Parviz Pourhosseini

Biography

Parviz Pourhosseini (Persian: پرویز پورحسینی ,‎ 11 September 1941 – 27 November 2020) was an Iranian film, theater and television actor. He died of COVID-19 at age 79, in Firoozgar Hospital in Tehran. He was best known for his roles in Bashu, the Little Stranger (1989), The Fifth Season (1997) and Saint Mary (1997). Other well-known films he had performed in include The Man Who Became a Mouse (1985), The Night it Happened (1988), Angel Day (1993), and Leila's Sleep (2007). He graduated with a bachelor's degree in performance arts from Tehran University's Faculty of Fine arts. In 1961, with director Hamid Samandarian, he and other artists formed an acting troupe named Pasargad. Since then, Poorhosseini had appeared in more than 35 movies, over 70 TV shows and 60 theater performances.

Known For

Resurrection

Saint Mary

Bashu, the Little Stranger

Acting

2018

Ballad of Bahram

as

as Himself

1989

The Station

as

2014

Time to Love

as

Father Bita.

2017

Asphyxia

as

1980

Salandar

as

2014

Resurrection

as

1989

The Ship Angelica

as

1993

Day of the Angel

as

1987

The Spell

as

1984

Kamalolmolk

as

Kamran Mirza

1973

The Spring

as

Woman's Libertine

2017

Domestic Killer

as

Haj Agha Nourbakhsh

1985

Doctor Faustus

as

Doctor Faustus

2018

Behind the Wall of Silence

as

1997

The Fifth Season

as

2004

Nadhr

as

2001

Saint Mary

as

Zechariah

1991

Bashu, the Little Stranger

as

Naii's husband

1986

Mute Contact

as

Nasser's father

2003

Summit of the Wave

as

2010

Leila's Dream

as

2017

Braille Line

as

Hezar Dastan

as

Matin -o- Saltane

Tehran 11 Car

as

Once Upon a Time

as

Ghodrat

The Engineer Child

as

Baba Esmaeil

The Mokhtar Narrative

as

Saint Mary

as

Zacharia

Production

Crew

Directing