Houshang Beheshti

Houshang Beheshti — Biography

Houshang Beheshti (هوشنگ بهشتی) was an Iranian actor who worked in film, television and theatre. He is best remembered for the lead role in Hatam-e Taei and for playing Boyook Sardari in The Thief in Black. He was born in Tehran, studied at the Iran University of Art in Tehran, and died in Tehran on 1 November 1991.

His earliest known film is Return to Life (1957), in which he played Massoud. The bulk of his filmography falls in the 1960s: A Traveler from Heaven (1963), Hatam-e Taei (1966), Beggars of Tehran, Iman, Kooh Zad and Daash Ahmad were made in that decade, and in The Round Mill he played Nezamolmolk. In 1968, besides The Thief in Black, he played Mohebbifar in Velgardha. Toward the end of the decade came Golden Hearts, A World Full of Hope and Mojeze-ye ghalbha; in the following years he appeared in The World Is Mine (1971) and Sacrifice myself for all the beauties (1973).