Mansour Sepehrnia

Mansour Sepehrnia — Biography

Iranian film actor Mansour Sepehrnia appeared in more than thirty films between the 1950s and the mid-1970s, mostly light comedies and adventure pictures. Besides acting, he is also credited as a producer and writer. Born in Isfahan in 1930, he lives in California in the United States.

In his first years in cinema he appeared in films such as A Girl from Shiraz (1954), Khoon va sharaf and Crossroad of Events (1955). The first film made by the comedy troupe he formed with Mohammad Motevaslani and Garsha Raoufi was Storm in Our Town (1958), directed by Samuel Khachikian, in which Sepehrnia played Soosool.

The 1960s were his most productive decade: Hell Under My Foot (1964), Seh Ta Bezan Bahador (1965), Se Naghola dar Japon (1966) and A Man in the Cage, then Alibaba, Kooh Zad and Pesaran Alaedi'n (1967), and Riccardo and Velgardha (1968). He played Torab in Tatilat-e dash esmal (1969), and The Golden Palace, Three Escapees and Desert Ghoul also belong to that year. The 1970s brought Fadime, Ölüm Fermanı, A Suitcase Full of Sex (as Mansour), Se delavar and Prodigies; in Mashti Mamdali's Car (1974) he played the character Mashti Mamdali.