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Hossain Sabzian was an actor, known for Close-Up (1990), Trial (2003) and Kanoon (2015). He died on 29 September 2006 in Tehran, Iran.

Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (17 May 1900 - 3 June 1989), also known as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which saw the overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the end of the Persian monarchy. Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's first supreme leader, a position created in the constitution of the Islamic Republic as the highest-ranking political and religious authority of the nation, which he held until his death. Most of his period in power was taken up by the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988. He was succeeded by Ali Khamenei on 4 June 1989.

A former photographer, he turned to directing short subjects in the late 40s, soon acquiring an international reputation for the poetic quality of his short and medium-length films involving the fantasy world of children. Both his White Mane (1953) and The Red Balloon (1956) received a grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival, the latter also winning an American Academy Award. In the early 60s he turned to feature length films with considerably less success, then retreated to documentary shorts. He was killed in a helicopter crash while shooting a documentary near Teheran. That film, The Lovers' Wind (1978), a visually stunning helicopter tour of Iran, was later edited from his notes and was nominated for an Oscar as best feature documentary for the Academy Award ceremonies of 1979.

Abbas Ali Hatami was born in Tehran, Iran in 1944. He graduated from the College of Dramatic Arts and began his professional career as a writer of short TV screenplays and also as a playwright. Among his plays are: The Demon and the Bald Hassan, Adam and Eve, The Fisherman's Story, City of Oranges, Talisman and Silk. He began his professional film career in 1970 by writing and directing Hassan, the Bald (1970). In the following years, he developed a personal style that was characterized by melodious dialogue, traditional Iranian ambiance created through architecture and set design. His last film, World Champion Takhti, remained unfinished because of his death in 1996 due to cancer.

Mohamad Ali Fardin was born in 1930 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor and director, known for The Story of Night (1973), King of the Hearts (1968) and Hatam Taee (1966). He died on 6 April 2000 in Tehran, Iran.

Naser Malek Motiee was born on 29 March 1930 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor and director, known for A Perfect Gentleman (1965), Runaway Millionaire (1966) and Gheisar (1969). He died on 25 May 2018 in Tehran, Iran.

Mohamad Ali Keshavarz was born on 15 April 1930 in Isfahan, Iran. He was an actor, known for Chess of the Wind (1976), Wolves (1988) and The imperilled (1983). He was married to Mona Taheri. He died on 14 June 2020 in Tehran, Iran.

Iraj Ghaderi was born in 1935 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor and director, known for Leilaj (1966), Sam and Nargess (2000) and Claws in the Dust (1997). He was married to Kobra Etminan. He died on 6 May 2012 in Tehran, Iran.

Farugh Farrokhzad was primarily a poet. Indeed, she is regarded as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century in Iran, which has a millennium of poetic tradition behind it. Although she only made one film, the 22 minute so-called documentary "The House is Black", this work is generally seen as the crucial precursor of the Iranian New Wave.

Davoud Rashidi was born on 16 July 1933 in Teheran, Persia. He was an actor and producer, known for The Unfinished Song (2001), The Exam (2002) and Escape from the Trap (1971). He was married to Ehteram Boroumand. He died on 26 August 2016 in Tehran, Iran.

Forouzan (also spelled Foroozan) was born in Bandar-e Anzali, Iran. She started her career by dubbing films. Her first movie was Sahel-e Entezar. She acted in many popular Iranian films and also worked with visionary directors of the Mowj-e Now, such as Dariush Mehrjui (Dayere-ye Mina) and Ali Hatami (Baba Shamal). She started her cinematic career as a voice-over actress. In 1964 she starred in Siamak Yasemi's Sahele Entezar, but it was Ganje Qarun, another film by Yasemi, that made her very famous. She co-starred in this film with Fardin. After Ganj-e Qarun Fardin and Forouzan made a golden cinematic couple and co-starred in some of the highest-grossing films of the era, known as Persian Films or Film Farsi (in Persian: Filme Farsi). Persian Film was the popular genre of movies produced in Iran before the Iranian revolution of 1979. Siamak Yasemi, Iraj Ghaderi, Shapur Gharib and Fereydun Goleh were some of the other famous directors that she collaborated with. After the 1979 revolution Forouzan was banned from playing in movies and grew more and more isolated. She rarely conducted interviews and died on 24 January 2016 in Tehran. After Forouzan's death, Persian-language websites and forums dedicated posts and articles in her memory. Her popularity remained intact despite not having acted in a new film since 1978.

Tony Zarindast was born in 1934 in Tabriz, Iran. He was a director and writer, known for Cat in the Cage (1978), The Guns and the Fury (1982) and Hardcase and Fist (1989). He died on 29 November 2016 in Tehran, Iran.

Saeed Kangarani was born in 1954 in Tehran, Iran. His best-known role was the role of the main actor/ Narrator Saeed in Daaee Jan Napoleon series aired in 1976. His excellent performance in Dar Emtedad Shab along with Googoosh is worth mentioning. For years he was mostly involved in TV series until the recent movie "Ezdevaj be sabke Irani" in 2006.

Ezzatolah Entezami (also spell Ezatollah Entezami, born 1924 in Tehran, Iran) is an award-winning Iranian actor. Graduated from theater and cinema school in Hanover, Germany in 1958, Entezami started his career on stage in 1941. He has been acting in movies since 1969. His debut performance in Darius Mehrjui's admired classic film, The Cow(Gaav), received the Golden Hugo in Chicago International Film Festival in 1971. He shined in the role of a naive villager who cannot endure the death of his beloved cow and starts to believe that he is the cow himself.

He is known as one of the most prominent actors in Iranian cinema and has been labeled as the greatest actor in history of the cinema of Iran. He has worked with most of the prominent Iranian film directors, including Darius Mehrjui (eight films), Ali Hatami (four films), Nasser Taqvaee, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Behrouz Afkhami and Rakhshan Bani-Etemad. He has been awarded the Crystal Simorgh for the Best Actor twice from the International Fajr Film Festival, for Grand Cinema and The Day of Angel.

His work and accomplishments were recognized in October 2006 at the Iran cultural center in Paris.

Khosro Shakibai was born on 27 March 1944 in Tehran, Iran. He was an actor and writer, known for Hamoun (1990), Unruled Paper (2002) and Night Bus (2007). He was married to Parvin Kooshiar and Tania Johari. He died on 18 July 2008 in Tehran, Iran.

Jamshid Mashayekhi is a celebrated Iranian actor and an iconic figure of Iranian cinema. Mashayekhi began professional acting on stage in 1957. His first feature film role was Brick and Mirror(1965, Ebrahim Golestan). After a four-year break, he acted in The Cow (1969, Darius Mehrjui) and Kaiser(Qeysar) (1969, Masoud Kimiai). Mashayekhi commonly appears as an elderly grandfather because of his white hair and charismatic face and figure. He received a best performance award for The Grandfather (1985, Majid Gharizadeh) from the First Festival of Non-aligned Countries in North Korea.

Born 1923 in Tabriz to a family of Armenian immigrants. Khachikian's father escaped the Armenian Genocide in 1915 and settled in Tabriz. His mother admired cinema and the arts and often took her children to the theater. Samuel Khachikian published his first poem "The Prison" in the Armenian newspaper Alik when he was nine. Five years later, he gave his first stage performance in Tabriz in a play titled "Seville". He completed his education in History and Journalism, and wrote eight plays which went on stage not only in different cities of Iran, but also in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Greece.

Khachikian made his first film in 1953, titled "The Return". He was among the first and few directors who used the decoupage technique on the film set, preparing the complete shooting script in advance. The success of his works attracted a lot of attention to the advantages of this filmmaking approach. As an innovative filmmaker, he turned the production of murder mysteries into a popular new wave in the Iranian filmmaking. He made the first ever movie trailer in the history of Iranian cinema for the movie "A Girl from Shiraz" in 1954. Some of his films such as "The Strike" and "The Eagles" were box office hits of their times.

Samuel's son Edwin Khachikian is a director in Tehran, Iran. Samuel's brother Souren Khachikian was also heavily involved in the production of his films. Souren's grandson Ara H. Keshishian is working as a film editor in Hollywood.

His 1956 film A Party in Hell was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival.

He died on October 22, 2001 at the age of seventy-eight.

Aref Lorestani was born on 4 February 1972 in Kermanshah, Iran. He was an actor, known for Laugh Bomb (2008), Equation (2003) and Baba Man Zan Begir Nistam (2007). He died on 15 April 2017 in Tehran, Iran.

Nosratollah Karimi was born on 22 December 1924 in Isfahan, Iran. He was an actor and director, known for The Interim Husband (1971), The Triple Bed (1972) and The Carriage Driver (1971). He was married to Parvin Teymouri. He died on 3 December 2019 in Tehran, Iran.

Mahmoud Bahrami was born in 1937 in Tuyserkan, Iran. He was an actor, known for Morgh-e tokhm-tala (1972), 2001 Inventor (1991) and The Suitor (1972). He died on 6 July 2010 in Tehran, Iran.

Parviz Poorhosseini was an Iranian film, theater and television Actor 11 September 1941 - 27 November 2020 in Tehran, Iran. He died of COVID-19 at age 79, in Firoozgar Hospital in Tehran. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in performance arts from Tehran University's Faculty of Fine arts. Poorhosseini had appeared in more than 35 movies, over 70 TV shows and 60 theater performances.

Farimah Farjami was born on 8 May 1950 in Tehran, Iran. She was an actress, known for Narges (1992), The Last Act (1991) and The Lead (1989). She died on 30 June 2023 in Tehran, Iran.

Kambuzia Partovi was born on 8 February 1956 in Rasht, Iran. He was a writer and director, known for Border Café (2005), The Truck (2018) and Naneh Lala va bacheharesh (1997). He was married to Nasrin Moradi and Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy. He died on 24 November 2020 in Tehran, Iran.

Farajollah Salahshoor was an Iranian film director. He was born in 1952 in Qazvin. He began his career as an actor but later he directed several popular religious films and TV series including Ayoub e Payambar (film), The Men of Angelos (about Seven Sleepers) and Yousuf e Payambar (film). He had a conservative view and believed in Islamic cinema. He died of lung cancer on 27 February 2016.

Iloosh Khoshabe was born in 1932 in Iran. He was an actor, known for The Seven Tasks of Ali Baba (1962), The Invincible Brothers Maciste (1964) and Hercules, Samson & Ulysses (1963). He died in 2012 in Tehran, Iran.