Davood Rashidi ( داوود رشیدی ) was born in Tehran but his father's diplomatic career saw him raised in Turkey and France. He attended university in Geneva and earned a degree in Theater Directing and Acting. He returned to Tehran in 1965 and founded the Emrooz Theater Troupe, which recruited actors and actresses such as Parviz Fannizadeh, Dariush Farhang, Mehdi Hashemi, Fahimeh Rastkar, Siavash Tahmoores, Marzieh Boroomand and Soosan Taslimi. He made his cinematic debut with Escaping the Trap in
... 1972. Rashidi also starred in the period drama Hezar Dastan. Aside from acting and directing, Rashidi is also a film producer. In 2009, he was honored as an Iranian National Treasure in Theater, Film and Television. Biography by IMVBoxDavood Rashidi has been a Actor in some movies:
Leaning on the Wind is about that A young man leaves the sleepy confines of his village and moves to the buzzing capital of Tehran to find a job. He leaves behind his mother and fiancee, promising to return after saving enough money for the wedding. Utterly engrossed in his new life in the capital city, he encounters someone captivating enough to make him almost forget about the life he left behind. However, a shocking announcement brings him back to cold reality. In this film Davood Rashidi collaborates with Amin Hayaei, Kazem Hajir Azad, Laya Zanganeh, Lorik Minassian, Siamak Ashariyun, Merila Zarei, Dariush Farhang, Mohammad Reza Aligholi, Abdollah Eskandari, Hossein Zandbaf, Reza Banki, Mohammadhossein Farahbakhsh, Abdollah Alikhani, Babak Akhavan, Fereydoun Farhoodi, Zohreh Hamidi, Rubik Mansouri, Sasan Bagherpour, Salimeh Rangzan, Tayyeb Sherafati, Shokat Daneshvar.
Ekbatan is about that Absorbing social street drama by Mehrshad Karkhani, which is freely adapted from the 1971 Jalal Moghadam film "Escape from the Trap." When Alborz gets out of prison, he goes off in search of a peaceful life in the city. Yet living within the high walls of the Ekbatan Apartment Complex in West Tehran, he can’t seem to find it. Soon enough he finds himself caught up in new criminal activities, and must face a deadly situation before he can be free of them. In this film Davood Rashidi collaborates with Sahar Ghoreishi, Pourandokht Mahiman, Sorush Sehhat, Shahed Ahmadloo, Mehrshad Karkhani, Hassan Ayoubi, Sattar Oraki, Roya Sharif, Mazdak Mirabedini, Ali Ebrahimi, Mahin Navidi, Alireza Alavian, Seyyed Mohsen Jahed, Mani Heydari, Alireza Ghaffari Nejad, Ali Hamid Nejad.
The Musketeer is about that When an attempted breakout of a prisoner ends in mass bloodshed, a power struggle erupts between the lawmen and a group of civilians in a rural province. As hostilities between the two sides slowly escalate, the animosity felt by the rebel leader towards his enemies slowly grows. Violence only begets more violence as a brutal attack is met with an act of revenge. Bloody crime drama from Jamshid Heidari. In this film Davood Rashidi collaborates with Ahoo Kheradmand, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Majid Mozaffari, Mehdi Ahmadi, Enayat Bakhshi, Mehdi Fakhimzadeh, Hossein Kasbian, Nemat Haghighi, Fereydoun Ghovanloo, Jamshid Heydari, Faramarz Badrampour, Mojtaba Mirzadeh, Tooraj Mehrzad, Farhad Mohabbat, Hossein Shahab, Rubik Mansouri, Ali Shoaei, Ezzatollah Ramezanifar, Ahmad Behrouzi, Khosrow Amir Sadeghi, Manouchehr Afsari, Reza Mohajer, Naser Bahram Pour, Varoozh Karapetian, Mahmood Zaribaf, Abbas Hekmat Ara.
Kamalolmolk is about that The movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamol ol Molk, and his relationship with various kings... In this film Davood Rashidi collaborates with Ali Nasirian, Ezzatolah Entezami, Jahangir Forouhar, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Leila Hatami, Esmail Mohammadi, Sirus Ebrahimzadeh, Manouchehr Hamedi, Ali Hatami, Aziz Saati, Eshagh Khanzadi, Mehrdad Fakhimi, Mousa Afshar, Farhad Fakhreddini, Jalal Moayerian, Parviz Pour Hosseini, Akbar Doodkar, Ahmad Amiri, Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, Hossein Ghafoori, Soroush Khalili, Hooshang Beheshti, Abbas Mokhtari, Ahmad Kashani, Najaf Ali Hadi, Mohammad Varshochi, Ahmad Nasr, Reza Arefan, Hassan Boloor, Hossein Ranginvand, Kazem Shirin Sokhan, Kazem Shabani.
Davood Rashidi has been a Producer in some movies:
The Unfinished Song is about that Unfinished Song stars Ali-Reza Anoushfar as Farhad, a young musicologist who returns to his birthplace to record and preserve the region's traditional folk songs. When he gets there, he discovers that of the region's once-rich musical tradition, only a few songs are still performed, mainly because women are banned from singing. He also finds out about a woman named Heyran (Ghogha Bayat) who has been imprisoned for that very reason and he becomes determined to find her and record her voice. His meetings with her in jail open up another mystery that connects his family to hers and reveals how her steadfast love of music has doomed her to a life of persecution. In this film Davood Rashidi collaborates with Reza Saeidi, Hossein Soleimani, Mohsen Ghazi Moradi, Kambozia Partovi, Maziar Miri, Ghogha Bayat, Mohammad Reza Darvishi, Hayedeh Safiyari, Hashem Attar, Mehran Malakooti, Hassan Pouya, Jalal Moayerian, Mohammad Hossein Ghasemi, Asghar Nejad-Imani, Marzieh Boroomand, Maliheh Nazari, Alireza Anoushfar.
Line of Fire is about that A group of five Iranian rangers enter Iraq for a cross-border operation. At the very beginning of their work, they encounter an Iraqi group that is torturing two captives and are forced to engage with them. This conflict endangers their main mission and... In this film Davood Rashidi collaborates with Ahmad Najafi, Siamak Atlasi, Nadia Deldar Golchin, Ali Sajadi Hosseini, Mohammad Reza Aligholi, Hossein Maleki, Rouhollah Emami, Ali Allahyari, Nazi Heshmati, Jamshid Jahanzadeh, Mohammad Heydari, Reza Safaei Pour, Hamid Taleghani, Ali Tavakolnia, Reza Rad, Farid Sajjadi Hosseini, Hossein Tavakkolnia, Hossein Molla Ghasemi, Arash Sajjadi Hosseini, Gholamreza Faramarzian, Alireza Raeisi, Akbar Azfarniyam, Mohammad Foghani, Ezzatollah Jamei Nadooshan.
Fishery is about that Hoxha Mammed (Davood Rashidi) is suspected by government officials and then head of fisheries over past life issues and revelations against a former fisheries chief. In this film Davood Rashidi collaborates with Ahmad Ghadakchian, Mehri Vadadian, Kioomars Malek Motiee, Abdollah Eskandari, Hossein Maleki, Jamshid Alvandi, Mahin Shahabi, Majid Eskandari, Ahmad Hashemi, Javad Golpaygani, Reza Mirlohi, Hossein Shahab, Ali Allahyari, Ali Shoaei, Abbas Ghajar, Jalal Pishvaeeyan, Kanan Kiani, Arezou Shahabi, Afsaneh Bahrami, Farzaneh Bahrami, Hassan Mosayebi, Mansour Tehrani, Mohammad Balish Mazandarani.
Other films are:
Once Upon a Time in Tehran, Chrysanthemum, The Inner Beast, Award, Datura, Special Inspector, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Path of Glory, The Exam, Swallow, Sentenced to Death, The Border, The Rise of Explosion, Vultures Die, Mr. Hiroglif, Bitter Cold, Passing the Trap, Too Big, Hidden Games, The Ban, Shimr, Redemption, The House of Spider, Beehive, Akbar's Passage, Escape from the Trap, Hell + Me, The Devotee, Howff of Anger, The Rooster, Rape, Meeting the Parrot, Doubt, Flags of Kaveh's Castle, Another Morning
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