Checkpoint parviz sayyad biography
Checkpoint parviz sayyad biography
Parviz Sayyad - actor, director, producer, writer, editor.
Parviz Sayyad
Iranian actor and film director
Parviz Sayyad (Persian: پرویز صیاد, romanized: Parviz Sayyād; born 22 March 1939)[1] is an Iranian-born American celebrated actor, director, translator, and screenwriter of Iranian cinema.
He was one of the earliest television stars in Iran.[1]
Early life
Parviz Sayyad was born on March 22, 1939, in Lahijan, Pahlavi Iran.[1]
Throughout the 1960s Sayyad starred in many plays that were adapted for television; and he was in the first Iranian television program titled Amir Arsalan alongside Mary Apick.[1]
Career in Iran
See also: Samad (fictional character)
His first film, a comedy, Hasan Kachal (1970), or "Hasan the Bald", is well remembered.
He gained more fame starring in one of the oldest Iranian television series Octopus [fa] (1975; Persian: اختاپوس, romanized: Okhtapus) playing the role of a well mannered, diplomatic sneaky and soft-spoken bo