphanages for a short camp to the northern regions of the country...
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Farewell Tehran
Title: Farewell Tehran
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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Hashem Khan
Title: Hashem Khan
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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The Bride of the Sea
Title: The Bride of the Sea
Character: Changiz
Released: June 22, 1965
Type: Movie
Habib and Maryam love each other and want to get marry but another guy Akbar first go to her father and proposes for her. Meanwhile the father is in debt to Changiz which makes him to face him.
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The Pleasure of Sin
Title: The Pleasure of Sin
Character: Jabbar
Released: December 23, 1964
Type: Movie
A deaf and dumb girl in a village is raped by a man, becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby. Jabbar later marries the village headman's daughter but his wife can't get pregnant. Therefore, he wants to get the baby for himself and his wife.
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The Hundred Kilo Bridegroom
Title: The Hundred Kilo Bridegroom
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
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