Ataollah Zahed

Ataollah Zahed (1915 – 1991) also spelled as Ataullah Zahed, was an Iranian actor of theater, television, and film; a film director; film producer; screenplay writer; educator; and a voice-over actor and director.

Biography
Ataollah Zahed was born in 1915 in Shiraz, Fars province, Qajar Iran. Around age 9 he started his artistic activities by acting in a play.

He attended the University of Tehran, where he received a B.A. degree in literature. He later studied Islamic jurisprudence at and Shahid Motahari University. Zahed was one of the founders of Hosseiniyeh Ershad, a non-traditional religious institute in Tehran, where he taught theater and cinema courses.

Zahed died of a heart attack on 6 November 1991, and is buried in Ibn Babawayh Cemetery in Ray, Greater Tehran.

Screenplay writer

 * 1955 – The Incident of Life
 * 1956 –
 * 1957 –
 * 1958 –

Film producer

 * 1958 –

Film director

 * 1956 –
 * 1957 –
 * 1958 –

Film actor

 * 1979 –
 * 1985 –
 * 1986 –, as character Nooragha
 * 1987 –, as the marriage officiant
 * 1987 –, as character Seyyed Mamad
 * 1987 –
 * 1988 –
 * 1988 –
 * 1989 –
 * 1989 – Eye of the Hurricane
 * 1991 –

Television series
He acted in the following television series:


 * 1983–1985 –
 * 1984 –
 * 1987 –
 * 1987 – Hezardastan, on Channel 1, as character Seyyed Ebrahim Rohani, a rohani