Gholam-Reza Sarkub

Gholam-Reza Sarkub — Biography

Gholam-Reza Sarkub was an Iranian film actor and director who worked in cinema from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. He is best remembered for Masoud Kimiai's Gheysar, a film ranked among the classics of Iranian cinema, in which he played Rahim Ab-mangol.

The busiest stretch of his career falls between 1969 and 1973. After Gheysar he played Abbas in Wood Pigeon, Abdollah in The Dagger, Ahmad in Ali Bi Gham and a butcher in Baba Shamal. Moride Hagh, The Owner of Hell, Retaliation, Trees Die Standing, Kaafar, Illegal and Holoo-ye poost-kande are also on his filmography, and Khan Nayeb from 1978 is one of his later known credits.

Born in Isfahan, in 1931 by the usual reckoning, he died in London on 15 February 2021. His wife, Simin Sarkub, works in sound.